Clothes Worn by Slaves on Southern Plantations
Slaves were not supplied with a lot of clothing. They were barely supplied with one item that was decent enough to wear. If slaves were...
Category : History
Pierre Caliste Landry
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Pierre Caliste Landry, a former slave turned educator and minister, is noted as the first African American to be elected mayor of a town in...
Jonathan Jasper Wright
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Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby...
Oliver O. Howard
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Oliver O. Howard, in full Oliver Otis Howard, (born Nov. 8, 1830, Leeds, Maine, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1909, Burlington, Vt.), U.S. Union officer in the...
Robert “Whirlwind” Johnson
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Robert “Whirlwind” Johnson is considered the Godfather of Black Tennis. The Lynchburg, Virginia physician was a tennis master who taught black tennis champions. Johnson’s sports...
Walter Moses Burton
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Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in Texas....
William Harvey Carney
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William Harvey Carney was born on February 29, 1840, in Norfolk, Virginia, as a slave. He learned to read and write secretly from a local...
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry
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The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was the first Northern black volunteer regiment enlisted to fight in the Civil War. Its accomplished combat record led to the general...
The Freedmen’s Bureau
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The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, was a groundbreaking federal agency established in the aftermath of the...
Rosewood riot of 1923
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Though it was originally settled in 1845 by both Black and white people, black codes and Jim Crow laws in the years after the Civil...