Montford Point Marines (1942-1949)
With the beginning of World War II African Americans would get their chance to be in “the toughest outfit going,” the previously all-white Marine Corps. ...
Category : History
Jane Bolin
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Jane Bolin was the first black women graduate of Yale Law School and the first black female judge in the United States. Bolin was born...
Jesse Binga
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Jesse Binga’s rise from relative poverty to become the wealthiest African American entrepreneur and banker in Chicago in the late 19th century earned him a...
The National Bar Association
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The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded on August 1, 1925, in Des Moines, Iowa by 120 lawyers to give voice to black attorneys who...
March on Washington Movement in 1941
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The March on Washington Movement (MOWM) was the most militant and important force in African American politics in the early 1940s, formed in order to...
Cottrell Lawrence Dellums
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Cottrell Lawrence Dellums was born in Corsicana, Texas and came to the San Francisco Bay area as a young man. He became a major African...
Milton Price Webster
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Milton Price Webster is best known as one of the founders and long-time Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids...
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led...
George H. White
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George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901) from North Carolina’s Second Congressional...