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Jesse B. Blayton founded W.E.R.D in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 3, 1949, making him the first African American to own ...
20/02/2024

Jesse B. Blayton founded W.E.R.D in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 3, 1949, making him the first African American to own and operate a radio station in the United States. The station was the first to play music catering to the Black audience and the station was housed in the same building as the SCLC. They would broadcast updates on the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr. would often come upstairs to the station to give personal statements.

Margaret was a poet and writer who grew up inspired by the works of Langston Hughes and others. After she met him, he en...
18/02/2024

Margaret was a poet and writer who grew up inspired by the works of Langston Hughes and others. After she met him, he encouraged her to keep writing and she wrote her first book of poems, ‘For My People’, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She was the first Black woman to win the award. Throughout her career, she was one of the leading Black woman writers of the 20th century.

Arthur Ashe became the first Black male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles. He was also the...
18/02/2024

Arthur Ashe became the first Black male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles. He was also the first African American man to earn the No. 1 ranking in the world and the first to earn induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame. When he learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his activism efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before he passed of AIDS related illness on February 6, 1993.

Albert C. Richardson invented a casket-lowering device that we’ve all seen used today. The device was a simple, cost-eff...
16/02/2024

Albert C. Richardson invented a casket-lowering device that we’ve all seen used today. The device was a simple, cost-effective solution that could be easily attached to a trench or ditch to receive the deceased’s casket. The device was mechanically operated, offering safe and stable support to prevent the casket from falling or dirt from spilling off the trench’s edge. It was constructed using a series of pulleys, cloths, and ropes, providing a secure and balanced descent for the casket.

Sheila Guyse was an actress and singer that was mentioned amongst the greats like Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge. She ...
15/02/2024

Sheila Guyse was an actress and singer that was mentioned amongst the greats like Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge. She starred in independent Black films after getting her start at the Apollo Theatre. She maintained her fame and was featured on the covers of Jet, Ebony, Hue Magazines and more. She later chose to change her path after her husband didn't want her to have a career. This decision left her in obscurity although her talent was remarkable.

In 1928, Joyner patented a machine to create permanent hair waves. Joyner was a powerful advocate for civil rights, educ...
14/02/2024

In 1928, Joyner patented a machine to create permanent hair waves. Joyner was a powerful advocate for civil rights, education and Black beauty culture. In 1924, she helped write Illinois’ first cosmetology laws. In 1935, she became one of the founding members of Mary McLeod Bethune’s National Council of Negro Women, and she worked with Bethune to support Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Teddy Wilson began playing the piano at 7 years old and became renowned during his career. In 1933, Teddy became a membe...
13/02/2024

Teddy Wilson began playing the piano at 7 years old and became renowned during his career. In 1933, Teddy became a member of Benny Carter’s Chocolate Dandies, making him the first African American to be featured with the nationally known group during the Jim Crow era. However, Wilson stayed in all-black hotels when the Benny Goodman Trio toured the country. Teddy Wilson contributed to over 400 albums, including Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald’s works.

Ollie (Olga) was an actress and businesswoman who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and left her mark as o...
12/02/2024

Ollie (Olga) was an actress and businesswoman who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and left her mark as one of the most influential African American dancers and choreographers of that time. She was named one of the eight major dancers and choreographers of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harold was the first Black person to hold a professional position at the National Archives. Previously, all other Black ...
11/02/2024

Harold was the first Black person to hold a professional position at the National Archives. Previously, all other Black employees were laborers, elevator operators, and custodians. Upon his arrival, he was often shunned by hist white counterparts and forced to learn the archival process and job duties on his own due to lack of mentorship and assistance from his colleagues.

Mamie Smith was a music trailblazer. She became the first African-American to make a vocal blues recording, which went o...
10/02/2024

Mamie Smith was a music trailblazer. She became the first African-American to make a vocal blues recording, which went on to sell a million copies within the year and clued music industry execs into the power of the Black community. Prior to this, music execs saw no buying power amongst Black women and girls with music.

Alexander Miles designed an elevator that was able to open and close its own doors. Previously, the opening and closing ...
09/02/2024

Alexander Miles designed an elevator that was able to open and close its own doors. Previously, the opening and closing of the doors had to be completed manually by either the elevator operator or by passengers, contributing greatly to the hazards of operating an elevator.

Charles Hamilton Houston is known as the man who "killed Jim Crow". He was a scholar throughout his life and used his ed...
08/02/2024

Charles Hamilton Houston is known as the man who "killed Jim Crow". He was a scholar throughout his life and used his education to fight for the end of “separate but equal” while pointing out the differences in tools of Black schools and white schools.

He fought for Howard University’s Law School to become accredited and it was there that he met his protege, Thurgood Marshall who went on to win the pivotal 'Board VS The Board of Education' case. Without Charles work and fight for equal access, education as we know it today would not be the same. You can listen to the podcast of Charles Hamilton's story now on Black History Moments.

Jessie Leroy Brown became the first Black aviator in the US Navy and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his servi...
07/02/2024

Jessie Leroy Brown became the first Black aviator in the US Navy and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. When learning that there were no Black pilots in the US Navy, Jessie wrote President Roosevelt in protest. Despite pushback, he was eventually admitted. He became the first Black Naval Officer killed in the Korean War.

After graduating from high school at 16, Maggie Walker became one of the most influential women in business. After seein...
06/02/2024

After graduating from high school at 16, Maggie Walker became one of the most influential women in business. After seeing how hard it was for Black people to get loans from white banks, Maggie opened the St. Luke Penny Saving bank in 1903.

This made her the first Black woman to charter a bank. "The bank continued to thrive as the oldest continually African American-operated bank in the U.S. until 2009."

Granville Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African Am...
05/02/2024

Granville Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. One of his inventions, the "third rail" is currently used by electric-powered transit systems today.

By the time of his death, he had to spend all of the money he earned fighting for legal recognition of his own inventions, as his business partners stole his ideas to pass of their own.

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote more than 20 books and is regarded as the most influential poet of the 20th century. She was the ...
04/02/2024

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote more than 20 books and is regarded as the most influential poet of the 20th century. She was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize and she was the first Black woman appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (Poet Laureate).

Brooks spent her later years dedicated to public service. She conducted poetry readings at prisons and hospitals and attended annual poetry contests for school children, which she often funded.

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was born into slavery before he escaped and went north to Detroit where he opened a boarding ho...
03/02/2024

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was born into slavery before he escaped and went north to Detroit where he opened a boarding home for escaped slaves. He later went on to encourage black people to move to Kansas where they established all Black settlements.

Singleton went throughout the South organizing parties to colonize parts of Kansas. Singleton distributed promotional posters and handbills which promoted “Sunny Kansas” as “one of the finest countries for a poor man in the world”. Nearly 300 Black people followed him to Kansas to establish towns. He became affectionately known as the "Father of the African American Exodus". 🤎🤎

Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first Black woman to receive White House credentials and also, the first Black woman to b...
02/02/2024

Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first Black woman to receive White House credentials and also, the first Black woman to become a member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.

In 1953, Alice was barred from covering a speech given by President Dwight D. Eisenhower because it was being held in a whites-only theater and was forced to sit with the servants to cover Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft’s funeral.

Happy Black History Month! Today we kick off the celebration with a story on Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth.As ...
01/02/2024

Happy Black History Month! Today we kick off the celebration with a story on Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth.

As a child, Opal’s family moved into an all white community as her father tried to find work during the Great Depression. They were threatened and told to move not even 24 hours into their new home. In the night they moved in, a white mob destroyed everything in the home and burned it down. June 19th has always held special significance to Opal since that event.

Listen to her story on the Black History Moments podcast, available now wherever you listen to your podcast.

Arturo Schomburg was a writer, historian, activist, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He collected art literature ...
21/02/2023

Arturo Schomburg was a writer, historian, activist, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He collected art literature and other artifacts belonging to people of African descent and traveled through the United States, Europe, and Latin America, amassing over 10,000 books, manuscripts, sheet music, photographs, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and artwork. In 1926 his collection was purchased by the New York public library.

Charles Hamilton Houston was part of nearly every Supreme Court case concerning civil rights during his era, including t...
20/02/2023

Charles Hamilton Houston was part of nearly every Supreme Court case concerning civil rights during his era, including the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education, and he became known as “the man who killed Jim Crow.” He was an attorney that worked overtime to fight for Civil Rights and against the Jim Crow era.

Moms Mabley was the first woman featured on stage at the prestigious Apollo Theater and was invited back so many times t...
20/02/2023

Moms Mabley was the first woman featured on stage at the prestigious Apollo Theater and was invited back so many times that she appeared more than any other performer. She was a notorious comedian and had featured roles in movies, recorded gold comedy albums and appeared on television shows like The Smothers Brothers and Ed Sullivan.

Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a key participant in drafting and adopt...
20/02/2023

Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a key participant in drafting and adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights alongside Eleanor Roosevelt. Later, he worked on Civil Rights by participating in events like the March on Washington and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Gil Scott-Heron was an activist, poet, and jazz musician that transformed the music landscape. His work is commonly kno...
17/02/2023

Gil Scott-Heron was an activist, poet, and jazz musician that transformed the music landscape. His work is commonly known to have laid the groundwork for rap music today. One notable piece, 'Revolution will not be Televised' became the soundtrack to a movement and can still be referenced today.

Lois Jones was an artist and teacher who was heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance movement. She taught at Howard...
16/02/2023

Lois Jones was an artist and teacher who was heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance movement. She taught at Howard University for years and helped broaden the idea of what Black art can be. She is known as one of the first Black artists to expand their art beyond portraiture.

Rose McCoy was an independent songwriter during a time when Black songwriters were often uncredited and women songwriter...
15/02/2023

Rose McCoy was an independent songwriter during a time when Black songwriters were often uncredited and women songwriters were very few. She wrote hits for the likes of Ike and Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, and many more. During the span of her career, Rose wrote over 850 songs and jingles.

Robert Abbott is known as the father of Black journalism. He founded the "Chicago Defender", a newspaper that highlighte...
14/02/2023

Robert Abbott is known as the father of Black journalism. He founded the "Chicago Defender", a newspaper that highlighted better opportunities for black southerners to migrate to the North. In two years, 110,000 had migrated to Chicago. White businesses refused to carry the newspaper but Black train operators delivered the newspaper during their stops along the south.

Parks was a jazz pianist, composer, wrote 15 books and co-founded Essence magazine. He was the first African American to...
13/02/2023

Parks was a jazz pianist, composer, wrote 15 books and co-founded Essence magazine. He was the first African American to direct a movie for a major studio with his film, "The Learning Tree." Most notably, Gordon was a photographer that traveled the south to capture Black life in a way that sparked emotion and empathy. “I pointed my camera at people mostly who needed someone to say something for them.” - Gordon Parks

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civl rights activist that was fired from her job for attempting to register to vote, beaten, arre...
13/02/2023

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civl rights activist that was fired from her job for attempting to register to vote, beaten, arrested and subjected to constant death threats. Fannie even co-founded a new political party in Mississippi as part of her work to desegregate the state’s Democratic Party.

Dr. Alexa Irene Canady became the first African American woman neurosurgeon in the United States in 1981. Before this mi...
11/02/2023

Dr. Alexa Irene Canady became the first African American woman neurosurgeon in the United States in 1981. Before this milestone, she was accepted as a surgical intern at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1975. She was the first Black woman to be enrolled in the hospital's program.

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