Joshua R. Vernon
Articles by Joshua R. Vernon
Ralph Harold Metcalfe (1910-1978)
Ralph Metcalfe, was an outstanding U.S. sprinter, track coach, and politician born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Chicago, Illinois....
Ava Speese Day (1912-1988)
Born in 1912, Ava Speese (Day) traveled with her family in 1915 to homestead in Cherry County, Nebraska. Taking advantage...
Allen Allensworth (1842-1914)
Born into slavery in Kentucky in 1842, Allen Allensworth gained his freedom in the Civil War when the Forty-fourth Illinois...
Quincy Jones Jr. (1933- )
Composer, conductor, trumpeter, producer, and civil rights activist Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., who composed scores for 33 major motion pictures,...
Michael J. Jordan (1963- )
Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association (NBA) superstar, was born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of James...
Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
Daniel Hale Williams III was a pioneering surgeon best known for performing in 1893 one of the world’s first successful...
Alexander Twilight (1795-1857)
Reputed to be the first African American in the United States to graduate from college, Alexander Twilight was born on...
Andrew Bryan (1737-1812)
First named First Colored Baptist Church and located in Savannah, Georgia, First African Baptist Church traces its roots to December...
Andrew “Rube” Foster (1879-1930)
Andrew Rube Foster was born in Calvert, Texas, on September 17, 1879. The son of Andrew and Sarah Foster, Rube...
E. Arnold Bertonneau (1834-1912)
Arnold Bertonneau was a New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and is best known as one of the first African...