#blackhistory

Jan Ernst Matzeliger             1852 – 1889       Who Was He?           Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in 1852 on a coffee plantation in Dutch Guiana. His father owned the land and his mother was enslaved. At the...

Frederick McKinley Jones     Frederick McKinley Jones – 1893 – 1961       A Rough Road     Right out of the shoot there is some disagreement about where Frederick was born. Most sources say it was Cincinnati, Ohio, but I found another that suggested it might have...