by NielsenEuellA. | Feb 10, 2014 | African American History, People
Louise Cecelia Fleming, the first African American to graduate from the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born January 28, 1862, to slave parents on a plantation near Hibernia in Clay County, Florida. Her father is unknown; she was raised by...
by YeeShirley | Feb 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Historian, educator and clergyman Rev. Miles Mark Fisher was pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina from 1933 to 1965. He published a number of important scholarly works on African American culture and the Baptist missionary movement to...
by YeeShirley | Feb 16, 2011 | African American History, People
Born into slavery in Charles City County, Virginia, Lott Carey (sometimes spelled “Cary”) was one of the first African American Baptist missionaries to preach and work in Africa. Although Carey may have received Christian teachings from his father, a respected member...
by ModicaAaron | Dec 19, 2009 | Global African History, People
Rev. Samuel Johnson was a nineteenth-century Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba ethnic group of Nigeria. Samuel Johnson is most noted for his manuscript The History of the Yorubas, which was posthumously published in 1921. Born to Henry and Sarah Johnson, in...
by GranshawMichelle | Dec 19, 2009 | African American History, People
Georgia E. Lee Patton, physician and missionary, was born a slave in Grundy County, Tennessee. Her father died before her birth, leaving her mother to care for Patton and her siblings. After moving to Coffee County, Tennessee, in 1866, her mother supported the family...
Recent Comments