Bass Reeves
Bass Reeves, an American lawman, was born in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas, and passed away on January 12, 1910, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Reeves is...
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Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell
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Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell is a major in the United States Air Force, and the first African-American and female US Air Force fighter pilot. Kimbrell was...
Colonel Merryl Tengesdal
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In the annals of American military aviation, few names resonate with the force of quiet determination and historic breakthrough as Colonel Merryl Tengesdal (Ret.). Born...
Daughters of the American Revolution
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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), in full National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a patriotic society organized October 11, 1890, and...
Martin Armstrong Martin
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Martin Armstrong Martin (July 24, 1910 – April 27, 1963) was an American criminal and civil rights attorney from Danville, Virginia who became the first...
Compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser,” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S....
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under...
Cathay Williams
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Cathay Williams was born in September 1844 in Independence, Missouri, to an enslaved mother and a free father, which legally rendered her a slave. During...
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska, a vast area of land that would become Kansas,...