by WashingtonKC | Jul 8, 2024 | Featured, Global African History, People
Educator, political campaigner, and women’s rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas on October 25, 1900, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, to prominent farmer Chief Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and dressmaker Lucretia...
by BaarsmaBill | Sep 24, 2023 | African American History, People
Willie C. Stewart Sr. became Tacoma, Washington’s first Black school principal at Lincoln High School on June 25, 1970. Stewart’s appointment by School Superintendent Angelo Giaudrone, considered truly historic at the time, was but one of many achievements of...
by WaynePounds | Apr 6, 2022 | African American History, People
Lena Lowery Sawner was Oklahoma’s first Black public school principal as well as its first female public school principal. She was also prominent in state and national Black educational organizations. Lena Lowery rose from humble beginnings. Her father, Julius...
by IsonJames | Mar 15, 2012 | African American History, People
Hale Giddings Parker was a Midwest lawyer and political activist. He was the only African American appointed a Commissioner (an alternate) at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago by President Benjamin Harrison. Parker was born in Ripley, Ohio, the son of...
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