by HornsbyAlton | Mar 25, 2018 | African American History, People
George Henry Brown, Jr., the first African American appointed to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court, was born on July 16, 1939 and grew up in in Memphis, Tennessee. Brown’s father Alfred was a car cleaner for the Illinois Central Railroad, and his mother Sara was a...
by ErnstAlina | Mar 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Eulalie de Mandeville was born in 1774 in New Orleans, Louisiana, from the alliance between the prosperous French nobleman, Pierre Philippe Mandeville de Marigny, and one of his slaves, Marie-Jeanne. Eulalie was freed by her paternal grandparents in 1779 and was...
by HsuAustin | Mar 25, 2018 | Global African History, People
Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, was born on March 8, 1937, in Gasiza, in the Gisenyi province of what was at this time the Ruanda-Urundi mandate, controlled by Belgium. Habyarimana was an Hutu, whose parents, Jean-Baptiste Ntibazilikana and Suzanne...
by PassannanteAugust | Mar 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Urban gardening advocate Karen Washington was born in 1956 in New York City, New York and has lived in New York state all of her life. Washington attended Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), earning a earning a bachelor’s of applied science with honors...
by MaguireLea | Mar 25, 2018 | Global African History, People
Dr. Manuel Cuesta Morúa is a Cuban dissident leader, a scholar, and a political activist. He was born on December 31, 1962 in Havana, Cuba where he is still based. He claims ancestry from Martín Morúa Delgado, an Afrocuban leader and first black Cuban senator, on his...
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