by KromSteve | Dec 21, 2016 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Benjamin Baker” Charles Decatur (C.D.) Brooks, field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 24, 1930, the tenth child of Marvin and Mattie Brooks. Brooks was raised on a...
by FikesRobert | Dec 21, 2016 | African American History, People
Jewel Limar Prestage was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in political science at an American university. Prestage was born on August 12, 1931, in Hutton, Louisiana, to Brudis Leroy Limar Sr. and Sallie Bell Johnson Limar. At a young age, her family...
by QuinteroMaria | Dec 12, 2016 | African American History, People
Daisy Tibbs Dawson, a Seattle, Washington peace activist and educator, is the only African American to be memorialized in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbs was born in Toney, Alabama on July 27, 1924 to Calvin and Martha Tibbs. At a very...
by PitzerRobert | Dec 8, 2016 | Global African History, People
Emmanuel Abu Kissi, a prominent convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was born in 1938 in Abomosu, Ghana. He married Benedicta Elizabeth Bamfo in June 1970, and they are the parents of seven children. Kissi attended medical school in...
by FikesRobert | Dec 8, 2016 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: New America” With his 2012 election, twenty-two-year-old Michael Tubbs became the youngest city council member in Stockton, California’s history and one of the youngest elected officials in the nation. He represented the 6th District of...
Recent Comments