by MouserBruceL | Aug 7, 2013 | Global African History, Perspectives
In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the...
by NewmarkJill | Apr 15, 2013 | African American History, People
Benjamin A. Boseman, physician, politician, and postmaster, was free born in New York in 1840 to Benjamin A. and Annaretta Boseman. He was the oldest of five children, two girls and three boys. Boseman grew up in Troy, New York where his father served as a steward...
by PittsVanessa | Mar 26, 2013 | African American History, People
Barbara Hillary was the first African American woman on record to reach both the North and South Poles. Born in New York City, New York, on June 12, 1931, to Viola Jones Hillary and raised in Harlem, Hillary attended the New School University in New York, N.Y., where...
by MuellerRobert | Feb 13, 2013 | African American History, People
Larry Doby was the first African American baseball player to go directly from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues when the Cleveland Indians purchased his contract from the Newark Eagles on July 3, 1947. Two days later, on July 5, 1947, Larry Doby became the first...
by McNallyDeborah | Jan 31, 2013 | African American History, People
Composer, performer, musical critic/essayist, advocate, and teacher H. Lawrence Freeman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1869 to Lemuel Freeman and Agnes Sims-Freeman. Initially self-taught, Freeman’s musical abilities were apparent at a young age. At 12, he started...
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