From 'Tech' to Tuskegee: The Life of Robert Robinson Taylor, 1868-1942. The first black student to attend MIT appears to have been Robert Robinson Taylor, who enrolled in 1888.
Welcome to my salute to Cartoonists who paved the way for others like me in the cartooning industry. Their contribution was, & still is in being the early pioneers of Color who created & drew comics & cartoons during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s.
A free African American of color who fought for Texas independence was Greenbury Logan, a soldier under Fannin at the Battle of Concepcion. Logan was one of those who accompanied Ben Milam into San Antonio in December of 1835 when the Texas army defeated
On the afternoon of June 25, 1876 as Major Reno lead his hasty "charge" out of the clump of trees to which his initial attack and skirmish line had been reduced, several men of his command both alive and mortaly wounded were abandoned. One such
Robert Samuel Fletcher, in his history of Oberlin College, gives Mary Jane Patterson the distinction of being "probably the first African Negro woman in the world" to attain the distinction of receving an A.B. degree.
Rev. Pinkney JOYCE was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1865 and sometime thereafter he moved to Forsyth County and united with First Baptist Church (black) in Winston. He settled in the Belview Community of Waughtown and built a home on Urban
Robert was born in 1893 in a log cabin “so threadbare you could see straight through the floor.” He was the last of 13 children. His father, Arthur Jerry Eldridge was born into slavery in 1845 in Stokes County. Robert’s mother was Nannie Taliaferro who wa
Matthew’s family lived and worked closely together and networked / intermarried with their peers in neighboring counties. They were free colored persons in a post-Colonial state. Matthew and his family were a part of a tri-racial isolate group (African an
