Childhood memories of Annie L. Burton
We are not sure if the image on this book is actually Annie L. Burton or one of the other writers included in the volume.
Lucy Terry, one of America’s earliest Black poets and legal minds
When it comes to seminal moments in American literature, particularly in an African American context, Phillis Wheatley’s name is prominently evoked.
Charlotte Monroe Hershaw, a teacher and member of the Niagara Movement
There are several interesting ways to trace the background and history of Charlotte Monroe Hershaw.
Kittie Knox of cycling fame and fashion
In pursuit of research on Harlem in the 1890s, I was surprised to discover how popular bicycling was then, which really should not have been such a stunning revelation.
Angelina Weld Grimke, gifted, versatile writer of mixed ancestry and sexuality
A play by Michael Dinwiddie and a book by Kerri K. Greenidge evoke an illustrious American family of mixed ancestry, and none more emblematic than Angelina Weld Grimke.
Bertha Gober, a civil rights activist with a golden voice and powerful pen
The recent death of civil rights legend Charles Sherrod, who we profiled in last week’s column, summons a gallery of young people in the South who risked death in their defiance of Jim Crow laws.
Maude Russell, chorus line dancer and creator of the Charleston
Among the pleasures reading the late Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase’s book “Josephine: The Hungry Heart,” their biography of the great dancer and chanteuse Josephine Baker, is the gallery of notables attracted to the performer’s dynamic vortex.
We run this: Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Amsterdam News decided to take a look at Black women business owners impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and their road to recovery.
Evelyn Preer, first African American ‘Lady of the Screen’
In the lore of early Black film history, no director’s footprint matches those of Oscar Micheaux, and if he had a female counterpart on the stage and screen it was Evelyn Preer.
Vivian Malone, first Black graduate of the University of Alabama
Many Americans remember Vivian Malone in tandem with James Hood as they were denied entry to the University of Alabama in 1963. Gov. George Wallace was there to block them from integrating the all-white institution.
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