American history is full of African American trailblazers and pathfinders. Some names, like Barack Obama, are familiar to most of us. Others may not be as familiar, though they certainly should be! Black history is full of originators, inventors, and movers and shakers, including the first Afr...
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February is also Black History Month, so we begin our series by highlighting past and present African American inventors who’ve made great contributions to their fields. People such asThomas Jennings and Judy Reed, the first African American man and woman to receive patents for their ideas. In...
Crispus Attucks (1723? - March 5, 1770) was the first American to die for the Revolutionary cause: "The first to defy, the first to die." Attucks was shot in the "Boston Massacre," the first fight leading up to the Revolutionary War. Attucks was the American son of a native ...
sat down withRay Fouché, the director and associate professor of Purdue University's American studies program. Discussion topics included his iconic skyhook shot, the importance of social activism and his 2012 children's book,What Color is My World: The Lost ...
all at once. Americans do not believe in allowing their men to have multiple women. The African American men are struggling to suppress their natural desire to sleep with several women, and they are trying to deal with what the society has considered a social norm – one man one wife. So...
Black History Month Facts Carter G. Woodson is recognized as the “Father of Black History Month.” In 1926, Carter G. Woodson started celebrating "Negro History Week" (the precursor of Black History Month) to commemorate the hard work of African Americans in American society. ...
African Americans have always played a vital role in shaping that history. Our Black Heritage stamp series, which began in 1978 with a stamp honoring Harriet Tubman, along with many other stamps, has paid tribute to African-American leaders, inventors, educators, scientists, entrepreneurs, entertain...
patentee, but subsequent research would show that an 1821 patent obtained by Thomas Jennings was the earliest known to have been obtained by an African American. See the data appendix, Appendix I, for an explanation of approaches for identifying African American inventors, including the Baker ...
African/African-American History Month. Beyond Victoriana has done features relating to this event in the past (check out our stuff onBlack Victoriana in 2010andAfrican/African-American Heritage series in 2011) and this year I want to spotlight a venture by Alicia McCalla:The State of Black Sc...