Bessie Coleman was born to sharecroppers in Texas ... a one-room wooden shack located four miles from her house. Her classroom often lacked basic supplies like paper and pencils, and, like all ...
Bessie Coleman left her mark on Jacksonville and ... Visitors pose in front of the bath house at Butler's Beach, a beach for Black residents of St. Johns County. In 1947, Black residents weren ...
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
The Thankful Heritage Museum is a nonprofit that has traveled all over North Carolina for 31 years, sharing Black history and culture through its mobile museum displays. Right now, it has a unique ...
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
Bessie Coleman was the first Black American woman ... In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the head of the White House Conference on Aging, a position she held until 1981.
Although it likely would have been a MAGA wet dream, the Jim Crow era was a dark and dangerous time for our people.
(FILE PHOTO) Civil-aviation pioneer Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman (1892-1926 ... Craft lived in the house at 2618 Warren Ave. that’s now a museum dedicated to her The Juanita J.