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e. 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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite . Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...
In 1989, Douglas Wilder became the first African American elected governor in U.S. history. Clarence Thomas succeeded Marshall to become the second African American Supreme Court Justice in 1991. In 1992, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate. There were 8,936 Black officeholders in ...
Smith. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought ...
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly ( c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [ 2][ 3] Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America ...