by OpsahlAlexanderJ | Aug 19, 2009 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Afro-American Council (AAC) was established in Rochester, New York, in September 1898 by newspaper editor T. Thomas Fortune and Bishop Alexander Walters of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. They envisioned the organization as a revival of the earlier...
by BlackPastAdmin | May 17, 2009 | African American History, Speeches
On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B Du Bois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia, South Carolina. Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to...
by ByarlayRyan | May 10, 2009 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Black and Tan Republicans were African Americans in the Reconstruction-era South who were loyal to the Republican Party. When the Republican Party was founded in 1854, few African Americans joined. By the time of the election of Abraham Lincoln, the Party began to...
by LewisCarole | Apr 22, 2009 | African American History, People
Hylan Garnett Lewis was a distinguished sociologist and pioneer in the field of community studies whose work helped guide the study of American race relations for more than half a century. Throughout his life, Lewis analyzed, and sought remedies for, the problems of...
by RogersBrittany | Apr 14, 2009 | African American History, People
William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901, in Florence, South Carolina, to mother Alice Smoot Johnson (known as “Mom Alice” or “Aunt Alice”) and father Henry Johnson. William H. Johnson was the oldest of five...
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