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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 2013
Page
6
Madame C. J. Walker born Sarah Breedlove 1867 in poverty rose from washerwoman to cosmetics magnate. By 1905 she perfected a hair straightening formula for Black women, building a fortune and philanthropy including scholarships and aid. Her Irvington mansion symbolized wealth and status.
Mamie Smith first recorded blues vocal with Crazy Blues in 1920 making history as the earliest African American woman recording star. The text also honors James Miley Willie Smith era Jazz Hounds and Robert Peary aide Henson. It highlights A Philip Randolph leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters from 1925 and his role in desegregation and the 1963 March on Washington.
John Russwurm born into slavery in Jamaica rose to prominence as a free man with support from his white father. He graduated Bowdoin College in 1826, becoming the third African American college graduate, and co founded Freedom's Journal with Samuel Cornish in 1827, the first black newspaper in the United States. Its creed demanded complete freedom and equality for enslaved Africans.
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was born to a free Black mother and white planter father. He recruited Black Union troops in 1862, quit over unequal pay, helped found the Louisiana Republican Party, and served as acting governor from December 1872 to January 1873, the first Black governor in U.S. history.
Leonard Pitts Jr selects ten lesser known individuals who shaped American history across ten fields, arguing they deserve remembrance alongside giants like King Malcolm X Douglass and Du Bois. The piece highlights overlooked contributions by both women and men and invites lasting recognition.
Oscar Micheaux lived 1884 to 1951 and shaped early Black cinema by writing directing and producing about 30 films for Black audiences in the 1920s and 1930s. He funded projects by drawing directly from his audiences and toured towns to screen films and raise funds for future work.
Henry Johnson born about 1897 and Needham Roberts faced 32 German troops near the Aisne River in France on May 14 1918. Outgunned and wounded Johnson charged using a bolo knife and pistol butt while Roberts was captured then freed. Both earned France’s Croix de Guerre for their actions in the firefight.
Powell, a Virginia native and grandson of slaves, rose to prominence as pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. Under his leadership the church expanded beyond worship to aid the aged, feed the hungry, and push racial and economic justice, growing to about 14,000 members by the mid-1930s, the largest Protestant congregation nationally.
John Arthur Johnson rose to fame as boxing history's first black heavyweight champion with a 1908 win over Tommy Burns in 15 intense rounds. The bout amid racial tension ended when police halted action and Johnson’s success sparked white supremacist calls for Jim Jeffries to reclaim the title.
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