Original story by Erin Blackmore The news was terrifying to colonists in Massachusetts: Smallpox had made it to Boston and was spreading rapidly. The first victims, passengers on a ship from the Caribbean, were shut up in a house identified only by a red flag that read “God have mercy on this house.” Meanwhile, hundreds of residents …
Virginie Therese Herckenrath De Fremery a black woman (July 11, 1824 – February 1, 1890) was the wife of Jacobus (James) de Fremery (February 17, 1826 – May 28, 1899), and the daughter of Leon Herckenrath (June 6, 1800 – September 12, 1861) a wealthy Dutch merchant and Consul of Netherlands in charge of the states of …
Original Story located in the https://Oaklandwiki.org/oakland/william_shorey William Thomas Shorey (July 13, 1859–April 15, 1919) was captain of a whaling ship from the 1880s through the 1900s, the west coast’s only black captain at that time. He was known to his whaling crews as the ‘Black Ahab’. Born in Barbados in 1859, Shorey went to sea as …
Original Article by: Dianna Everett (© Oklahoma Historical Society) The originator of rodeo steer wrestling, or bulldogging, African American cowboy William “Bill” Pickett is believed to have been born December 5, 1870, in Travis County, Texas, about thirty miles north of Austin. He was one of thirteen children of Thomas Jefferson Pickett and Mary Virginia Elizabeth …
Original Author & Publisher: Biography.com Carter G. Woodson was an African American writer and historian known as the ‘Father of Black History.’ He penned the influential book ‘The Mis-Education of the Negro.’ Who Was Carter G. Woodson? Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, after W.E.B. Du Bois. Known …
