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Rachel Knight (1840 - February 11, 1889) was the African-American common-law wife to Newton Knight (1829-1922). In 1881 she was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . She was depicted by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Gary Ross ' 2016 feature film Free State of Jones .
International Women's Strike 2018, Buenos Aires. The International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women, [1] shortly known as B.L.A.C Women's Day, also known as the International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day [2] and International Afro-descendant Women's Day (Spanish: Día Internacional de la Mujer Afrodescendiente), [3] is linked to Afrofeminism ...
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye (18 June 1793 [1] – April or May 1870), also known as Anna Kingsley, Anta Majigeen Njaay or Anna Madgigine Jai, [2] was a West African from present-day Senegal, who was enslaved and sold in Cuba, probably via the slave pens on Gorée Island.
The Fultz sisters (born May 23, 1946) were a set of American quadruplets who gained notoriety for being the first identical African American quadruplets on record. They made promotional appearances for Pet Milk in a deal that provided their family land, a house, and a full-time nurse. The sisters were later adopted by the nurse.
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa. [48] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil, Colombia and Haiti.
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
Her mother was an indentured African woman, and her father was Thomas Key, an English planter and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, representing Warwick County, today's Newport News. Thomas Key's legal white wife lived across the James River in Isle of Wight County, Virginia , where she owned considerable property.
Johnnetta Betsch was born in Jacksonville, Florida, [3] on October 19, 1936. [4] Her family belonged to the African-American upper class; She was a granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Florida's first black millionaire, entrepreneur and cofounder of the Afro-American Industrial and Benefit Association, [5] and Mary Kingsley Sammis.