*Anna Tanneyhill was born on this date in 1906. She was an African American administrator, writer and activist.
learn more*Amy Barbour-James was born on January 25, 1906. She was a Black British-born Guyanese civil rights activist and civil servant. Caroline Amy Aileen Barbour-James was born in Acton, London, to Guyanese parents, John and Caroline Barbour-James, one of their eight children. They were a middle-class family. Her father, John Barbour-James, was an administrator in West […]
learn more*Paul Cornely was born on this date in 1906. He was a Black physician, public health pioneer, and activist. Paul Bertau Cornely was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His mother was Adrienne Mellon, and his father was Eleodore Cornely. At the age of three, his family moved to Puerto Rico. He moved to the United States as […]
learn more*Corinthian Nutter was born on this date in 1906. She was a Black teacher, musician, and education activist. Corinthian Clay Ricks (her birth name) was born in Forney, Texas, to Robert R. and Roxie Anna (Ford) Ricks. Her father worked for the railroad. Her mother was an itinerant worker, and Nutter was frequently taken out […]
learn moreHelen J. Claytor was born on this date in 1907. She was an African American educator, YWCA administrator, and activist.
learn more*Col. Leon H. Washington Jr. was born on this date in 1907. He was a Black newspaper publisher. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, and attended Washburn University. Washington began his career in journalism by working for several newspapers. In 1933, he founded the Sentinel, an African American newspaper in Los Angeles. During this time, Washington […]
learn moreOliver W Hill, Sr., an African American attorney and activist, was born on this date in 1907.
learn more*Hazel Harvey Peace was born on this date in 1907. She was a Black educator, activist, and humanitarian. She was born Hazel Bernice Harvey in Waco, Texas, to Allen H. and Georgia Mason Harvey; the family moved to Fort Worth as a baby. Peace’s father was a Pullman Porter on the Missouri and Pacific Railroad, and her […]
learn more*Lulu Belle Madison White was born on this date in 1907. She was a Black teacher and activist in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. Lulu Belle Madison was born in Elmo, Texas, to Samuel Henry Madison and Easter Madison. She was the tenth of their twelve children. Elmo was a predominately black community thirty-five […]
learn moreOn this date in 1907, Shirley Graham DuBois was born. She was an African American author, playwright, composer, and activist.
learn more*Oseola McCarty was born on this date in 1908. She was an African American domestic and philanthropist.
learn more*Vernon Dahmer was born on this date in 1908. He was an African American business owner and civil right activist. Born in the Kelly Settlement, Forrest County, Mississippi, his parents were Ellen Louvenia (Kelly) and George Washington Dahmer. George Dahmer was a Caucasian man identified as being an honest, hardworking man with outstanding integrity. His occupation was […]
learn more*Dorothy McFarland was born on this date in 1908. She was a Black teacher (music and early childhood) and community activist. Dorothy Hall was born at 996 Iglehart Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. Raised in the Rondo community, her home was later added to the National Register of Historic Places due to her father’s civic […]
learn moreEdler Garnett Hawkins was born on this date in 1908. He was an African American minister and civil rights activist through the Presbyterian Church.
learn more*On this date in 1908, we celebrate the beginning of the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs (ESFWC). Founded in Brooklyn by Alice Wiley Seay, the ESFWC is the umbrella organization of New York State African American women’s groups. The organization had two main goals: to do “uplift work among girls and young women” and care […]
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