The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in Washington D.C. in 2003.
Read more "National Museum of African American History and Culture"The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States that opened in Montgomery, Alabama in September 2016.
Read more "The National Memorial for Peace and Justice"Autherine Lucy Foster received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alabama in 2019 at age 89. She originally applied in 1952, was denied because she was Black, enrolled in 1956, was dismissed after three days because of riots and threats on her life. In 1988 the dismissal was annulled and she graduated with her […]
Read more "Autherine Lucy Foster"Dr. Andrea L. Miller became the first woman and the second alumnus to serve as president of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN after taking office in 2015.
Read more "Dr. Andrea L. Miller"Ethiopian leader, Haile Selassie (1892-1975) became the first Black man on the cover of Time magazine in 1930 and was later named “Man of the Year” in 1936.
Read more "Haile Selassie"Joyce Wilford shared the cover with model Bonnie Lyshoir, becoming the first black girl on the cover of Seventeen in 1971.
Read more "Joyce Wilford"Julian Manly Earls became NASA’s first Black section head, first Black office chief, first Black division chief, first Black deputy director, NASA’s second Black center director, and he also wrote NASA’s first health physics guides.
Read more "Julian Manly Earls"Model, Katiti Kironde, became the first Black woman on the cover of Glamour, the magazine’s best-selling issue of all time in 1968.
Read more "Katiti Kironde"Philip Downing (1857-1934) designed and patented the modern day letter box in 1891, the predecessor to the modern mail box.
Read more "Philip Downing"Alice Childress, 1916 – 1994, novelist, playwright, and actress. The only black woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades. She formed an off-Broadway Union for actors.
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