TIL Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence criticized King George III for enslaving Africans, and for over-ruling Virginia’s attempt to ban Slavery. In it, Jefferson called slavery a “cruel war against human nature.” The draft was struck down by the continental congress. jeffersonpapers.princeton…
Fiancé finally got his results back! His family from Virginia were some of the first African Americans to come to present day Washington state to work on the railroads in the 1800s
TIL of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who in 1864 became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States. After the American Civil War ended in 1864 she moved from Boston to Virginia to provide medical care to freed slaves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reb…
TIL The Liberian constitution and flag were modeled after those of the U.S. On January 3, 1848, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a wealthy, free-born African American from Virginia who settled in Liberia, was elected Liberia's first president after the people proclaimed independence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib…
Virginia Democrats make historic choices for House speaker, majority leader: Virginia Democrats choose first woman in state's history as House speaker and first African American woman as majority leader washingtonpost.com/local/…
Virginia commemorates the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in North America msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/vir…
The First Africans in Virginia and the Establishment of Slavery in Virginia - History Arch historyarch.com/2019/09/2…
The First Africans in Virginia and the Establishment of Slavery in Virginia - History Arch historyarch.com/2019/09/2…
The First Africans in Virginia and the Establishment of Slavery in Virginia - History Arch historyarch.com/2019/09/2…
The First Africans in Virginia and the Establishment of Slavery in Virginia - History Arch historyarch.com/2019/09/2…
400 years ago, enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia nationalgeographic.com/ar…
The First Africans in Virginia and the Establishment of Slavery in Virginia - History Arch historyarch.com/2019/09/2…
(Backstory) 291: 1619: The Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia audioboom.com/posts/73502…
@NBCNews: The first African-American woman to serve as a police chief in Virginia wrote in a 4-page letter that she was forced to resign in a move she believes was racially motivated. https://t.co/l3ujPtHp2d mobile.twitter.com/NBCNew…
TIL first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sla…
Disney announces its first African princess: a white girl from Virginia in the upcoming "Princess of North Sudan" rawstory.com/2015/05/the-…
Alberta Virginia Scott, the first African American graduate of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1898 [703x585]
Notable New Englanders: Anna Louise James 1886-1977. Born in Hartford, Connecticut to an escaped slave from Virginia, James was the first female pharmacist of African descent in the state. She ran the James Pharmacy in Old Saybrook from 1917 to 1967. connecticuthistory.org/an…
Alberta Virginia Scott, the first African American graduate of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1898
Virginia first lady handed out cotton to African-American children on slave cottage tour, mother says cnn.com/2019/02/27/politi…
[July 16, 1916] African pygmy commits suicide in Virginia after becoming first to leave his African tribe -- New York Times query.nytimes.com/mem/arc…
TIL when former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder became governor he was the second African-American governor in the history of the country, the first was during Reconstruction. nytimes.com/learning/gene…
Virginia first lady under fire for handing cotton to African American students on mansion tour washingtonpost.com/local/…
President Barack Obama watches First Lady Michelle Obama dance with 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin in the Blue Room of the White House prior to a reception celebrating African American History Month, Feb. 18, 2016.
