by | Jan 12, 2023 | African American History, People
Booker T. Washington once called Charles Banks the “most influential businessman in the United States” and Mississippi’s “leading Negro Banker.” The son of former slaves, Daniel A. Banks, a farmer, and Sallie Ann, a housekeeper and cook, Banks was born on March 25,...
by FikesRobert | Jan 7, 2022 | African American History, Events
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War was a conflict between two political factions in Fort Bend County, Texas. The origin of the conflict can be traced back to Reconstruction when African Americans, who comprised 80% of the population in the county, dominated politics. That...
by MikellRobert | Dec 2, 2021 | African American History, People
Randy Allen Daniels is a politician, and journalist, who served as the 61st Secretary of State for New York. Daniels was born in 1950, in Chicago, Illinois. His mother was a seamstress from Mississippi, and his father was a dry cleaner from Arkansas. Daniels attended...
by Bianca Crawley | Apr 15, 2021 | African American History, People
Lucille Boynton Skaggs Edwards, a journalist and suffragist, was the first African American woman magazine publisher in Nebraska. Edwards was born to Mary and David Skaggs in Washington, D.C. on July 23, 1875. Some documents suggest that her mother was a white Irish...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Apr 12, 2021 | African American History, People
Pioneer pharmacist Anna Louise James was born Louise Clegget James on January 19, 1886, in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the eighth of eleven children born to Willis Samuel James, who was born enslaved and escaped at age sixteen through the Underground Railroad, and...
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