Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson is a model, actress, singer, and businesswoman who in 1971 became the first African American woman to appear on the cover of a...
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Jesse B. Blayton, Sr
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Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., was a pioneer African American radio station entrepreneur. Blayton founded WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949, making him the...
Andrew Felton Brimmer
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A writer, an economist and an advocate for affirmative action, Andrew Felton Brimmer is best known as the first African American to hold a governorship...
Montford Point Marines (1942-1949)
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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. ...
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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Born on April 10, 1865, in Detroit, Michigan, Jesse Binga was the youngest of ten children. His father, William W. Binga, was a barber and...
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...