by DavidJMason | Mar 29, 2022 | African American History, People
Gloria Long Anderson is a Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, where she serves as vice president of academic affairs. She was born on November 11, 1938 in Altheimer, Arkansas, to Elsie Lee Foggie Long, a seamstress, and Charles Long, a sharecropper....
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Dec 6, 2021 | African American History, People
Composer/ Improvisational Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was born on October 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, as Farrell Sanders. An only child, Sanders’ mother worked as a cook in a school cafeteria, and his father worked for the City of Little Rock. They, too,...
by FikesRobert | Oct 10, 2020 | African American History, People
Prathia Hall Wynn was a womanist, theologian, ethicist, and civil rights activist who has been credited with being a key inspiration for Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have A Dream Speech.” Hall was born on June 29, 1940 to Reverend Berkeley L. Hall and Ruby Hall....
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Sep 4, 2020 | Global African History, People
Herman Perry was the target of the “Greatest Manhunt of World War II.” In fact, there is no comparable search for a fugitive soldier in the annals of U.S. military history. Perry was born in poverty on May 16, 1922, in rural Monroe, North Carolina, the son of Flonnie...
by Alyssa Snow | Apr 21, 2020 | African American History, Places
The West End of Louisville, Kentucky emerged as a predominantly black neighborhood in the city during the 1830s when free blacks began buying property west of 9th Street. The area, however, was not entirely black as African Americans lived alongside Jewish, German,...
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