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Poindexter, James (1819-1907)
James Poindexter clergyman, abolitionist, politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Richmond Virginia in 1819. He attended school in Richmond until he was about sixteen when he started to apprentice as a barber. In 1837 Poindexter married Adelia Atkinson and the coupled moved to
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Source: Black Past
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7
1907
Garnet, Henry Highland (1815-1882)
Born into slavery near New Markey, Maryland on December 23, 1815, Henry Highland Garnet escaped from bondage via the Underground Railroad with his parents, George and Henrietta Trusty in 1824. After residing briefly in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the family settled in New York City, New York
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23
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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816- )
Emanuel A.M.E. Church is the oldest black A.M.E. Church in the South and contains the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, Maryland.  The church’s early roots emerged out of slavery in a shared legacy with Charleston (South Carolina) Methodist Episcopal Church in 1791. Due to disputes over
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Beacon Hill Barbershops
In 19th-century Black Boston, centered on the north slope of Beacon Hill, the local barbershop was an important forum for the discussion of political ideas, the exchange of community information, and the posting of job openings. Peter Howard's shop and John J. Smith's barbershop, both at the foot
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland but in 1838, at age 20, he escaped to freedom in New York. A few years later he went to work for abolitionist William Lloyd
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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”
Rev. Theodore S. Wright, (1797-1847) was born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island. By the 1830s Wright was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Wright, a dedicated abolitionist, attended the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
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Slave narrative
The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some six thousand former slaves from North America and the Caribbean gave accounts of
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Harriet Tubman Biography - Life and Accomplishments
Harriet Tubman (1821 - 1913)  led over 200 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Contemporaries called her Moses and General Tubman in praise of her bravery and leadership. Frederick Douglass lauded Tubmans courage by saying,  Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory
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‘Y'all Know Who Her Grandfather Is’: Porsha Williams Joins Protest, Starts Chants on Streets of Atlanta
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James Martin of Bocadillo Market Puts a Spanish Spin on the Sandwich - Cuisine Noir Magazine
In the hands of chef James Martin, a simple sandwich is transformed into a fine dining experience. In his jewel box of an eatery located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, guests at Bocadillo Market enjoy dishes that merge the flavors of Martin’s South Carolina roots with that of Spanish
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When Ohio residents rallied to protect fugitive slave Addison White from U.S. Marshals
When Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1793 and 1850, it allowed federal marshals to arrest slaves that had escaped to the North and take them back to their southern owners, as well as, arrest northerners suspected of aiding runaway
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Second Baptist Church of Detroit (1836- )
The Second Baptist Church of Detroit, located in the Greektown district of downtown Detroit, is the oldest African American congregation in Michigan and, according to some sources, the
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Harriet Tubman Picture Gallery
Pictures of Harriet Tubman, escaped slave, Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War soldier and spy, and advocate of human rights. Only a few photographs survive of Harriet Tubman; here are a few images of that determined and courageous
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Elijah McCoy
Although the name Elijah McCoy may be unknown to most people,the enormity of his ingenuity and the quality of his inventions have created a level of distinction which bears his
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Black Indians in the United States
Black Indians are people of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, who have strong ties to Native American culture.[2] Many Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands, such as the Narragansett, Pequot, Lumbee and Cherokee, have a significant degree of African
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Matthews, William Dominick (ca. 1833-ca. 1910)
William Dominick Matthews was a Civil War officer in the Union Army and is best known for leading the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. Matthews was born a free man in October 25th, 1827, on the eastern shore of Maryland to parents who were interracially married. His father Joseph was
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INTERVIEW: Why Nigerians should be patient with President Tinubu - Osita Iheme
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Stop Paying Lip Service And Let Me Breathe - Blavity
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John Parker
John P. Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was white and his mother was a black slave. John was sold to a slave agent in 1835 and then sold to a slave caravan which took him to Mobile, Alabama where he was purchased by a physician. Working as a house servant, Parker learned to
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 [4] – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in
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First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia (1773– )
First African Baptist Church, located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, is recognized as one of the nations oldest African American Baptist Churches. Although the church was not officially established until 1788, the original congregation of mostly enslaved individuals had been formed
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Carney, William H. (1840-1908)
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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey
William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history.  In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black
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Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden , in full Robert Earl Hayden, original name Asa Bundy Sheffey (born August 4, 1913, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died February 25, 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan), African American poet whose subject matter is most often the black
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Tandy, Charleton (1836-1919)
Charleton Tandy was born in Kentucky in 1836 to parents who were free only because his grandparents had purchased the family’s freedom three years before his birth.  Throughout his childhood, Tandy’s family worked to free slaves through the Underground Railroad, and as a young man, Tandy often led
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Palmer, Ronald DeWayne (1932-2014)
Ronald DeWayne Palmer, U.S. ambassador to three nations—Togo, Malaysia, and Mauritius—was born on May 22, 1932, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Bordeaux in France from 1954 to 1955 and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Howard University in 1955. He received an
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African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1792- )
Originally established as The African Church, The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in 1792 by and for persons of African descent to foster personal and religious freedoms and self-determination. The original African Church was an outgrowth of the Free African Society, a mutual aid
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