January 5, 1943 George Washington Carver, scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, died. Carver was born enslaved on July 12, 1864 in Diamond, Missouri. Carver and his family were freed after slavery was abolished. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and his Master of Science degree in 1896 from Iowa State Agricultural College […]
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January 1st in African American History – Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
January 1, 2005 Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, educator and politician, died. Chisholm was born November 30, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1946 and her Master of Arts degree in elementary education from Columbia University in 1952. From 1953 to 1959, she was director […]
December 17th in African American History – Dorothy Porter Wesley
December 17, 1995 Dorothy Porter Wesley, librarian and curator, died. Wesley was born May 25, 1905 in Warrenton, Virginia. She earned her A.B. degree from Howard University in 1928 and bachelor and master’s degrees in library science from Columbia University in 1931 and 1932, respectively. From 1928 to her retirement in 1973, Wesley assembled and […]
December 9th in African American History – Toni Cade Bambara
December 9, 1995 Toni Cade Bambara, author, social activist and college professor, died. Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939 in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theater at Queens College in 1959 and her Master of Arts degree in African fiction at City College […]
November 28th in African American History – Elbert Frank Cox
November 28, 1969 Elbert Frank Cox, the first black person in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, died. Cox was born December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Indiana in 1917. After serving in the United States Army in France […]
November 14th in African American History – Booker Taliaferro Washington
November 14, 1915 Booker Taliaferro Washington, educator, author and political leader, died. Washington was born enslaved on April 5, 1856 on the Burroughs Plantation in Virginia. His family gained their freedom at the end of the Civil War and Washington was educated at Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. In 1881, Washington was appointed the first […]
November 7th in African American History – Vertner Woodson Tandy
November 7, 1949 Vertner Woodson Tandy, architect and one of the founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, died. Tandy was born May 17, 1885 in Lexington, Kentucky. While attending Cornell University, in 1906 Tandy was one of the seven founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first African American Greek letter fraternity. Tandy earned his […]