In 1895, Jeremiah Haralson was a former politician, powerful orator, and debater who served in the Alabama House of Representatives and...

On June 21, 1902, Father John Henry Dorsey became the second African American educated and ordained priest in the United States.  From...

Julius Rosenwald designed the Rosenwald Fund to create more equitable opportunities for African Americans in the South. The Fund...

Haygood Seminary was a Mecca for educational and vocational training for newly freed African Americans from the late 1800s to the early...