1st Rhode Island Regiment
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...
Category : History
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...
Joseph Hayne Rainey
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In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and take his seat. ...
Crystal Bird Fauset
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Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset was a trailblazing civil rights activist, social worker, educator, and politician, renowned as the first African American woman elected to a...
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...
Clothes Worn by Slaves on Southern Plantations
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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...