by SluyterAndrew | Jan 30, 2012 | African American History, Perspectives
In the article below Clarence Lang, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas describes his book, Grassroots at the Gateway which explores the changes in 20th Century St. Louis’s political, economic, and social...
by HannahCherylBullock | Jan 29, 2012 | Global African History, People
On October 21, 1945, Madame Eugénie Tell Eboué, the widow of Félix Eboué, former Governor General of French Equatorial Africa, became the first woman of African descent to be elected to the French National Assembly in Paris. Born Eugénie Tell on November 23, 1891 in...
by YaredEphrem | Jan 29, 2012 | African American History, People
Image Ownership: Public Domain Charles Burleigh Purvis, surgeon and medical educator, was instrumental in the development of Howard University’s medical department. On July 2, 1881 Purvis was one of the attending physicians following the assassination of President...
by HannahCherylBullock | Jan 27, 2012 | Events, Global African History
The Brazzaville Conference was organized during the Second World War and took place in Brazzaville, the capital city of the colony of French Equatorial Africa from January 30 to February 8, 1944. The Conference was sponsored by the French Committee of the National...
by YaredEphrem | Jan 27, 2012 | African American History, People
Dr. Lawrence Howland Knox, a noted chemist, was born on September 30, 1906, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to William Jacob and Estella Knox. Knox was one of five children, two girls and three boys, and remarkably, for that time, all of the boys earned PhDs; the...
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