In the last week of May, history was made at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point when it graduated 34 African-American women in its Class of 2019! Although the Class was comprised of more than 950 cadets, they represented the largest num...
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Important Figures
Charles Young was born into slavery on March 12, 1864 to Gabriel Young and Arminta Bruen in Mays Lick, Kentucky, a small village near Maysville. His father escaped from slavery early in 1865, crossing the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio, an...
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On February 18, 1894, Paul Revere Williams was born to Chester and Lila Williams. The family had recently relocated from Memphis to Los Angeles. By the time that Paul had turned two years old, Chester had suffered and passed away from ...
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Born on December 31, 1900, in Mooresville, North Carolina, Selma Hortense Burke was the seventh of ten children born to Reverend Neil and Mary Elizabeth Burke. Her mother stayed at home to rear their family. Her father, who was a minister, o...
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Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill) was born to Charles and Ruby St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents had immigrated from the Caribbean: her father, originally from British Guyana, settled in ...
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"Once in a lifetime, a man like that comes along … once in a lifetime."Audrey "Queen Mother" Moore, Black nationalist and activist
On November 29, 1908, in New Haven, Connecticut, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie Shaffer Powell welcomed a ...
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