Emmit J. McHenry
Emmit J. McHenry is a founder, chairman, and CEO of Enterprise Magazine’s 10th-ranked African American-owned business, NetCom Solutions International, Inc. He was born in Forrest...
Category : History
American Anti-Slavery Society
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American Anti-Slavery Society, (1833–70), promoter, with its state and local auxiliaries, of the cause of immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. As the...
Manumission
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Manumission is defined as the formal process by which a slave owner can give his slaves their legal freedom. During the period of American slavery...
Black codes
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Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was...
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, (born March 15, 1809, Petersburg, Va., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1876, Monrovia, Liberia), American-born, first president of Liberia (1848–56). A native of Virginia,...
10 Thriving Black Towns You Didn’t Learn About in History Class
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The Town Destroyed to Make Way for Central Park: Seneca Village, N.Y. — Seneca Village was founded in 1825 when Epiphany Davis and Andrew Williams...
Francis Scott Key
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Francis Scott Key, (born August 1, 1779, Frederick County, Maryland, U.S.—died January 11, 1843, Baltimore), American lawyer, best known as the author of the U.S....
The history of Liberia
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The country of Liberia was founded in 1821 by former slaves from the United States of America as a result of the end of the...
Zipporah Potter Atkins
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Zipporah Potter Atkins (July 4, 1645 – January 8, 1705) was a free African American woman who owned land in colonial Boston, during a time...
The Myth of Racial Inferiority and the Black Soldier
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Throughout our country’s history, African Americans have looked hopefully to military service as a way to achieve racial equality and opportunity. But the dream that...