by YeeShirley | May 24, 2011 | African American History, People
Shields Green Image Ownership: Public Domain Known as the “Emperor,” Shields Green was a fugitive slave who was executed in 1859 for his role in John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry. Shields Green was born a slave in South Carolina, with his birth year varying...
by JacksonJoelle | May 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Ronald Erwin McNair was a physicist and one of the first African American astronauts to go into space. He was also the first black astronaut to die on a space mission. McNair was born to Carl McNair, an auto body repairman, and Pearl McNair, a high school teacher,...
by Stolp-SmithMichael | Apr 7, 2011 | African American History, Encyclopedia Entry Type, Events
On July 8, 1876, the small town of Hamburg, South Carolina erupted in violence as the community’s African American militia clashed with whites from the surrounding area. Hamburg was a small all-black community across the river from Augusta, Georgia. Like many...
by Fields-BlackEddaL | Feb 22, 2011 | Global African History, Perspectives
Carnegie Mellon University historian Edda L. Fields Black’s 2008 book, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora, opened a vast new area of diasporic study by linking the cultivation of rice in Africa to the rise of this crucially...
by HilliardConstance | Feb 18, 2011 | African American History, People
U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Timothy Eugene Scott, is the first Black Republican elected to the Senate from the South since Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce served in that body representing Mississippi from 1876 to 1881. He is also the first Black Republican senator...
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