by David H. Jackson Jr. | Dec 3, 2021 | African American History, People
Internationally renowned academic administrator and engineer Makola Mjasiri Abdullah was born Makola Packard on June 22, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois, to Richard Howard Packard, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and Samella Abdullah, a clinical psychologist who...
by ZhongMichelle | Mar 22, 2018 | Global African History, People
André Pinto Rebouças was a Brazilian engineer and abolitionist, best known for creating one of the world’s first self-propelled torpedoes during the Paraguayan War. Rebouças was born on January 13, 1838 in Cachoeira, Brazil. The son of Antônio Pereira Rebouças, a...
by ZhongMichelle | Jan 28, 2018 | African American History, People
Charles Ward Chappelle was an American engineer and businessman best known for his award-winning long-distance airplane in 1911 and his tenure as president of the African Union Company from 1913 to 1930. In January of 1911, Chappelle presented at the First Industrial...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Sep 17, 2017 | African American History, People
Navy Admiral Cecil Haney was born into a struggling family in “humble surroundings” in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 1955. After graduating from the city’s Eastern High School, Haney left for Annapolis, Maryland, where he was a distinguished midshipman at the...
by ButlerGerry | Aug 6, 2017 | African American History, People
Joseph Charles Jenkins, the first African American naval officer, paved the way for the beginning of desegregation in the United States Coast Guard. Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1914. Unfortunately, there is little information regarding his childhood. He...
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