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.
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…
Ruben Um Nyobè
Ruben Um Nyobè (1913 – 13 September 1958) was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, slain by the French army on 13 September 1958, near his natal village of Boumnyebel, in the…