by Sandra | Apr 9, 2019 | Black Leaders, Videos
Frederick Postell Patterson was the first manufacturer, owner, and operator of Greenfield-Patterson Automobile Company. His first car debuted in 1915, built-in Ohio,the car competed with the Model T by Henry Ford and cost $850. Patterson’s carwas possibly more...
by Sandra | Mar 15, 2019 | Education
Anthony Johnson Did you know that a black man, Anthony Johnson, won a court case in Northampton County Court in 1655 to keep his slave, John Casor, and the ruling became the first legal sanction of slavery in America? Johnson arrived in Jamestown in 1619, was treated...
by Sandra | Mar 6, 2019 | Black Leaders, Education
Eric Foner compiled an excellent reference book, Freedom’s Lawmakers, that contains collective biographies of more than 1500 black Reconstruction lawmakers. Democratic ex-Confederate leaders painted blacks as lazy, ignorant, incompetent buffoons, to undermine their...
by Sandra | Mar 3, 2019 | Revisionism
“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history” Carter G. Woodson Carter G Woodson, the father of Black History Month, in 1915, established the Association for the Study...
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