by MartinezEligioJr | Apr 28, 2017 | African American History, People
Erma Mozelle Duffy Lewis, the founder of the first African-American community theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, was born February 7, 1926, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Haywood James Duffy and Hazel Mae Calloway Duffy. She was the oldest of eight children and graduated from...
by MikellRobert | Apr 28, 2017 | African American History, People
Jocko Graves was a young African American boy whose service during the American Revolutionary War earned him the commemorative statue, the “lawn jockey.” Graves’s story is a short and tragic one. It begins on Christmas Eve, December of 1776, with General George...
by McClendonIIIJohnH | Apr 16, 2017 | African American History, People
Attorney, civil rights activist, journalist, and historian Roger Wood Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Earl and Helen Jackson Wilkins on March 25, 1932. His father was a business manager for the Kansas City Call newspaper, and his mother was the first...
by RoyLisa | Apr 12, 2017 | African American History, Primary Documents
Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era. There were others including Professor William Hooper Councill, the founder and first president of the Huntsville Normal School which today...
by Natelie Windsor | Apr 6, 2017 | African American History, People
Marvin Perkins is an accomplished recording vocal artist, a sought-after public speaker, and a leader in the effort to correct misunderstanding and incorrect assumptions about Blacks, especially in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Perkins was born in...
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