by MartinezEligioJr | Jul 28, 2017 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Following emancipation in 1865, former slaves across the South detached themselves from white-controlled congregations and established independent churches. In Fort Worth, Texas, historic Mt. Gilead Baptist Church was one of those new congregations. Over time it would...
by TidwellJohn | Jul 23, 2017 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Between the years of 1942 and 1944 around fifteen thousand blacks and fifty thousand whites were recruited to the Manhattan/ Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. The federal government required government contractor, DuPont, to keep the number of black...
by KatzWilliamL | Jul 23, 2017 | African American History, People
Born Arch Colson Whitehead on November 6, 1969, novelist Colson Whitehead spent his formative years in Manhattan, New York, with his parents, Arch and Mary Anne Whitehead, who owned a recruiting firm, and three siblings. During childhood, he said he preferred reading...
by FikesRobert | Jul 23, 2017 | African American History, People
Haben Girma, both blind and deaf, is a disability rights advocate and attorney who became the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School in Massachusetts when she graduated with a Juris Doctor degree (JD) in 2013. Girma was born on July 29, 1988, in Oakland,...
by AdrienneBoner | Jul 23, 2017 | African American History, People
In June 2017, Lynne Patton, Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation and a senior assistant to Eric Trump, was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Region II office, which manages the department’s...
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