This category is to celebrate Blacks around the world who have contributed greatly to the progression and unification of the Black race
Mary Eliza Mahoney is the First African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. She was also the first black person to graduate from the American School of Nursing. Her contribution to the nursing profession positively redefined how many Americans perceived black people in the field. Mary Eliza Mahoney […]
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Velvalea Hortense Rodgers “Vel” Phillips was an American lawmaker and politician who was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is also the first African American and first woman elected to the Milwaukee Common Council. Due to her wit and knowledge of the law, Vel Phillips is
Prudencia Ayala was a renowned writer, activist, and women’s rights campaigner in El Salvador. She was a black woman of afro-indigenous descent who was the first woman to run for President in El Salvador and Latin America. Added to her political and literary life, Ayala was said to be a fortune teller. She claimed to
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Mansa Musa ruled the Kingdom of Mali from 1312 to 1337. At the time of Musa’s ascension to the throne, Mali consisted of the territory of the former Ghana Empire, which Mali had conquered two hundred years earlier. Mansa Musa also had Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, and The Gambia under his control. The Mali Empire was
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Nwanyeruwa was an Igbo woman from southeastern Nigeria during the colonial era who organized and led 10,000 Nigerian women to protest against the exploitative taxation system imposed by the British colonial administration. That revolt is generally called the Aba Women’s War of 1929. Her actions were cited as a significant piece of relevance in the
Hilarius Gilges is one of the few documented and popular examples of Afro-Germans who actively stood to oppose the rise of Hitler’s Nazism in Germany before the onset of World II. While combatting the ideological flaws of Nazism, Gilges was also a victim of racial prejudice. Hilarius Gilges was killed at the age of 24.
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Aunty Polly Jackson was a bold and fearless black woman who took up arms to protect and safeguard runaway slaves from anti-abolitionists and white slavers. Dressed like an old woman, Aunty Polly was able to perfectly disguise herself while she would carry a butcher’s knife and a pot of boiling water to fight off anti-abolitionists
Ernest Fredric Morrison was an American child actor, comedian, and dancer who performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy Morrison. He was the only black East Side Kids/Dead End Kids member. He was the first African-American actor to be signed for a long-term contract. Ernest Morrison was born on December 20, 1912, to Louise (Lewis) and
The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting in many deaths. By 1956 the uprising had effectively been crushed, but the extent of opposition to the British regime had clearly been demonstrated and Kenya was set on the path to independence, which was finally achieved in 1963.
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When Mary Eliza Mahoney, R.N. became the first professionally educated African-American nurse in 1879, she changed the trajectory of American nursing forever.
