by DartisMichelle | Nov 4, 2018 | African American History, People
Annie E. Brown gained fame as a Methodist Episcopal evangelist in the late 1800s and early 1900s, earning a national reputation among Blacks and whites alike with her missionary work. While most of Brown’s work was done along the Atlantic seaboard, she traveled as far...
by KirkIan | Jul 29, 2014 | African American History, People
John Berry Meachum was a businessman, a founder of the oldest black church in Missouri, and a pioneer in the education of blacks in that state. Meachum was born a slave in Goochland County, Virginia on May 3, 1789. His owner, Paul Meachum, moved Meachum to North...
by StatenCandace | Aug 16, 2010 | African American History, People
As one of the most renowned big-band leaders of the 1920s, Bennie Moten succeeded in developing the “Kansas City” sound in big-band jazz. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 13, 1894, Moten spent most of his youth playing baritone saxophone in the city’s...
by MeakinKate | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After being denied admittance to hotels in Buffalo, New York, the group of twenty-nine business owners, teachers, and clergy who comprised the initial...
by YuKarlson | May 23, 2007 | African American History, People
Scott Joplin, a musician and composer of ragtime music, was born in 1867 to ex-slave parents who worked as laborers on a Texas farm. At an early age they moved to Texarkana, on the Texas-Arkansas border, and it was here, following his mother as she cleaned the houses...
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