*Anna M. Mangin’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1844. She was a Black inventor, educator, and caterer. She was born Anna Matilda Barker in Louisiana. On her 1877 marriage application, she listed her parents as Jacob Barker and P. [Polly?] Shelton. Jacob Barker was a white-American planter, merchant, and politician. Barker, a native […]
learn more*Black history and the term ‘Mammy’ is affirmed on March 24, 1830. This is a historical American labeled stereotype describing Black women, usually enslaved, doing domestic work, including nursing white children of slave owners. The fictionalized mammy character is often a dark-skinned woman with a motherly personality. The origin of the mammy figure stereotype is […]
learn more*The Fairvue Plantation is affirmed on this date in 1832. The Fairvue was a plantation house in Gallatin, Tennessee. It was built for Isaac Franklin. Franklin retired to be a planter there after a career as a partner in the South’s largest slave-trading firm before the American Civil War. After his death, his widow inherited […]
learn more*WDIA radio went on the air on this date in 1947. WDIA (1070 AM) is a Black radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. Active since WW 2, it soon became the first radio station in the United States programmed entirely for African Americans. It featured Black radio personalities; its success in building an audience attracted radio […]
learn moreDr. Peter Rachleff is an author, professor, administrator, historian, and activist. In this segment, he chronicles his essential research into the black-and-white compensation episode efforts right after the American Civil War.
learn more*Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham was born on this date in 1817. She was a white-American planter and slave trader. Adelicia Hayes was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Her parents were Northerners: her father was Oliver Bliss Hayes, a lawyer and later Presbyterian minister from South Hadley, Massachusetts. Her mother was Sarah Clements (Hightower) Hayes. They […]
learn more*The Franklin and Armfield Office opened on February 28, 1828. This office of American slave trading is a historic commercial building in Alexandria, Virginia (until 1846, the District of Columbia). The 1315 Duke Street building is located just west of Alexandria’s Old Town, on the north side of Duke Street, between Southwest and South Payne […]
learn more*Isaac Franklin was born on this date in 1789. He was a white-American slave trader and plantation owner. Isaac Franklin was born in Sumner County, TN, to Mary (née Lauderdale) and James Franklin Sr., who came from western North Carolina. James Franklin Sr. served Lord Dunmore during the American Revolutionary War and assisted in the construction […]
learn more*William Darity Sr. was born on January 15, 1924. He was a Black public health advocate, academic administrator, and activist. William Alexander (Bill) Darity Sr. was born in East Flat Rock, N.C. Neither of his parents, Aden Randall and Elizabeth Smith Darity, had been educated beyond the sixth grade. Still, they managed to provide a […]
learn more*John A. Lomax Jr. was born on this date in 1907. He was a white-American folklorist, performer, and land developer. John A. Lomax Jr. was born in Austin, Texas, United States. He was the son of John Avery Lomax and Bess Bauman Brown and the brother of Shirley Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Bess Lomax. He […]
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