by AyodaleBraimah | Oct 21, 2017 | African American History, People
In 2007, Ambassador John L. Withers II, a second-generation diplomat, was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as ambassador to Albania. Withers was born in 1948 in Guilford, North Carolina, to John L. Withers, Sr. and Daisy P. Withers. His father had...
by FletcherPhyllis | Oct 2, 2017 | African American History, People
John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia, on December 14, 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles,...
by BaskinAndrew | Jul 22, 2017 | African American History, People
William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six, posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave. Although June 29...
by FikesRobert | Jan 25, 2017 | Global African History, People
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, more commonly known as E.R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat. He was best known for his stories of social conditions and...
by MikkelsenJrEdward | Feb 3, 2016 | African American History
William E. Kennard is a telecommunications expert, attorney, and American diplomat. He was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 19, 1957, to his father, Robert Kennard, an architect, and his mother, Helen King, an elementary school teacher. William attended...
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