by RafaelVicente | Mar 20, 2016 | African American History, People
The physicist and inventor George Carruthers, known for inventing the ultraviolet camera and spectrograph, was born on October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Carruthers is the oldest of four siblings. Carruthers’s father, George Carruthers, Sr., died when Carruthers...
by JonasRay | Mar 20, 2016 | African American History, People
Marvin Ellison is the current CEO of Lowe’s, a hardware and home improvement store chain, since July 2018 and the first African American to hold that post. He was previously President and CEO of JCPenney, where he was also the first African American head of that...
by PharrGwendolyn | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Sam Martin Bruce was born on December 7, 1915, in Houston, Texas. Bruce’s father died when he was a young boy. His mother remarried, and the family relocated to Seattle, Washington. In 1933, Bruce graduated from Garfield High School and soon enrolled at North Carolina...
by RafaelVicente | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
The graphic designer George Elliot Olden, known for his work in television and advertising, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 13, 1920. Olden’s father, James Clarence Olden, was a Baptist minister, and his mother, Sylvia Ward Olden, was a music teacher....
by Fearn-BanksKathleen | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Reverend Joseph Harrison Jackson was the pastor of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois (1941–1990), the longest-serving president of the National Baptist Convention (1953-1982), and a leading conservative voice during the Civil Rights era. To this day, Rev....
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