by GriffisMatthew | Sep 30, 2017 | African American History, People
Philando Divall Castile, killed in a controversial police shooting in 2016, was born on July 16, 1983, in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Saint Paul Central High School in 2001 and got a job working for the Saint Paul Public School District from 2002 until his...
by MikellRobert | Sep 30, 2017 | African American History, People
Wendell Allen, a 20-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on March 7, 2012, by New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough during a drug raid in that city. Officer Colclough fired a single bullet into Allen’s chest, killing him instantly. Allen was the son of...
by DavisRobert | Sep 30, 2017 | African American History, People
Vasco De Gama Hale, educator, blinded veterans’ association organizer, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) official, was born in Crawford, Mississippi, to Brotop and Jane Hale on February 16, 1915. His father, Brotop, toiled as a...
by YeeShirley | Sep 30, 2017 | African American History, People
On Thursday, March 3, 1910, a Dallas, Texas mob lynched Allen Brooks, a fifty-seven-year-old African American man. His murder was one of a number of lynchings in major Texas cities. Little is known about Brooks’s early life. He was born in either Maryland or Texas...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Sep 30, 2017 | African American History, People
David L. Lewis is a twice Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. He was born on May 25, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to John Henry Lewis, Sr., a Yale Divinity School graduate and college president, and the former Alice Ernestine Bell, a public school math teacher. He...
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