This date is Hairstylist Appreciation Day and The Registry looks briefly at African American hair.
The history of “Black Hair and Beauty...
Category: Business
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Sat, 1441-04-30
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Mon, 1746-04-11
Wentworth Cheswell was born on this date in 1746. He was a Black businessman and politician.
From Newmarket, NH Cheswell was the only...
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Mon, 1766-01-27
*Pierre Toussaint was born on this date in 1766. He was Haitian immigrant to America, businessman and philanthropist.
Toussaint was born...
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Wed, 1773-04-28
*The birth of Sally Hemings in 1773 is celebrated on this date. She was a Black domestic chambermaid. She was also the mistress to and mother...
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Sat, 1785-03-26
*Elleanor Eldridge was born on this date in 1785. She was a Black entrepreneur.
Eldridge was from Warwick, RI, the youngest of seven...
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Sun, 1785-05-29
On this date, we celebrate African American architecture. Blacks have been involved in building and architecture since the colonial era of...
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Fri, 1794-03-14
*On this date in 1794, Eli Whitney patented the Cotton Gin which he invented; (or did he?). African slaves, because they were not citizens, could...
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Wed, 1800-10-22
This date marks the birth of Lewis Temple, a black inventor, in 1800.
He was the creator of a whaling harpoon, known as "Temple's Toggle...
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Wed, 1805-12-11
*The birth of William Goodridge is celebrated on this date in 1805. He was a black businessman and abolitionist.
He was born in...
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Mon, 1810-03-26
*On this date we celebrate the birth of William Alexander Leidesdorff, in 1810. He was an African-American businessman and explorer.
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Sat, 1810-06-02
The “shotgun house,” a residential house design, is celebrated on this date in 1810. It is a Black cultural architectural form that originated in...
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Sat, 1818-08-15
*On this date in 1818, Bridget "Biddy" Mason was born. She was a once illiterate African-American slave woman who worked as a nurse/midwife and...
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Thu, 1820-09-21
*Augustus Washington’s birth in 1820 is celebrated on this date. He was an African-American abolitionist and photographer specializing as a...
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Mon, 1820-12-11
On this date we celebrate the birth of Martin F. Becker in 1820. He was a Black sailor, printer, administrator, and barber.
Becker was...
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Wed, 1823-06-11
The birth of Louis Charles Roudanez in 1823 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black Creole of color physician, civic leader, and news...
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Thu, 1825-07-28
*The birth of James P. Ball in 1825 is celebrated on this date. He was an African-American Abolitionist, free Black man, photographer and...
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Fri, 1827-03-16
*On this date in 1827, the Freedom’s Journal newspaper was founded. It was the first Black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States....
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Sun, 1830-07-04
The birth of Louis A. Southworth in 1830 is marked on this date. He was an African-American blacksmith, fiddler, and farmer.
Born a...
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Tue, 1832-05-15
Mary Fields was born a slave on this date in 1832. She was a Black entrepreneur and stagecoach driver.
Fields was born a slave in...
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Wed, 1833-06-19
Addison Scurlock was born on this date in 1883. He was an African American photographer.
Born in Fayetteville, N.C., he graduated from...