The Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots who served in the United States Army Air Corps (later the United States Army Air...
Frederick Douglass Patterson
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Frederick Douglass Patterson, renowned educator and founder of the United Negro College Fund, was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1901. He was orphaned...
Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
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Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed...
The National Urban League
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The National Urban League (NUL) was formed on October 11, 1910, to help African American migrants assimilate into urban life. The NUL began with the...
Vernon Eulion Jordan
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Vernon Eulion Jordan, civil rights leader, lawyer, and presidential advisor was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 15, 1935. Growing up in the segregated American...
The United Negro College Fund
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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded on April 25, 1944, by Frederick Patterson, President of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an...
Fugitive Slave Act (1793)
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Chap. VII.—An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate...
Daniel Alexander Payne
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Born on February 24, 1811, to free Black parents London and Martha Payne in Charleston, South Carolina, Daniel Alexander Payne would become a Bishop in...
Wilberforce University
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Wilberforce University was established near Xenia, Ohio in 1856 as a joint venture between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Named...