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Aaron Douglas (1898-1979)
Painter and illustrator Aaron Douglas was born in Topeka, Kansas on May 26, 1899 to Aaron Douglas Sr., a baker...
George Henry White (1852-1918)
George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901)...
Ernest William Chambers (1937- )
Ernest William Chambers, Africana intellectual, has lived in the semi-segregated community of North Omaha, Nebraska for his entire life. A...
Franklin Eugene McCain (1941-2014)
Franklin McCain was born on January 3, 1941 in Union County, North Carolina. He grew up in Washington, D.C. but...
Joseph Alfred McNeil (1942- )
One of the four North Carolina Agricultural & Technical freshmen who initiated the Sit-In Movement at Greensboro, North Carolina. A...
Jibreel Khazan/Ezell Blair, Jr. (1941- )
One of the original Greensboro Four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. It is reported that as a nine-year-old...
David Leinail Richmond (1941-1990)
One of the original Greensboro four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins, David Leinail Richmond is often described by...
Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
A politically motivated attack by whites against the city’s leading African American citizens, the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 documents...
Henry Plummer Cheatham (1857-1935)
Born into slavery in Henderson, North Carolina, Henry Cheatham was the child of an enslaved domestic worker about who little...
John Chavis (1763-1838)
John Chavis, early 19th Century minister and teacher, was the first African American to graduate from a college or university...
St. Martin De Porres Club (1947- )
The St. Martin De Porres Club was founded in 1947 by Father John P. Markoe, S.J., a priest, and Creighton...