Herbert G Ruffin II
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Articles by Herbert G Ruffin II
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....
January 13th, 2007
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...
January 17th, 2007
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...
January 17th, 2007
Isaiah T. Montgomery (1847-1924)
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery was an African American leader best known for founding the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi and...
January 17th, 2007
Mound Bayou (1887- )
Mound Bayou was an all-black town in the Yazoo Delta in Northwest Mississippi. It was founded during the spring of...
January 18th, 2007
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, hailed as the Poet Laureate of the Negro Race, was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872. His...
January 18th, 2007
Davis Bend, Mississippi (1865-1887)
Davis Bend, Mississippi was an all-black town near Vicksburg, sometimes referred to as Davis Bend colony. It was a 4,000-acre...
January 18th, 2007
William C. Nell (1816-1874)
William C. Nell was an African American civic activist, abolitionist, and historian. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Nell was...
January 18th, 2007
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr., legendary tennis player, human rights activist, and educator, was born on July 10, 1943, in Richmond,...
January 18th, 2007
Lester Blackwell Granger (1896-1976)
Lester Blackwell Granger was a social worker and civil rights and labor rights activist best known for leading the National...
January 19th, 2007
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Mary McLeod Bethune was a prominent educator, political leader, and social visionary whose early twentieth century activism for Black women...
January 19th, 2007
Kenneth S. [“Kenny”] Washington (1918-1971)
Kenneth S. Washington was one of the first black college football stars on the West Coast and one of two...
January 21st, 2007