Elijah Abel was one of the earliest African-American members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the first African-American elder and seventy in the Latter Day Saint movement. Abel was also the first and one of the few black members in the early history of the church to receive the priesthood. … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Blacks and the Mormon Church
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Tuesday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Alfred L. Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor who was best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American Civil War. He attended local schools and worked for his father in the carpentry trade as a young man. During that period, he also became … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Tuesday Open Thread: Black Women and Rock N Roll
Peggy Jones or Peggy Malone (married name) (July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo in recognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician. A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Women and Rock N Roll
Tuesday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an African American mathematician who worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor agency to NASA. She was born Dorothy Johnson in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Annie and Leonard Johnson. Her family moved to Virginia and she graduated from Wilberforce University … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
Tuesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Thanks for the birthday sentiments fellow POU'ers. Now onward to the open thread... Mattie Jane Jackson (January 1847 – February 5, 1910) was an African American author. She is known for her 1866 autobiography, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage, Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery, Incidents During the War, Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, which … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives