by FateMichael | Apr 16, 2014 | African American History, People
Jehu Jones Sr. was a free black entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, most well known for owning the Jones Hotel. He was born in 1769 as a slave to Christopher Rogers, a tailor, and grew up learning his master’s trade. Rogers manumitted (freed) Jones in 1798 for...
by FateMichael | Apr 16, 2014 | African American History, People
Jehu Jones Jr., the first African American Lutheran pastor, was born in Charleston, South Carolina on September 4, 1786 to slave parents, Jehu Sr. and Abigail Jones. Jones’ parents were freed in 1798. The elder Jones, who had been trained as a tailor, was able to buy...
by StephensRonaldJ | Apr 14, 2014 | African American History, Places
Atlantic Beach, South Carolina was one of the last all-black resorts to be developed along the Atlantic Coast. Formed two years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened beach resorts to all visitors regardless of race, Atlantic Beach never had the opportunity afforded...
by JonesJames | Mar 31, 2014 | African American History, People
Born a slave under the name “Toney” in 1791, Anthony Weston eventually became the patriarch of Charleston, South Carolina’s elite free black family, the Westons. Weston began his life as a biracial enslaved person who worked as a millwright. Eventually, however, he...
by KissingerMichael | Mar 26, 2014 | African American History, People
Oil Painting of James V. Herring by James Porter, 1923 (Image Courtesy of Howard University) James Vernon Herring was an influential American artist and teacher in the early twentieth century. He played an integral role in devising new ways by which art would be...
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