Robert “Whirlwind” Johnson
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...
Category : History
Walter Moses Burton
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Walter Moses Burton (August 9, 1840 – June 4, 1913) was a pioneering African American politician, law enforcement officer, and farmer in Texas. He holds...
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...
Ruth Carol Taylor
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Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States when she joined Mohawk Airlines in 1958. While she is...
Jill Elaine Brown
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Jill Elaine Brown (also known as Jill E. Brown or Jill Brown-Hiltz), born in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, is a pioneering American aviator and retired...
Charles L. Gittens
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Charles L. Gittens was an American Secret Service agent. He joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency’s first African American agent. An Army...
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
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Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield had little reason to dream of the life that would eventually become her own. ...