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Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617032301. Seniors, Paula Marie (Winter 2008). "Cole and Johnson's "The Red Moon", 1908-1910: Reimagining African American and Native American Female Education at Hampton Institute". The Journal of African American History. 93 (1). University of Chicago Press ...
African Americans. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1][2] Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally ...
"The desegregation of land-grant institutions in the 1950s: The first African American students at NC State University and Virginia Tech." The Journal of Negro Education 88.1 (2019): 75-92. online; Wallenstein, Peter. Virginia Tech, land-grant university, 1872–1997: History of a school, a state, a nation (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021) online
The "Santa Experience," an annual event held at the mall in Bloomington, Minn., includes the most diverse group of Santas, including Santa Pat, a Santa who is Black. Santa Allan Siu, the mall’s ...
The First African Baptist Church was the first African-American church west of the Mississippi River. [21] It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
After spending 13 years in athletic administration at Georgia, Williams became the first African-American woman to lead an athletic department at a Power 5 school (ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12). She joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as an athletic director in 2017. [15][16] She began her tenure at the institution by ...
Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American ...