by Sadrud-DinZaakiraL | Jun 23, 2011 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was the first official black regiment in the Confederate Army. The Guard was formed when Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore accepted into the state militia a regiment of approximately 1,100 free African American men. When Governor...
by GenatossioNoah | Jun 23, 2011 | African American History, People
James Pierpont Comer, a leading black child psychiatrist and educational reformer, was born into a working class family in East Chicago, Indiana on September 25, 1934. Although his parents, Maggie and Hugh Comer, had little education themselves, they strongly...
by Sadrud-DinZaakiraL | Jun 23, 2011 | African American History, People
Bryant Gumbel was the first African American co-host of the National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) The Today Show and is well-known as a broadcast journalist and sportscaster. Gumbel was born in 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Rhea Alice and Richard Dunbar Gumbel, a...
by Sadrud-DinZaakiraL | Jun 22, 2011 | African American History, People
Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., NASA’s first permanent Black administrator, was born to Charles Frank and Ethel Bolden, both teachers, on August 19th, 1946, in Columbia, South Carolina. He rose to the rank of Major General in the United States Marine Corps and was a...
by CarverGaytonPhD | Jun 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Civil rights attorney Wiley Austin Branton Sr. was born on December 13, 1923 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. His father, Leo Andrew Branton, ran a family-owned taxi cab business while his mother, Pauline Wiley, was a school teacher. Branton attended segregated elementary,...
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