by WilliamsEarl | Jan 20, 2010 | African American History, People
Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph Burnett, a physician, and her mother, Bertha Ball Burnett, a tennis champion. After receiving her A.B., from Howard...
by KastnerBrian | May 21, 2009 | Global African History, Places
In comparison to many countries that have ancient histories spanning over thousands of years, Belize (a small country right below Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula) is a relatively young nation whose history spans only about 370 years. The indigenous Mayan population,...
by BurnettLucy | Jul 2, 2008 | African American History, People
Carl McCall, former comptroller for the State of New York, was the first African American nominated by the Democratic Party for the office of governor. McCall lost the election to Republican incumbent governor George Pataki. As comptroller from 1994 to 2002, McCall...
by VelasquezMaria-Elena | Jun 4, 2008 | African American History, People
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish and his mother was a mulatto. While Robert was technically born free due to manumission laws, he still faced the enormous prejudice against African...
by Rodriquez-EstradaAliciaI | Mar 27, 2007 | African American History, People
Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield had little reason to dream of the life that would eventually become her own. Because of a series of unlikely circumstances and her own relentless efforts she would eventually become known as...
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