by BradleyAnders | Mar 31, 2018 | African American History, People
Louis Sturns was the first African American to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court. Sturns was born to Robert L. Sterns and Emma Sturns on August 6, 1949 in Henderson, Texas, located in Rusk County. He was raised in Rusk...
by BrianHoffman | Mar 29, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Louis Shepard, PhD. is an author and chemist. He is best known for opening doors of opportunity for faculty and students in science-related fields at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Beginning in 1983 he became an advocate for inclusion of...
by ErnstAlina | Mar 29, 2018 | African American History, People
Leroy Nicholas (“Nicky”) Barnes, who was born in 1933 in Harlem, was one of the most powerful New York drug dealers of the 1970s. His career as a drug lord began in 1965 when he was imprisoned for heroin consumption. While in Green Haven Correctional Facility in...
by BlockWilliam | Mar 29, 2018 | African American History, People
Joseph Neal, the first African American elected to the Nevada state senate, was born in Mounds, Louisiana on July 28, 1935. He attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and graduated in 1963 with a B.A. in political science and history as well as doing...
by QuarsteinJohn | Mar 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, 1823. At an early age, Morris had some formal education at Master Dodge’s School in Salem. ...
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