by VanHoutenMatt | Jan 3, 2011 | African American History, People
Henry McKee Minton was an African American pharmacist and physician who was one of the six men who founded the first African American fraternity, Sigma Pi Phi, commonly known as The Boulé. The other five founders were Algernon Jackson, Edwin Howard, Richard Warrick,...
by KleinAlexander | Dec 29, 2010 | African American History, People
Perry Young Jr, an airplane and helicopter pilot, was the first African American person to be hired by a commercial airline with regularly scheduled passenger flights. Young was born to his parents, Henry Young Sr. and Edith Lucille Young, on March 12, 1919, in...
by CabiaoHoward | Dec 1, 2010 | African American History, People
Janie L. Mines, the first African American woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy, was born in Aiken, South Carolina, in 1958. Her father, Reverend William L. Mines, was a Minister at Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Aiken, South Carolina. Her...
by SmithAdamChristian | Sep 22, 2010 | Global African History, People
Boston King, one of the pioneer settlers of Sierra Leone, was born enslaved on the Richard Waring plantation near Charleston, South Carolina around 1760. Through the age of 16, King was trained as a house servant before being sent to apprentice as a carpenter in...
by BartlettSarah | Sep 14, 2010 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Founded in 1790, the Brown Fellowship Society is the oldest all-male Funeral Society in Charleston, South Carolina. It also provides a major historical example of how racism affected the African American community itself, in that lighter-skinned African Americans in...
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