Month: February 2018
Black history fact post!
©Sarah Breedlove–who later would come to be known as Madam C. J. Walker–was born on December 23, 1867 on the same Delta, Louisiana plantation where her parents, Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, had been enslaved before the end of the Civil War. This child of sharecroppers transformed herself from an uneducated farm laborer and […]
Black history fact post!
Carter G. Woodson was an African-American writer and historian known as the ‘Father of Black History.’ He penned the influential book ‘The Mis-Education of the Negro.’ Who Was Carter G. Woodson? Born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, after W.E.B. Du […]