by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 22, 2024 | African American History, People
American jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader Grant Green, who recorded more than 30 albums, was an only child born to John Green and Martha Green in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 6, 1935. Grant’s early music lessons on the guitar were from his father, who was also...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Aug 11, 2023 | African American History, People
Pamela Sutton-Wallace is a healthcare executive. In 2022, she was appointed COO of Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut’s largest and most comprehensive healthcare system. Wallace was born in September 1969. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political...
by | Jan 24, 2023 | African American History, People
Jasmine Felicia Crockett, elected to the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 2022, was born on March 29, 1981, in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up in the city, she attended Mary Institute, St. Louis County Day School, and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls...
by StanleyFreeman | Apr 1, 2022 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, established 1864, was the first African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E. church) in the state of Mississippi and the site for T.W. Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasonry for the State of Mississippi in Vicksburg founded by Rev. T.W....
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 25, 2022 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
In 1816, Rocky Fork near Godfrey, Illinois, was established by four free African American families who purchased five adjacent parcels of land and built homes and a church that soon became a large-scale secret Underground Railroad station for escaped enslaved people...
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