Category : Politics

Melvin Herbert (Mel) Evans was born in Christiansted, St. Croix, on August 7, 1917, soon after the United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark....

Josiah Thomas Walls was born into slavery in Winchester, Virginia, on December 30, 1842. He was suspected to be the son of his master, Dr....

Born on December 18, 1852, in Rosindale, Bladen County, North Carolina, George Henry White died on December 28, 1918, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A successful attorney,...

Michael S. Steele, in full Michael Stephen Steele, (born Oct. 19, 1958, Andrews Air Force Base, Prince George’s County, Md., U.S.), American politician, the first...

The politician Arthur Wergs Mitchell was born in Chambers County, Alabama. He left home at age fourteen and walked to Tuskegee Institute, where he obtained...

James T. Rapier, in full James Thomas Rapier, (born Nov. 13, 1837, Florence, Ala., U.S.—died May 31, 1883, Montgomery, Ala.), black planter and labor organizer...

Allen West was born on February 7, 1961, in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, to Herman and Elizabeth West, and grew up in Atlanta’s inner city....

George Thomas “Mickey” Leland was America’s most effective spokesman for hungry people in the United States and throughout the world. During six terms in the...

Richard Harvey Cain was born a free black in Greenbrier County, Virginia on April 12, 1825. In 1831 his parents moved to Gallipolis, Ohio where...

William Levi Dawson was a well-known Chicago, Illinois lawyer who became one of the city’s most influential politicians.  His career paralleled the rising significance of...