by DrousieEmile | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Morton Duncan was an American prosecutor, judge, and the first African-American to serve on the Ohio state Supreme Court. Born on August 24th, 1927, in Urbana, Ohio, Duncan is the son of parents Benjamin Austin and Wanda Brown Duncan. Duncan attended...
by WestRacquel | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
Charleena Lyles was 30 years old and a mother of four who was shot and killed by Seattle Police on June 18, 2017. Lyles was raised in Seattle, Washington. She had a rather difficult childhood as she grew up around drugs and her mother passed away when she was just a...
by MohnStephen | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, Events
On January 9, 1961 two Black students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, entered the University of Georgia campus to register for classes. Their registration was the end of a long court battle to integrate the university that began a decade earlier when another...
by PassannanteAugust | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
Audrey Forbes Manley, who would eventually be acting Surgeon General of the United States, was born in Jackson, Mississippi on March 25, 1934 to Ora Lee Buckhalter Forbes and Jesse Lee Forbes. In 1955, Forbes earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Spelman College...
by WilsonCynthia | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
As a former slave in George Washington’s household, Ona “Oney” Judge is best remembered for her escape to New Hampshire. Born at Mount Vernon, the Washingtons’ Virginia plantation, around 1773 (exact date not known) to an indentured servant named Andrew Judge and a...
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