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Ann Lowe: The African American Fashion Designer Who Created Jacqueline Kennedy’s Wedding Dress

Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016December 26, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016December 26, 20200

Ann Cole Lowe was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe’s one-of-a-kind designs were a favorite among high society matrons from...

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James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching

Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016January 6, 2019

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016January 6, 20192

[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...

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David Stuurman: Leader of the Khoi people

Meserette KentakeFebruary 22, 2016April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 22, 2016April 15, 20180

David Stuurman was a leader of the Khoi people, who fought against Dutch and the British colonialism in the Eastern Cape. Stuurman played a key...

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Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement

Meserette KentakeFebruary 20, 2016June 11, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 20, 2016June 11, 20200

Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The farm was...

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Empress Taytu: Warrior Queen of the 1896 Battle of Adwa

Meserette KentakeFebruary 11, 2016March 2, 2026

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 11, 2016March 2, 20260

Taytu Betul was a formidable queen and empress of Ethiopia (1889–1913). She was the wife of Emperor Menelek II and was also the inspiration behind...

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St. Josephine Bakhita: The only patron saint of Sudan

Meserette KentakeFebruary 8, 2016April 21, 2018

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 8, 2016April 21, 20180

St. Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born woman who was enslaved before becoming a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years....

Afropean History Makers

Zamor: The Black Jacobin

Meserette KentakeFebruary 7, 2016July 22, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 7, 2016July 22, 20201

Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery in the household of Louis XV’s mistress,...

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Peter Hill: The First African-American Clockmaker

Meserette KentakeFebruary 2, 2016June 19, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 2, 2016June 19, 20200

Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...

Afropean History Makers

Hilarius Gilges: Murdered by the Nazis

Meserette KentakeJanuary 27, 2016February 10, 2026

by Meserette KentakeJanuary 27, 2016February 10, 20261

Hilarius ‘Lari’ Gilges was an Afro‑German amateur actor and political activist who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 24. Gilges, known as...

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Ora Mae Washington: The forgotten Queen of Tennis

Meserette KentakeJanuary 23, 2016April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeJanuary 23, 2016April 15, 20180

Ora Mae Washington was an African-American tennis player known as the “Queen of Tennis” in her Philadelphia neighborhood. Washington was an accomplished all-around athlete, excelling...

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