Margaret Murray Washington, born March 9, 1865, was one of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was African American. As a child Murray spent much of her time reading and quickly excelled in school. By th ...
Posted Monday, March 10th 2014 at 3:53PM
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Carrie Best was born Carrie Prevoe in New Glasgow, Canada on March 4, 1903. to James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe. A creative child, Carrie wrote poetry at age four and many letters to Canadian newspaper editors expressing her views while in her teen yea ...
Posted Wednesday, March 5th 2014 at 5:52PM
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, pioneering model, dies at 93
BY LARRY GIERER
March 4, 2014
One of the first African-American models in the country and founder of the first black model agency, Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell died Friday at the age of 93 in New York City.
She was more well known in Columbus ...
Posted Tuesday, March 4th 2014 at 6:51PM
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SOJOURNER TRUTH'S INFAMOUS "AIN'T I A WOMAN" SPPECH
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, the youngest of 12 children, in Ulster County, NY, in 1797. When she was nine, Isabella was sold from her family to an English speaking-family calle ...
Posted Saturday, March 1st 2014 at 5:19PM
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Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister and civil rights leader who was active in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans from the 1920s. At times he has been rated as one of the three greatest African-A ...
Posted Friday, February 28th 2014 at 12:23PM
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the University ...
Posted Thursday, February 27th 2014 at 8:04PM
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Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam ("Black Muslims") during their period of greatest growth in the mid-twentieth century. He was a major promoter of independent, black-operated businesses, institutions, and religion.
Elijah Muh ...
Posted Tuesday, February 25th 2014 at 11:07AM
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More than a half-century ago, Alexander P. Tureaud Jr. became the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University until students, teachers, the administration and the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals forced him out before he cou ...
Posted Monday, February 24th 2014 at 5:24PM
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Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught African-American painter. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Goshe ...
Posted Saturday, February 22nd 2014 at 6:19PM
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Edith Spurlock Sampson (October 13, 1898 – October 8, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge, and the first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations.
Sampson was one of eight children born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. to Louis Spur ...
Posted Wednesday, February 19th 2014 at 2:06PM
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Oretha Castle Haley was born in Oakland, Tennessee in 1939 and moved to New Orleans with her parents in 1947 at the young age of 8. After graduating from Joseph S. Clark High School she enrolled at the Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) where ...
Posted Tuesday, February 18th 2014 at 9:09PM
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