Black History

Bruce Radolph, known as Daddy Bruce, said “Nothing beats love. If you give just one thing, you get three things back; that’s why I do it.” Daddy Bruce opened Daddy Bruce’s Bar-B-Q in 1963, at the age…

Bessie Coleman was an American Civil Aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent to hold a pilot license. She became a successful air show pilot in the United States and hoped to…

Violette Neatley Anderson achieved a number of notable firsts for both African-Americans and women in the legal world. Chief among her achievements, she became the first African-American woman to…

One in four cowboys was black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies. In fact, it is believed that the real “Lone Ranger” was inspired by an African American man named Bass Reeves.…

Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer and was a key member of the first successful expedition to the North Pole in the early nineteen hundreds and made seven separate voyages to…

Josephine Baker, was one of showbiz’s most iconic African American performers. After marrying a Frenchman, Jean Lion, she moved to Paris. In 1940, when the Nazis began their occupation of Paris, Baker…