Monroe Nichols (1983 -)
Monroe Nichols IV, born on September 24, 1983, is an American politician who was elected the first Black Mayor of…
Andre Hill (1973-2020)
Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed African American man became another Black Lives Matter victim when he was shot and killed…
Fort Concho (1867-1889)
An active Texas frontier Army post between 1867 and 1889, Fort Concho at various times posted units from the Ninth…
Charles Frederick Page, Inventor of the Bi-Ballooned Flyable Airship, 1903
The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 is…
Pamela Goynes-Brown (1962- )
Pamela Goynes-Brown, the first African American major of North Las Vegas, was born in 1962 on a Navajo Indian Reservation…
James A. Sharp, Jr. (1933-2023)
The first popularly elected African American mayor of Flint, Michigan, James A. Sharp, Jr. was born in New York City…
Olivette Miller (1914-2003)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Olivette Miller, a harpist, vocalist, and…
Freedom House Ambulance Service (1967-1975)
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was an emergency medical service (EMS) founded in 1967 to provide medical services to the…
The Wiley Debate Team (1924- )
The Wiley debate team’s history goes back to 1924 when Melvin Beaunorus Tolson took a job teaching English and speech…
Coleridge Bernard “C.J.” Stroud IV (2001- )
Coleridge Bernard “C.J.” Stroud IV is a American football quarterback for the Houston Texans in the National Football League (NFL).…
The 1956 Sugar Bowl Football Game Controversy (1956)
The 1956 Sugar Bowl Football Game Controversy stemmed from a college bowl game played between the Georgia Tech University Yellow…
Stephen K. Benjamin (1969- )
Stephen K. Benjamin, the first African American mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, was born Stephen Keith Benjamin on December 1,…
Abner Haynes (1937-2024)
In 1956, running back Abner Haynes and his teammate Leon King became the first Black student-athletes to play for a…
Mildred Katharine Ellis (1906-2004)
Despite losing her father at the age of three, Mildred Katherine Ellis, born on September 20, 1906, in Johnson City,…
Leon King (1938- )
Leon King in 1956, along with teammate Abner Haynes, became the first Black student-athletes to attend a previously-segregated four-year Texas…
Roy Koyo Jawara “Jay” Williams (1971- )
Youngstown, Ohio’s first African American mayor was Roy Koyo Jawara Williams, popularly known as “Jay” Williams was born in Youngstown…
James Farley Ragland, Sr. (1904-1983)
James Farley Ragland, Sr., pharmacist and poet, was born on August 24, 1904, in South Boston, Halifax, Virginia, in the…
Nicole Mitchell (1967-)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Award-winning flutist, composer, conductor, and the…
Nathaniel Trives (1934/35- )
Nathaniel “Nat” Trives, the first African American mayor of Santa Monica, California, was born in 1934 or 1935 in Birmingham,…
Dorie Ann Ladner (1942-2024)
Dorie Ann Ladner was a lifelong Civil Rights Activist, beginning with becoming a Freedom Fighter in her youth. Ladner was…
Ella Jones (1954- )
In 2020, Ella Jones became the first Black and first female mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, the St. Louis suburb that…
Kenneth Cooper-Alexander (1966-)
Kenneth Cooper Alexander became Norfolk, Virginia’s first African American mayor, a historic milestone for the Commonwealth city founded in 1682.…
Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883-1937)
Lucy Diggs Slowe was a trailblazer as an academic and athlete. In 1922, she was the first African American woman…
Edward C. Gainey (1970- )
In 2021 Ed Gainey was elected the 61st mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the first African American to be…
Albert Morris Johnson (1935-1984)
The first African American mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Albert Morris Johnson was born in Lebanon, Tennessee. His birth,…
Thomas Freeman (1919 – 2020)
World-renowned debate coach, philosopher, minister, and orator Thomas Freeman was born Thomas Franklin Freeman on June 27, 1919, in Richmond,…
Ronald Alexander Blackwood (1926-2017)
Ronald Blackwood was the first African American mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, a suburb of New York City. Blackwood…
Charles Edward “Mean Joe” Greene (1946- )
Born September 25, 1946, in Temple, Texas, Charles Edward Greene would be known to posterity by another name, “Mean Joe”…
Floyd Adams Jr. (1945-2014)
Floyd Adams Jr. made history as the first African American to be elected mayor of Savannah, Georgia’s oldest city. Adams…
Savannah Valentine Churchill (1920-1974)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Rhythm and Blues singer Savannah Valentine…
Altadena, California
Altadena, California, has one of California’s oldest and most affluent middle-class Black neighborhoods. That neighborhood was affected by the 2025…
Lulu Vere Childers (1870-1946)
Contralto, pianist, pedagogist, administrator, and advocate Lulu Vere Childers had a profound impact on African American Spirituals and European classical…
Jane Serepta Dean (1848-1913)
Jane Serepta “Jennie” Dean, a former slave, missionary, and pioneering educator, founded the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in…
Abyssinian Meeting House (1828-1917)
Abyssinian Meeting House is a historic church building at 73-75 Newbury Street, Portland, Maine. It is considered to be Maine’s…
James Robert Ford (1925-2017)
James Robert Ford was a politician, businessman, and the first African American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida. That election also made…
Frances Thompson (1840-1876)
Frances Thompson, a transgender woman and anti-rape activist became one of five Black women to testify before a congressional committee…
Kenneth E. Reeves (1951- )
Kenneth E. Reeves, the first African American Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born Kenneth Errol Reeves in Detroit, Michigan, on…
Basil Dorsey (1808-1872)
Basil Dorsey, born enslaved in Maryland, became famous for his role in successfully freeing himself. Dorsey was born in 1808…
Douglas Palmer (1951- )
Douglas Palmer, the first Black mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, was born Douglas Harold Palmer on October 19, 1951, in…
Elizabeth Mason Harden Gilmore (1910-1986)
Elizabeth Mason Harden Gilmore was a trailblazing figure, a distinguished entrepreneur, and a significant civil rights leader. She was the…
James Perkins Jr. (1953- )
James Perkins Jr. became the first African American mayor of Selma, Alabama on September 13, 2000. Perkins was born on…
Hobart Sidney Jarrett (1915-2005)
Dr. Hobart Sidney Jarrett (1915-2005) was a respected scholar, educator, and leader in Black community organizations. His contributions to African…
The Sun Bowl Football Game Controversy (1949)
The 1949 Sun Bowl Football Game Controversy involved faculty and student protests at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in response…
Chester I. Lewis, Jr. (1928-1990)
Civil rights activist Chester Isaac Lewis Jr. was born on August 8, 1928, in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Chester Isaac, Sr.,…
Little Haïti (1970- )
Between 1970 and 1972, thousands of Haïtiens left their native land and moved to the United States. Many of them…
Anton Vincent (1967- )
Anton Vincent, President of Mars Wrigley North America & Global Ice Cream since 2019, the largest subsidiary of Mars Inc.,…
Rex Richardson (1983- )
The first African American mayor of Long Beach, California, Rex Richardson was born at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois…
Damola Adamolekun (1989- )
Damola Adamolekun is a Nigerian-American business executive and restauranteur. He was the first Black CEO of P. F. Chang’s, a…
Charles Redmond Douglass (1844-1920)
Charles Remond Douglass, born on October 21, 1844, in Lynn, Massachusetts, was the fourth child and youngest son of famed…
Thomas Berkley (1915–2001)
Attorney, newspaper publisher, and world-class athlete Thomas Lucius Berkley was born Thomas Lucius Berkley on August 9, 1915, in DuQuoin,…
Dunbar Apartments, Harlem, New York (1926- )
Named after the famous poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments…
Blessing Adeyemi ‘Yemi’ Mobolade (1979- )
The first Black mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Blessing Adeyemi (popularly known as Yemi) Mobolade was born in Lagos, Nigeria…
(1967) Reitman v. Mulkey
387 U.S. 369 (1967)REITMAN ET AL.v.MULKEY ET AL.No. 483.Supreme Court of United States.Argued March 20-21, 1967.Decided May 29, 1967.CERTIORARI TO…
Mboka Mwilambwe (1970- )
Mboka Mwilambwe, born 1970 in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was elected as the first African…
Inez Beverly Prosser (1895-1934)
Inez Beverly Prosser was a teacher, school administrator, psychologist, and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in…
Angelou Ezeilo (1970- )
Environmental advocate Angelou Ezeilo was born December 11, 1970, in Jersey City, New Jersey to parents Helen and Walter Chiles.…
A.J. Calloway (1974- )
Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway was born Albert Johnson Calloway Jr. on August 29, 1974, to Ava Claire Calloway and…
Bisila Bokoko (1974- )
Bisila Bokoko, the award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, women’s advocate, and global leadership speaker, was born Bisila África Bokoko Toichoa in Valencia,…
The 2nd Cavalry Division (1941-1944)
The 2nd Cavalry Division was unique the U.S. Army in World II in that it was composed of Black and…
Martine Watkins (1980 -)
Martine Watkins, born in June 1980, became the first biracial mayor of Santa Cruz City, California, in 2020 and served…