The first African American museum in Nevada has operated ... tens of thousands of Black history-related artifacts, including magazines, books, dolls, postage stamps, figurines, clothes and ...

In the late 1770s, George Lisle, an emancipated slave, became a Christian in his master’s church and later started the first African-American Baptist church in Georgia. He is also thought to be ...

I’ve concluded that African-American history might best be viewed as a series of great migrations, during which immigrants—at first forced and then free—transformed an alien place into a ...

Walker owns and operated the Walker African American Museum and Research Center, the first African American ... showcasing artifacts and books, magazines and newspaper articles on notable Black ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

St. Elmo Brady (1884-1966) was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the U.S. After receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1916, ...