The “Bordentown School,” founded in 1886 in Bordentown, New Jersey, began as a self-sustaining, co-educational, vocational school in a two-story residence in Bordentown, New Jersey....
Scipio Africanus Jones was a prominent Little Rock (Pulaski County) attorney and one of the city’s leading African-American citizens at the end of the nineteenth...
The Great Migrations from 1910 to 1960 marked a significant demographic shift in the United States, as millions of African Americans made the journey from...
Harold Bethuel Evans, the research chemist, was born on October 31, 1907, in Brazil, Indiana. Evans attended Michigan State University for his undergraduate degree beginning...
Ronald E. Mickens, mathematical physicist, researcher, and university professor was born on February 7, 1943, in Petersburg, Virginia to Daisy Brown Mickens and Joseph Mickens....
Eric Pierce’s work studying the interaction between water and rocks has taken him from coast to coast, including a stop in Washington, DC, before settling...
Community leader and gynecologist Dr. Josephine English was born on December 17, 1920, in Ontario, Virginia to Whittie, Sr., and Jennie English. She grew up...
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological...