Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, "Black Mary" had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. In fact, Mary Fields
Ralph Bunche rose from a humble neighborhood on the lower eastside of Detroit to the dizzying heights of international diplomacy at a time when black Americans in many areas of the United States were forced to sit in the backs of buses.
When James Francis Marion Jones was almost two years old he reportedly told his mother that his daddy would come home bloody. That evening his father, a railroad brakeman, staggered home, bleeding from the scalp where a hobo whom he had ejected from a box
Dunnigan was the first black female correspondent for Congress and the White House. Although she originally wanted to be a teacher and got a degree in education, journalism appealed to her more, and she wrote as much as she could, especially for the Assoc
J. Leonard Farmer was one of only 25 African-Americans with a Ph.D. when he arrived at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas in 1919. There he began a teaching career that would span thirty-seven years, most of that time in Texas.
The author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (often called "the Negro National Anthem"), James Weldon Johnson had a long career as a creative writer, black leader, teacher, lawyer, diplomat, and executive secretary of the National Associa
The legacy of one man, John Henry Peoples, lives on in the stone arches of the Masonic Temple, landmarks that were recently rescued from the wrecker's ball thanks to efforts of Pittsburg preservationists.
This list of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people of African Descent was first developed in response to requests for names of lesbigay and trans people to include in Black History Month 1994 celebrations.
