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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Funeral homes have since the end of slavery, been an important business enterprise in the Black community – read a bit about that history.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Nate Smith
African American chemists Alice Ball, Norbert Rillieux, Marie Maynard Daly, and Percy Julius made significant contributions to chemistry and helped shape the world we know today.
Posted in: African American History, Chemistry, Inventions, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about African Americans who went west to be a part of the California Gold Rush.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I wanted to show readers some techniques I’ve learned for finding prints and photographs in the Library’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, as well as how to locate advertisements in the Chronicling America database.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Looking at African American Business and Entrepreneurship highlighting African American history in Kansas City, Missouri.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Cowboys Bose Ikard, Bill Pickett, and Ned Huddleston are part of the history of The West.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
African Americans history is full of business pioneers and the beauty product industry is no exception. From the more well-know Madam C. J. Walker to modern day mogul Rihanna.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post from 2020 Junior Fellow Sophia Southard looks at just a few of the African American owned newspapers.
Posted in: African American History, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about how tuberculosis affected the African American population during the 1940s.
Posted in: African American History, Women's History