by MaguireLea | Mar 1, 2018 | African American History, Events
Hartford, Connecticut in the late 1960’s was a city immersed in racial unrest, class disputes, and activism. The city was a dichotomy between the ghetto, predominantly black or Puerto Rican and impoverished, in the North End and the South End, white and middle or...
by PassannanteAugust | Mar 1, 2018 | African American History, People
Flemmie Kittrell was born on December 25, 1904 to James and Alice Kittrell in Henderson, North Carolina. Kittrell attended Hampton Institution in Virginia (which has since changed to Hampton University) and received her bachelors of science in 1928. Kittrell’s...
by ForemanCheyenne | Mar 1, 2018 | African American History, People
Robert Glass, the Connecticut Supreme Court’s first African American member, was born on November 28, 1922, to M.E. Jackson and Isiah Glass in Wetumpka, Alabama. His parents were young and quite poor when he was born so they were not able to pay for his schoolbooks,...
by ChinyeluTichaona | Mar 1, 2018 | African American History, Events
Fewer than half of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Black population remained in the city after the 1829 white riots. Most had left. Many of the 1,100 who stayed were unusually poor, unable to finance emigration to safer places such as surrounding towns, farther west, or to Canada....
by HenigAdam | Mar 1, 2018 | African American History, People
Brigadier General Rufus Smith was the first African American to be appointed a General in the Ohio National Guard. He was also the first black Commander of the 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Personnel Management...
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