by DavidZuber | Mar 3, 2022 | African American History, People
Abraham Galloway, freedom-fighter, spy, abolitionist, and politician, is an unsung hero of American history. Galloway was born a slave on February 8, 1837 in Smithville (now Southport), North Carolina, the son of an enslaved woman and a white boatman. Little is known...
by BrackNaomii | Feb 22, 2022 | African American History, People
Henry E. Hayne was the second African American to serve as the South Carolina Secretary of State after Francis Cardozo. He held that post from 1872 to 1877. Hayne is also known as the first African American student to attend the University of South Carolina. Hayne was...
by Christina Hudson | Jan 26, 2022 | African American History, People
Hannibal Caesar Carter, the second African American to serve as Secretary of State in Mississippi, was born on February 11, 1835, in New Albany, Indiana. Though he spent his early childhood in Toronto, Canada, Carter received a common school education in New Albany....
by Christina Hudson | Oct 25, 2021 | African American History, People
James “Jim” Hill was born into slavery in the late 1830s on the J. Hill Salem Road Plantation in Marshall County, Mississippi. He was a leader of the Reconstruction Era Republican Party, chairman of the Republican state executive committee, and national committeeman...
by NielsenEuellA. | Oct 11, 2021 | African American History, People
Francis Lewis Cardozo was a minister, educator, and politician who was born free in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 1, 1836. Cardozo was of mixed ancestry, as his father, Isaac Nunez Cardozo, was a Sephardic Jew, and his mother, Lydia Williams Weston, was a...
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