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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.
Pollard goes on to become the first African-American coach in the NFL. January 16 – Zeta Phi Beta sorority founded at Howard University; 1921. May 23 – Shuffle Along is the first major African-American hit musical on Broadway. May 31 – Tulsa Race Riot, Oklahoma; Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American to earn a pilot's license. 1922
African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale ...
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
When Garrido died in 1550, other Africans, free and enslaved, had already made their mark on this new world. In 1521, a few months after Ponce de Leon died from thigh meat poisoning, Lucas ...
ISBN. 978-1573929639. 100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley. First published in 1992, Salley's book is ...
First African-American elected to a statewide office in Illinois: Roland Burris, office of Comptroller. First African-American elected to a statewide office in Wisconsin: Vel Phillips, office of Secretary of State. 1980. First African-American speaker of the California State Assembly: Willie Lewis Brown Jr.
First African-American NBA general manager to win the NBA Finals: Joe Dumars ( Detroit Pistons ), 2004 NBA Finals. First African-American Canadian Football League head coach to reach (and win) the Grey Cup: Pinball Clemons ( Toronto Argonauts ), 92nd Grey Cup. First African-American inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame: Charlie Sifford.