by WeberErika | Mar 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Brigadier General Julia Jeter Cleckley was the first African American female General in the U.S. Army National Guard. Cleckley spent twenty-eight years in the active Army National Guard, rising in the ranks and breaking barriers. She was the first person of color in...
by SmithTiana | Mar 8, 2018 | African American History, People
Tarana Burke is an activist who is best known for creating the Me Too movement which raises awareness about sexual harassment, assault, and abuse. Burke was born on September 12, 1973, in The Bronx, New York. She had many troubling experiences growing up in a...
by MomoduSamuel | Aug 10, 2016 | African American History, People
James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short story writer. He was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. McPherson was born on September 16, 1943, in Savannah, Georgia. His...
by MomoduSamuel | Jul 24, 2016 | African American History, People
Gregory Oliver Hines, an American tap dancer, singer, actor, and choreographer, was a major figure in the revitalization of tap dancing in the late twentieth century. Hines was born on February 14, 1946, in New York City, New York, the son of Alma Lola and Maurice...
by GuyJamesCameron | Jun 23, 2016 | African American History, People
Julian Hudson Mayfield was best known as an American actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist. Mayfield was born on June 6, 1928, in Greer, South Carolina, and was raised from the age of five in Washington. He attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High...
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