by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, Places
1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Site of the LaLaurie “Image Ownership: Public Domain” The LaLaurie Mansion, located at 1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous as the site of the torture and murder of a number of enslaved people owned by Marie...
by NielsenEuellA. | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
Calvin “Cal” Fackler Johnson was a businessman and philanthropist known as the wealthiest African American in Tennessee at the time of his death in 1925. Johnson was born enslaved in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October 14, 1844. His father, Cupid Johnson, was owned by...
by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Preston Taylor was an African American businessman, minister, and philanthropist, who, by the early twentieth century, was considered one of the most influential leaders of Nashville, Tennessee’s black community. Taylor...
by NielsenEuellA. | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
Gwendolyn “Gwen” Ifill was a PBS newscaster, author, and American Peabody Award-winning journalist. Ifill was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on September 29, 1955. Her father, Oliver Urcille Ifill Sr., was an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister of Barbadian...
by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, Events
The 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson made segregationist laws permissible anywhere in the United States as long as railroads, streetcars, and other public conveyances provided equal accommodations for blacks and whites. The decision, which served...
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