by HansonMarianne | Jan 28, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first black church in New Mexico and was organized during the state’s territorial period. Although New Mexico Territory had a few slaves before the Civil War, African Americans began arriving in the region...
by BrencWillie | Jan 28, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first African American church in Wisconsin, was founded in Milwaukee as the First African Methodist Episcopal Church by Ezekiel Gillespie and seven other men and women. Gillespie desired to establish a “Church of...
by FikesRobert | Jan 27, 2014 | Global African History, People
Far better known as a popular and versatile actor in Italy and parts of Europe than in his native country, the United States, John Kitzmiller was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, on December 4, 1913, one of two children of John B. and Mary E. Kitzmiller. In his youth...
by OffenbacherElisheva | Jan 26, 2014 | Global African History, People
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu, a key leader in the African National Congress (ANC), and confidant and mentor to Nelson Mandela, was born on May 18, 1912 in the village of Qutubeni in the municipality of Engcobo, to Alice Mase Sisulu, a Xhosa domestic worker. His father,...
by GutierrezVenableCecilia | Jan 26, 2014 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church was the first African American Catholic Church in the United States. The building, located on the corner of Calvert and Pleasant Street in Baltimore, Maryland, was originally constructed in 1836 for the congregation of the First...
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