President’s Trump's push to eliminate DEI from Federal agencies through Executive Orders almost took out the story of an ...
De Priest of Illinois, the first African American elected to Congress in the ... was temporarily promoted to brigadier ...
One of those people is Dr. Joycelen Elders, the first African American woman to serve as the U.S. Surgeon General and a passionate advocate for public health and education. Joycelyn was born in ...
1975 - Austin is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army upon graduation from West Point. Over the next 20 years, he holds a number of leadership positions and is stationed at bases in ...
Of those leaders to be commissioned, one later became the U.S. military’s first African-American general officer, said Acosta. “Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was one of these men,” he said. “Davis Sr. was the ...
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first ... "There is reason to believe that the general public did not completely sense the size of her contribution to the ...
Founders Day serves as a time to reflect on Hampton University's storied history, which began in 1868 when General Samuel ... nearly every aspect of African American progress since the end of ...
An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.