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Black Mariners in Whaling Industry
Did you know that blacks served among crews on whaling ships before the American Revolution? Did you know that Crispus Attucks spent 20 years as a whaler before he was the...
Jim Crow in the Saddle
In the early 19th Century, Southern Thoroughbred breeders relied on slaves to care for, ride and train horses. After Emancipation slaves remained on the farms and it was...
First Black Auto Manufacturer
Frederick Postell Patterson was the first manufacturer, owner, and operator of Greenfield-Patterson Automobile Company. His first car debuted in 1915, built-in Ohio,the car...
Black Wall Street Destroyed
When white supremacists were not successful in eliminating the individual progress of “uppity blacks,” they resorted to destroying whole communities to return “white...
176 Year History of Party Platforms
A party platform is a document that contains principal goals of the two major parties that comes out every four years before the presidential election and contains the...
Victor Young: Lamborghini Merchant & Media Mogul
Last year a presentation was made to an after-school tutoring program for middle school students that shared the story of Victor Young, a Lamborghini merchant and media...
Robert S. Abbott: The Chicago Defender
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 – 1940) was born of freeman parents and was given his middle name by his stepfather at the age of one. Abbott studied at Claflin University,...
Junius G. Groves: Potato King of the World
Junius G. Groves (1859 - 1925) was perhaps the most successful black farmer and is referred to as the “potato king of the world.” Groves was born a slave in Green County,...
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was an active member of the local NAACP Youth Council lead by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2, 1955, Colvin tested the...
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