by BlackPastAdmin | Mar 15, 2017 | African American History, Primary Documents
Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American...
by CobbinsQuinNitaF | Dec 12, 2016 | African American History, People
Daisy Tibbs Dawson, a Seattle, Washington peace activist and educator, is the only African American to be memorialized in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbs was born in Toney, Alabama on July 27, 1924 to Calvin and Martha Tibbs. At a very...
by NielsenEuellA. | Oct 13, 2016 | African American History, People
Mamie Lee Johnson was the first and only African American female pitcher and one of three African American women to play in the Negro Leagues. Johnson was born Mamie Belton on September 27, 1935, in Ridgeway, South Carolina, to Gentry Harrison and Della Belton...
by MomoduSamuel | Oct 5, 2016 | African American History, People
Viola Davis is an American producer and actress of stage, screen, and television. Davis was born August 11, 1965, in St. Matthews, South Carolina. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Davis, a maid, factory worker, homemaker, and civil rights activist. Her father, Dan...
by MomoduSamuel | Aug 31, 2016 | African American History, People
Chaplain (Major General) Matthew Augustus Zimmerman Jr. is a retired American Army officer who served as the 18th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to hold this position. Zimmerman was born on December 9,...
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