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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer who served as Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873. Pinchback was the first African-American governor and the second lieutenant governor (after Oscar Dunn) in the United
John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center Hartford: Connecticut: 1991 [88] John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture: Tallahassee: Florida: 1996 [89] Josephine School Community Museum: Berryville: Virginia: 2003 [90] Kansas African-American Museum Wichita: Kansas: 1997 [91] L.E. Coleman African-American Museum ...
The museum has two rotating art galleries as well as four permanent exhibits honoring African-American history in Austin and beyond. Six Square is a non-profit organization based in Central East Austin that preserves the art, culture, and history of Austin’s African American community.
First African-American governor of Louisiana: P. B. S. Pinchback (Also first in U.S.) (non-elected; see also Douglas Wilder, 1990) (Also first elected senator but was denied seat) [3] 1873; First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch
Manny Garcia, Austin American-Statesman January 7, 2024 at 8:01 AM Sharred DeLeon and son Kon DeLeon look at the Tyrannosaur in the Texas Science & Natural History Museum on Sept. 17.
Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America is a television special which first aired in the US on January 11, 2017, on ABC. The program was broadcast again in 2020. [1] The two-hour special documented the September 2016 inauguration ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. [2]
A vast photo archive of two iconic African American publications documenting 20th-century Black life has been transferred to the Smithsonian The post Smithsonian African American museum, Getty ...
According to writer and food scholar Dr. Scott Alves Barton, “Yams are considered to be the most common African staple aboard Middle Passage ships; some estimates say 100,000 yams fed 500 ...