Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton
Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, born May 13, 1925, in Norfolk, Virginia, was a trailblazer as the first African American and first woman to serve...
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George Edwin Taylor
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Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor became the first African...
Joseph Hayne Rainey
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In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and take his seat. ...
Crystal Bird Fauset
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Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset was a trailblazing civil rights activist, social worker, educator, and politician, renowned as the first African American woman elected to a...
Clothes Worn by Slaves on Southern Plantations
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Slaves were not supplied with a lot of clothing. They were barely supplied with one item that was decent enough to wear. If slaves were...
Pierre Caliste Landry
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Pierre Caliste Landry, a former slave turned educator and minister, is noted as the first African American to be elected mayor of a town in...
Jonathan Jasper Wright
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Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby...
Oliver O. Howard
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Oliver O. Howard, in full Oliver Otis Howard, (born Nov. 8, 1830, Leeds, Maine, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1909, Burlington, Vt.), U.S. Union officer in the...
Edmund Thornton Jenkins
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A Pioneer in Black Orchestral Music Edmund Thornton Jenkins was a trailblazing figure in the world of music, particularly known for his contributions to black...
Ralph Bunche
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Ralph Bunche was an influential figure in the field of international relations and diplomacy. Born in 1904 in Detroit, Michigan, Bunche went on to become...