Category: History
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Discover how Bernice Redmon became Canada’s first Black registered nurse in 1945, breaking racial barriers and pioneering public health nursing despite widespread discrimination.
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Annapolis honors Parren J. Mitchell, Maryland’s first Black congressman, with a new memorial celebrating his civil rights legacy and public service.
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Joan Means Khabele’s courageous swim-in protest helped end segregation at Barton Springs Pool. Austin honors her by naming the bathhouse after her.
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John Hope, the first Black president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, transformed African American higher education and championed civil rights in the early 1900s.
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Discover how Cornelius Golightly led Detroit’s schools and challenged academic spaces as the first Black president of the Detroit Board of Education and a pioneering philosophy professor at Wayne State.
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Inez Beverly Prosser, first Black female psychologist, school integration research, Black psychologists history, CU Boulder alumni, educational psychology, Brown v. Board, W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP The Crisis, Black education pioneers
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Discover how Mary Annette Anderson, the first African American woman valedictorian at Middlebury College, transformed education and inspired generations.
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A century after his denied England call-up, football legend Jack Leslie is honoured with a blue plaque in Plymouth for his remarkable career and resilience against racism.
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Sylvia Mathis made history as the first Black woman to join the FBI in 1976, defying the odds and breaking barriers within one of the nation’s most prestigious agencies.
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Wilberforce Mfum, Ghana’s first AFCON goalscorer and football icon, has passed away at 88. Learn about his remarkable life and legacy.
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