Hazel Johnson
Hazel Johnson was the first African American woman to become a general in the U.S. Army. She was appointed the Chief of the Army Nurse...
Category : History
Buffalo soldier
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The term “Buffalo Soldier” refers to the African American soldiers who served in the United States Army during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
Henry O. Flipper
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Henry Ossian Flipper was born on March 21, 1856, near Thomasville, Georgia, into a family marked by resilience and ambition despite the oppressive circumstances of...
Ebenezer D. Bassett
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Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For eight years, the educator, abolitionist,...
1st Rhode Island Regiment
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The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a Continental Army regiment during the American Revolutionary War. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment became known as the “Black...
Macon Bolling Allen
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Pioneering Black Lawyer and Judge Macon Bolling Allen, born Allen Macon Bolling in 1816 in Indiana, holds the distinction of being the first Black man...
Charlotte E. Ray
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A Trailblazer in Law and Advocacy Charlotte E. Ray, born on January 13, 1850, in New York City, holds a distinguished place in American history...
Edward William Brooke III
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Edward William Brooke III was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate. Brooke, an African American, Protestant...
George Edwin Taylor
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Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor became the first African...
Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton
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Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, born May 13, 1925, in Norfolk, Virginia, was a trailblazer as the first African American and first woman to serve...