by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 28, 2023 | African American History, People
Frank S. Greene, Jr. is an inventor, scientist, venture capitalist investor, educator, and the first African American to graduate from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. He is also responsible for developing the world’s fastest microchip in the 1960s....
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 18, 2023 | African American History
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Educator Grace Baxter Fenderson was born on November 2, 1883, in Newark, New Jersey, to James Miller Baxter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pauline Louisa Mars from Brooklyn, New York. Her father was the first Black principal in...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 14, 2023 | African American History
Benjamin F. Hicks is a 19th-century African inventor in Virginia who was born into slavery to Lottie Ricks and an unidentified man in May 1846 in Courtland, Berlin-Ivor District, Southampton County, Commonwealth of Virginia. Three years following his birth in 1849,...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 13, 2023 | African American History
Paul Reginald Jervay Sr. was a journalist and publisher. He was the editor of North Carolina’s oldest newspaper for African Americans, The Carolinian. His grandfather was William R. Jervay, a formerly enslaved person who served in South Carolina’s State...
by | Mar 7, 2023 | African American History, People
Carol Johnson-Dean was the first black woman superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools. She held that post from 1997 to 2003. Johnson-Dean was born 1948 to Mrs. Willie Rawls and Buddy Rawls. She grew up in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee about 50 miles...
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