by LanumMackenzie | Nov 20, 2011 | African American History, People
Dr. Matilda Arabelle Evans, black healthcare advocate, was born in Aiken, South Carolina in 1866. The oldest of three, born to Anderson and Harriet Evans, she spent much of the beginning of her life working in the fields with her family. Martha Shoefield, a white...
by BlackPastAdmin | Nov 10, 2011 | African American History, Primary Documents
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 81-3 Argued: October 12, 1982 — Decided: May 24, 1983 [*] CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to decide whether petitioners, nonprofit private...
by HurtLeslie | Sep 2, 2011 | African American History, People
Image Courtesy of the New York Amsterdam News (Fair Use) Former Tuskegee University president Benjamin Franklin Payton was born in 1932 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His father, Reverend Leroy Payton, was a Baptist minister, farmer, and teacher while his mother,...
by CollinsSibrina | Aug 12, 2011 | African American History, People
Image courtesy of the South Carolina African American Calendar Born in Columbia, South Carolina on June 19, 1913, Edwin Roberts Russell was an African American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II which produced the first atomic bombs and...
by MunroRobert | Jul 18, 2011 | African American History, People
In 1909 Gilbert Haven Jones became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from a German university. After completing his doctoral studies in philosophy, Jones returned to the United States to take up teaching and administrative positions, primarily at...
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