by MikellRobert | Sep 28, 2016 | African American History, People
James Herbert Cameron Jr. was a civil rights activist responsible for founding three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He later established America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cameron is also the...
by FikesRobert | Sep 28, 2016 | Global African History, People
William Richard Tolbert Jr. was the twentieth president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980, when he was killed in a coup led by then Liberian Army Sergeant Samuel Doe. Tolbert was trained as a civil servant when he entered Liberia’s House of Representatives in 1943 for the...
by FikesRobert | Sep 28, 2016 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Paul Jennings was a personal servant and slave to President James Madison during and after his White House years. After buying his freedom in 1845 from Daniel Webster, Jennings in 1865 published the first White House...
by MikellRobert | Sep 28, 2016 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Wormley House, ca. 1884 “Image Ownership: Public Domain” Just one block away from President’s Square, now Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C. stood the Wormley House, one of the most prominent private hotels and social clubs of its time, and the only...
by FikesRobert | Sep 28, 2016 | African American History, People
Steve LaTreal McNair was an American football quarterback who played for the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen years with two teams, the Houston/Tennessee Oilers, which were renamed the Tennessee Titans, and the Baltimore Ravens. McNair was born on February...
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