by MikellRobert | Nov 30, 2016 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131 former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to...
by FikesRobert | Nov 30, 2016 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Union Transportation Company was chartered on August 29, 1905, in response to Tennessee’s newly-imposed streetcar segregation law (July 1905) and a black boycott of the city’s main streetcar transportation system, the Nashville Transit Company. The company was...
by MikellRobert | Nov 30, 2016 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was a civil rights pioneer in Wisconsin. She was the first African American and the first woman to serve as an elected official and as a judge in the state. Phillips was born one of three...
by MikellRobert | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
Ilhan Omar is a Somali American politician from Minnesota. She is the director of policy and initiative of the Women Organizing Women Network, which encourages women from East Africa to take on civic and political leadership roles. In 2016, she was elected a...
by MikellRobert | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
King Virgil Cheek Jr. is a lifelong educator, lawyer, and author, who, along with older brother, James Edward Cheek, served as president of the historic black college, Shaw University. King Cheek was born on May 26, 1937, in Weldon, North Carolina. His mother, Lee...
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