by Tori Davis | Aug 17, 2019 | African American History, People
In 1968 Dorothy Bolden transformed domestic workers’ rights by founding the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America (NDWUA). Employed as a domestic for more than 40 years, Bolden created a union to promote their interests. The NDWUA helped domestic...
by Deborah Hogue | Aug 13, 2019 | African American History, People
Eugene Moszee was a civil rights activist in Seattle during the 1940s. Born in Floresville, Texas, in 1914, the first of ten children of illiterate farm laborers, Moszee moved to Seattle during the 1930s and by 1937 owned and operated his own Mobile gas station on...
by KromSteve | Aug 12, 2019 | African American History, People
Eri L. Barr, the first Seventh-day Adventist minister of color, was born to free African American parents in Reading, Vermont, on May 23, 1814. He had five siblings, three of whom did not survive their teenage years. Barr studied English at Wesleyan Academy in...
by Walton-RajiAngela | Aug 12, 2019 | African American History, People
Marion William Dial was the first African American elected to a city-wide office in Missouri. Dial was born in Chetopa, Kansas, on June 27, 1903. After receiving bachelors and master’s degrees from the Kansas State Teachers College (now Pittsburg State University),...
by Arnissa Hopkins | Aug 4, 2019 | African American History, People
Antonio Ramon Delgado is an attorney, business owner, former entertainer and the first person of African American and Hispanic descent to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of New York. Delgado was appointed to the post by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on May 3, 2022...
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