by SaadehLisaTompkins | Aug 31, 2013 | African American History, Perspectives
New York historian Walt Bachman introduces Northern Slave, Black Dakota, his new biography of Joseph Godfrey, an African American who was born into slavery in the free territory that became Minnesota, fled from abusive masters to seek refuge among the Dakota Indians,...
by GrayJoyceann | Aug 31, 2013 | African American History, People
Bill Powell was the first African American to design, construct, and own a professional golf course in the United States. In 1946, Bill and his wife Marcella did most of the landscaping by hand when they transformed a 78-acre dairy farm into a nine-hole golf course...
by SgambelluriSabrianna | Aug 28, 2013 | African American History, People
Korla Pandit, the first African American to have his own television show, was a composer, organist, and pianist who starred in TV’s first all-music series. He was known as the godfather of “Exotica,” a musical genre that became popular in the 1950s. In order to garner...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Aug 19, 2013 | African American History, People
Veteran publicist Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African American to serve as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, followed the path of her pioneering sibling as a top-tier executive in the Hollywood motion picture industry. Ashley A. Boone...
by BluefordDoloresIrene | Aug 16, 2013 | Global African History, People
Samuel “Sam” Sharpe (or “Daddy Sharpe”) led a rebellion which led to the end of legal slavery in the British colony of Jamaica. Records of who his parents were have been lost. Sharpe was a slave of an English attorney and namesake who practiced in Montego Bay....
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