African Descent Archives - Page 6 of 70

Albertina Walker

Singer-songwriter known as the “Queen of Gospel Music”

Amma D McKen

McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.

Burnardine Fraser Flanagan

Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.

Ida R Cummings

Ida R. Cummings and her family were on the front lines from the suffrage movement to supporting amendments to better the rights of Black Americans.

Lucretia Marshbanks

Lucretia Marshbanks was one of the first black women to venture to the Black Hills of South Dakota. She was a cook, boarding house manager, hotel owner, and ranch owner.

Millie Dunn

Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

Rosina Corrothers Tucker

A civil rights and labor activist, Rosina Corrothers Tucker played a pivotal role in the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and its International Ladies’ Auxiliary Order.

Kitty Foster

Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.

Jane Webb was a free, mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia who sued her husband’s enslaver when he refused to live up to the terms of a contract that would have freed her husband and the bound Webb children.

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.