by BlackPastAdmin | Feb 18, 2014 | African American History, Primary Documents
Act of August 30, 1890, ch. 841, 26 Stat. 417, 7 U.S.C. 322 et seq. Chap. 841.–AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
by GutierrezVenableCecilia | Jan 11, 2014 | African American History, People
Singer and songwriter Darius Rucker was born on May 13, 1966, to Carolyn Rucker in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother, a nurse, supported him and his five brothers and sisters because his father, a traveling musician, was rarely able to spend time with the family....
by AgyemanKwasiH | Dec 6, 2013 | African American History, People
Craftsman Philip Reid is best known as the enslaved African who worked on casting the Statue of Freedom, which sits atop the Capitol building that houses the United States Congress. Reid is the most famous of the enslaved workers who comprised 50% of the workforce,...
by FikesRobert | Dec 3, 2013 | Global African History, Perspectives
In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African American emigrants to and visitors in Italy. Since the 1850s, African Americans have gone to Italy as tourists, students, soldiers,...
by BraggSusan | Sep 7, 2013 | African American History, People
In 1946, U.S. Army Sergeant Isaac Woodard challenged a Greyhound bus driver while traveling from Georgia to South Carolina after being discharged from service in World War II. Police officers, who met him at the next stop, brutally attacked him and left him...
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