Forty Acres And A Mule
Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American…
Iota Phi Theta
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. (ΙΦΘ) is a historically African American fraternity. It was founded on September 19, 1963, at Morgan State University (then Morgan State College) in Baltimore, Maryland,…
Zeta Phi Beta
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (ΖΦΒ) is a historically African American sorority. In 1920, five women from Howard University envisioned a sorority that would raise the consciousness of their people,…
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,…
Wreck Of The Ship Utile On Tromelin Island
Wreck of the ship Utile On 31 July 1761 the French ship Utile (“Useful”), a frigate of the French East India Company, chartered by Jean-Joseph de Laborde and commanded by…
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.