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 ...
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 Universi ...
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 Gos ...
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 Sp ...
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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Huey Newton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on 17th February, 1942. His father, who named his son after the radical politcian, Huey P. Long, was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colou ...
Posted Monday, February 17th 2014 at 2:59PM
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The first African American Postmaster of a major postal facility, Henry W. McGee, Sr. was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1910, and moved to Chicago in 1927. McGee was the first person to rise from the ranks of letter carriers to achieve the status of ...
Posted Sunday, February 16th 2014 at 3:53PM
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Henry Jay Lewis (October 16, 1932 – January 26, 1996) was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Lewis attended The University of Southern California and at age 16, joined the Los An ...
Posted Saturday, February 15th 2014 at 2:34PM
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Morehouse College is one of ten historically black colleges and universities in Georgia. Located a few miles from downtown Atlanta in the historic West End district, Morehouse is one of only five all-male colleges in the United States and the only on ...
Posted Friday, February 14th 2014 at 10:41AM
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Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison at 4.14pm on February 11, 1990, after spending 27 years in detention under the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Accompanied by his then wife Winnie, Mr. Mandela waved to crowds and smile ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2014 at 3:05PM
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Charles W. Follis, a.k.a. "The Black Cyclone," (February 3, 1879 – April 5, 1910) was the first black professional football player. He played for the Shelby Blues of the "Ohio League" from 1902 to 1906. On September 16, 1904, Follis signed a contra ...
Posted Monday, February 10th 2014 at 3:21PM
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Joseph Charles Price was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. on Feb. 10, 1854. Emily Paulin, his mother, was born a free African American woman and his father, Charles Dozier, was a slave. During Slavery the child always followed the status of the mother. ...
Posted Sunday, February 9th 2014 at 4:46PM
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On Feb. 8, 1986, the Oprah Winfrey Show became nationally syndicated. Her very first show featured the topic “How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice.” Interestingly, that was not the first choice as guest for the day. Producers had wor ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 7:30PM
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Latasha Harlins (July 14, 1975 – March 16, 1991) was a 15-year-old African-American girl who was unlawfully shot and killed by Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean store owner. Harlins was a student at Westchester High School in Los Angeles. Because Ha ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 6:34PM
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James McCune Smith was born April 18, 1813. He was an African American physician and abolitionist.
From New York City, he received his early education at the African Free School. Though his academic credentials were exceptional, Smith was effectiv ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:49PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 4:31PM
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Louis Charles Roudanez was born in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to Louis Roudanez, a French merchant, and Aimee Potens, a free woman of color. Listed as white on his baptismal registry, Roudanez was baptized as Catholic by the president of the Colleg ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 12:28PM
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Marie VanBrittan Brown, Home Security Inventor
While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable.
That was the year famous African-American inventor Ma ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 4:27PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rig ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 4:52PM
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