by Fields-BlackEddaL | Feb 22, 2011 | Global African History, Perspectives
Carnegie Mellon University historian Edda L. Fields Black’s 2008 book, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora, opened a vast new area of diasporic study by linking the cultivation of rice in Africa to the rise of this crucially...
by VanHoutenMatt | Feb 21, 2011 | African American History, People
John Matthew Shippen, Jr. was the first African American professional golfer and known as one of America’s golf pioneers. Shippen achieved this distinction when he competed in the US Open in 1896. John Shippen was born on December 5, 1879 in Long Island, New...
by YeeShirley | Feb 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Historian, educator and clergyman Rev. Miles Mark Fisher was pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina from 1933 to 1965. He published a number of important scholarly works on African American culture and the Baptist missionary movement to...
by HilliardConstance | Feb 21, 2011 | African American History, People
In 2010, retired lieutenant colonel Allen West became the first Black Republican to represent Florida in Congress since Rep. Josiah T. Walls, who served during Reconstruction. Congressman West was born on February 7, 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Herman and Elizabeth...
by KleinAlexander | Feb 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Artist Edward Bannister was a painter who concentrated on pastoral landscape scenes depicting the beauty and serenity of nature. He was the first African American artist to receive a national award. Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada in November...
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