8 The HBCU Advocate


Volume 3 Number 4


www.thehbcuadvocate.com African American History in Photographs Contributors: Angela Jones, Brenda Buchanon, White House Archives and the Library of Congress


President


Barack Obama presents former NASA


mathematician Katherine Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at a ceremony in the White House. Johnson’s career at NASA was a featured in the movie, ‘Hidden Figures’. Johnson died at the age of 101 on Monday, February 24, 2020. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) White House Archives.


Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) African-American politician, lawyer, educator and former U.S. Congresswoman from Texas was known for her commanding and articulate speech. Among her firsts— first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention on July 12, 1976.


Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940) Born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, he was a leader of African nationalism and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and League.


African Communities


Ronald Reagan and Coretta Scott King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day signing ceremony. The U.S. Federal Holiday was first celebrated on January 20, 1986. Also known as MLK Day, it is celebrated in connection with King’s birthday, January 15th. King, the civil rights activist, was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.


Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), an entrepreneur, philanthropist,


activist, was founder of


Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, marketing cosmetics and hair care products for black women. Her home, Villa Lewaro, located in Irvington, New York was considered the place to be for the African American community.


Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet, briefly, on March 26, 1964 for the first time at a press conference. In this historic meeting, both leaders visit Capitol Hill to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


From left, Vice President-elect Hubert H. Humphrey, Coretta Scott King and Civil Rights Leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a rally at Harlem's 369th Regiment Armory on December 17, 1964 (Wikimedia Commons).


Mary McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod, July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) founded the National Council for Negro Woman in 1935, was a world-renowned educator, stateswoman, civil rights activist and adviser to U.S. presidents. Born to former slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina, she rose to enormous heights. Dr. Bethune founded what would become Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.


Sojourner Truth, was born, Isabella Baumfree, (c. 1797, died November 26, 1883) into slavery but escaped in 1826. She was an African-American abolitionist, itinerant preacher and women's rights activist. She is well-known for her famous speech, ‘Ain’t I a Woman?


Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950 in Lake City, S.C. and died January 28, 1986. He was an American NASA astronaut and physicist and died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger


at Cape Canaveral,


Florida. He graduated from N.C.A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C., MIT in Massachusetts and was a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.


First Lady Michelle Obama is the first African American First Lady (2009 to 2017), an American lawyer, writer and married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. She serves as a role model, an advocate for children, education and promoting a healthy lifestyle. (Official White House photo).


Marcus Garvey in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) parade in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. Garvey was a Jamaican activist and African nationalist, journalist and publisher of the Watchman.


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