This date celebrates the establishment in 1864 of America’s first daily Black newspaper.
learn more*Wayne Cox was born on this date in 1864. He was a Black teacher, administrator, and businessman.
learn more*The birth of Anthony Crawford is celebrated on this date in 1865. He was a Black businessman. From Abbeville, South Carolina, Anthony P. Crawford’s mother and father were Thomas Crawford and Phoebe Williams. His grandfather, Charles Crawford, born in 1780, survived the Middle Passage. He had three brothers and sisters, Sanders Crawford, Andrew Crawford, Jackson […]
learn more*The Freedman’s Savings Bank opened on this date in 1865. It was the first federal bank in America. Also known as the Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, it was a private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress to collect deposits from newly emancipated slaves. At the end of the American Civil War, the poor […]
learn more*The birth of Anthony Overton on this date in 1865 is celebrated on this date. He was an African American lawyer and businessman.
learn more*Jesse Binga was born on this date in 1865. He was an African American businessman.
learn more*This date celebrates the birth of Lyda D. Newman, who was born on this date in 1865. She was a Black inventor and advocate for women’s suffrage. Newman was born in Ohio but spent most of her life living and working in Manhattan, New York City, in San Juan Hill. Records indicate that she may have […]
learn more*The Nation was published on this date in 1865. It is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, covering progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper that closed in 1865 after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A collaborator of the […]
learn more*The birth of Richard W. Thompson is celebrated on this date in 1865. He was a Black postal clerk and journalist. Richard W. Thompson was born in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky. His father was an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Connection Church minister and died in 1872. later that year, he moved with his mother, Jane, […]
learn more*This date in 1865 celebrates the founding of Kendleton, Texas. Kendleton is a city in western Fort Bend County and one of many Black Towns (settlements) throughout America. History What is now Kendleton was a part of William E. Kendall’s plantation. In the 1860s, Kendall divided his property into various small farms and sold the plots to […]
learn more*On this date in 1865, sharecropping is briefly described. Sharecropping historically is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50 percent of the crop). We chose this date because the 13th […]
learn more*Alfred Cralle was born on this date in 1866. He was a Black businessman and inventor. Alfred L. Cralle was born in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American Civil War. He attended local schools and worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man, becoming interested in […]
learn more*On this date in 1866, the first issue of the Freedman’s Torchlight was published. This was a monthly publication published by the African Civilization Society and was circulated among communities of Blacks in the historic Weeksville community in central Brooklyn during the mid-1800s. To Become an Editor To Become a Desktop Publisher
learn more*George Washington Foster was born on this date in 1866. He was a Black architect. George Washington Foster, Jr., was born in Virginia. His father was a Black carriage stripper, and his white mother was a descendant of Jefferson Davis. He moved to Newark, New Jersey, at the age of four. Foster attended night school at Cooper […]
learn more*Mary Evans Wilson’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1866. She was a Black teacher, journalist, and civil rights advocate. Mary Evans came from a family of activists. In 1858, her father was one of a group of men arrested for the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue. Her uncle, Lewis Sheridan Leary, was killed in John Brown’s raid on Harpers […]
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