Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at…
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (ΦΒΣ)
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (ΦΒΣ) is a historically African American fraternity. It was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male…
Enslaved African’s Were In The Amerca’s Before 1619
BY: CRYSTAL PONTI UPDATED: AUGUST 26, 2019 | ORIGINAL: AUGUST 14, 2019 America’s History of Slavery Began Long Before Jamestown The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony,…
Alice H. Parker
Alice H. Parker (1895 – 1920) was an African-American inventor who was active in the early 1900s. She is most widely recognized for her patent filed for a gas furnace,…
Caesar
Caesar (c. 1737 (supposedly) – 1852) was an enslaved person who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person ever photographed while alive, when his daguerreotype was taken in 1851. He…
Lynching of Cordella Stevenson
Cordella Stevenson was an African-American woman who was sexually assaulted and lynched by a mob of white men in Columbus, Mississippi on December 15, 1915.
Doris Miller
Doris Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was an American Naval cook who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal…
Charles Harris Wesley
Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 – August 16, 1987) was an American historian, educator, minister, and author. He published more than 15 books on African-American history, taught for decades…
Lloyd Warner lynching
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Nov. 29. mob estimated at 9,000 persons, many of them wildly-laughing women, defied a tear gas barrage from officers and a national guard tank corp protecting the…
Orion Anderson
Orion Anderson (1875–1889) was a 14-year-old African American who was hanged and shot, on November 8, 1889, in Leesburg, Virginia, by a white mob. His murder was the second of…