Day: February 17, 2017
THE RACIAL CONFLICT OF 1912
GODFREY GREGG FORSYTH COUNTY, GEORGIA: THE RACIAL CONFLICT OF 1912 In 1912, two different black-on-white rapes allegedly occurred in Forsyth County, Georgia. They threw the area into racially segregated chaos and changed the county for years. Ellen Grice was a…
ALBERTA KING ASSASSINATED
LOOKING BLACK ON TODAY IN 1974, DR. KING’S MOTHER, ALBERTA KING WAS ASSASSINATED DURING A SUNDAY  CHURCH SERVICE Alberta King was shot and killed on June 30, 1974 by 23 year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault as she sat at the organ…
ELIZA ANN MISSIONARY
Eliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist and religious leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), and was a strong advocate for women’s…
THE THIRD SLAVE REBELLION –
BY: NATASHA GREGG THE THIRD SLAVE REBELLION – Unarguably, the slave trade had a remarkable effect on the demographics of Barbados, in that as early as 1685, the white population was completely outnumbered by the slave population by approximately 4…