After World War II, African-Americans were searching for the hope of better lives without the stress of racial discrimination. Hundreds of thousands of black families migrated all around the West Coast after leaving the south. Some of those families moved to Los Angeles, California, finding that cities in the West were not immune from […]
Clara C. Frye worked for 20 years as a nurse in Tampa, Florida. She later established the Clara Frye Hospital so that African American patients could be treated. Frye was born in 1872, and moved to the Tampa, Florida area around 1901. Not much is known about her early life. In 1908, Frye was approached […]
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was one of the most prestigious medical institutions. The hospital opened in 1937, six years after the assassination of its benefactor and advocate Homer G. Phillips, a St. Louis, Missouri-based African-American lawyer. It was designed by architect Albert Osburg. The hospital had been designed and built to serve the needs of […]
Photo credits: GENE J. PUSKAR/AP When Mo’ne Davis (pictured) was just 13 years old, she was playing for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Taney Dragons – a Little League baseball team. On August 19, 2014. Davis became the first teen athlete to adorn Sports Illustrated magazine’s front page. When the pint-sized pitcher made youth baseball history, she was just […]
Following his loss to McCallum, Michael Watson embarked on a three-match winning streak—including the sole defense of his British Commonwealth Middleweight title. A World title contender, he would be matched against his toughest and final challenge in “Simply the Best” Chris Eubank, the WBO World Middleweight champion. Vs. Eubank: WBO World Middleweight Title Eubank […]
At Black Then, we frequently see interesting photos that give us a glimpse into the past. They tend to show us a piece of black history that is often not covered in textbooks, in history classes, or shown in the media. In a photo that we found on Black History Album , we see this […]
Richard Ewell was the first African American to win a national title in both pair skating and single skating. He won National Junior Men in 1970, and in 1972, won the National Junior Pair skating title with Michelle McCladdie, another African American. Ewell was born in Los Angeles, where he also grew up. He began […]
June 9, 1963: Fannie Lou Hamer was on her way back from Charleston, South Carolina with other activists from a literacy workshop, stopping in Winona, Mississippi, the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed. Once in jail, Hamer and her colleagues were beaten savagely by the police, almost to the point of death. […]
Photo credits: The Guardian Simone Biles vied at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women’s Qualification. She assisted team USA’s first-place certification in the final. The ending rank stat log for Team USA was 185.238. This mark surpassed the second-place certified Team China. Biles became eligible as an advanced gymnast. She also competed in four […]
BY WALTER OPINDE On this day June 9, 1934, a powerful and dynamic African-American soul performer, during the 1950s and the 1960s, Jack Leroy (Jackie) Wilson Jr., was born, in Detroit, Michigan. Jackie successfully crossed over from rhythm and blues to pop music. Jackie Wilson was an African-American soul singer, songwriter, and performer. A tenor with a four-octave vocal range, made […]
Formed 1826 in Boston, the Massachusetts General Colored Association’s sole purpose was to fight against slavery and racism. It was established by members of the city’s Black Freemasons. Of those members, Thomas Dalton, William G. Nell, and James G. Barbadoes are elected to president, vice president and secretary respectively. Other founding members included Walker Lewis of Lowell. […]
Feminism has quite a long history in the United States, coming in and out of the public eye in distinctive waves. Three main waves of feminism have been documented officially throughout history. First wave: 1840-1920s Growing out of the abolitionist movement, the first wave of feminism began. One of the largest goals of […]
