Know Your History Archives - Page 11 of 17 - EMP PRESS

75 Years Ago, Althea Gibson Shattered Tennis’s Racial Barriers — Don’t Let Her Story Be Forgotten

She Helped Led a Slave Revolt While 9 Months Pregnant — The Story of La Mulâtresse Solitude

Still Glowing at 76: The First Black Woman to Represent South Africa in Miss World

West African Masks: Preserving the Spirit of Tradition

Ghana’s Asante King Welcomes Home Looted Royal Artifacts After More Than A Century Away

In 1940, Hattie McDaniel Made History as the First Black Oscar Winner — Yet Wasn’t Allowed to Sit with Her Co-Stars Because of the Hotel’s ‘No Blacks’ Policy

She Died at 24 — But Alice Augusta Ball’s Breakthrough Saved Millions from Leprosy for Decades

Meet the Fulani — The World’s Largest Nomadic People, United by Culture Across 10 Nations

Firsthand Voices of the Enslaved — Unfiltered Truths About Slavery in America

Meet the Woman Who Became Colorado’s First Black Female Barber at 42 — Proving It’s Never Too Late

In 1924, William DeHart Hubbard Made History — The First Black Olympic Gold Medalist in an Individual event

Did you know the “Dap” was born out of brotherhood and resistance?