Dr. Rosilyn Carroll is a professor, education administrator, minister, and author. In this segment, she shares a few of her favorite books and three words that best describe her.
learn more*Adele Logan Alexander was born on this date in 1938. She is an author and Black professor of history. Born Adele Logan in New York City, she was an only child of Arthur C. Logan and Wenonah Bond and the only granddaughter of Educator Adela Hunt. Logan attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New […]
learn more*Samuel Greenlee was born on July 13, 1930. He was a Black writer of fiction and poetry. Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr., was born in Chicago, Illinois, to singer and dancer Desoree Alexander and railroad man and union activist Samuel Greenlee. He grew up in West Woodlawn, attended Englewood High School, and, in 1948, won a […]
learn more*Madeline W. Murphy was born on October 24, 1922. She was a Black writer and community activist. Madeline Wheeler was born in Boston and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the second of three children of Arthur E. Wheeler, Sr., and Madeline (née Hall) Brooks. Murphy attended Wilmington public schools and graduated from Howard High […]
learn more*Dena Epstein was born on this date in 1916. She was a white Jewish-American music librarian, author, and musicologist. Dena Julia Polacheck was born in Milwaukee to William Polacheck and Hilda Satt. She studied music at the University of Chicago and library science at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1943. She worked as a […]
learn more*Eric Foner was born on this date in 1943. He is a white Jewish-American historian and author. Foner was born in New York City, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Liza (née Kraitz), a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. Foner, who was active in the trade union movement and the campaign […]
learn more*Fanny Ellison was born on this date in 1911. She was a Black editor, writer, and literary activist. Born Fannie Mae McConnell in Louisville, Kentucky, she was the daughter of Ulysses McConnell and Willie Mae Brock. Her parents divorced when she was a year old, and her mother took her to Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. […]
learn more*Luís Gama was born on this date in 1830. He was an Afro Brazilian self-taught lawyer, abolitionist, orator, journalist, and writer. He was a black intellectual in 19th-century slave-owning Brazil who spent his life fighting for the abolition of slavery and for the end of the monarchy in Brazil. Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama was born in […]
learn more*The Brownies’ Book publication is celebrated on this date in 1919. This was the first magazine published for African American children and youth in the United States. Three people created the magazine. Its editor was W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the NAACP, and its business manager was Augustus Granville Dill. The magazine’s […]
learn more*Pilar Barrios was born on this date in 1889. He was an Afro-Uruguayan poet. He was born in Rocha Department, Uruguay, with a brother, Ventura, and a sister, Maria, both writers. Barrios was an essential poet of the Black community of Uruguay and one of the founders of the Partido Autóctono Negro. His poetry demonstrated an understanding of […]
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