*This dates Registry from 1492, offers a brief article on the origins of Soul food.
Soul Food is a term used for an ethnic cuisine, food...
Category: Science/ Medicine
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Wed, 1492-02-24
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Sat, 1600-05-06
On this date, the Registry looks at the African American contributions to science and chemistry in history.
Understanding the...
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Fri, 1731-11-09
Benjamin Banneker was born on this date in 1731. He was a self-taught, Black astronomer and mathematician.
Banneker and his sisters were...
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Sun, 1762-05-02
On this date we remember the birth of James Durham in 1762. He was the first recognized Black physician in the United States.
Born a...
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Sat, 1805-11-23
*The birth of Mary Grant Seacole in 1805 is celebrated on this date. She was a Jamaican nurse and abolitionist.
Mary Jane Grant was born...
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Mon, 1806-03-17
*This date marks the birth of Norbert Rillieux in 1806. He was an African American inventor and engineer whose patented inventions revolutionized...
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Thu, 1813-03-11
*Lord Beaconsfield Landry was born on this date in 1878. He was an African American physician, civic leader and vocal soloist.
From...
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Sun, 1813-04-18
On this date in 1813, James McCune Smith was born. He was an African American physician and abolitionist.
From New York City, he...
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Tue, 1825-03-08
*Alexander Thomas Augusta was born on this date in 1825. He was a Black physician and educator.
From Norfolk, Virginia, as a young man...
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Tue, 1827-04-10
The birth of Eliza Bryant in 1827 is celebrated on this date. She was a Black abolitionist and businesswoman.
She grew up on a...
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Tue, 1831-02-08
*Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born on this date in 1831. She was a Black physician and author.
Rebecca Davis Lee was born in Delaware, to...
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Fri, 1832-06-08
On this date we celebrate Black Hospitals. Black hospitals have existed in three broad types: segregated, black-controlled, and demographically...
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Mon, 1832-12-24
*The Georgia Infirmary was chartered on Christmas Eve, 1832.
Located in Savannah, GA this was the first hospital established for blacksin...
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Sun, 1833-12-15
On this date in 1883, William Augustus Hinton was born. He was an African American doctor, professor, and the first Black to publish an academic...
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Tue, 1834-10-14
This date in 1834 marks one of the first patents filed by a Black person in America.
Henry Blair of Montgomery County, MD, received his...
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Fri, 1837-04-07
*Anderson Ruffin Abbott was born on this date in1837. He was an African Canadian physician and soldier.
From Toronto, Canada, his parents...
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Tue, 1843-05-02
Elijah J. McCoy was born on this date in 1843. He was an African American inventor and his work may have been the beginning of the phrase the "...
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Wed, 1845-05-07
On this date in 1845, Mary Mahoney was born. She was a nurse, the first Black woman to hold that position in the United States.
Born in...
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Mon, 1846-03-16
*Rebecca J. Cole was born on this date in 1846. She was one of the first Black woman physicians in America and was the first Black woman to...
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Thu, 1846-12-10
On this date in 1846, Norbert Rillieux, a Black inventor and engineer, patented his revolutionary improvement in the cultivation and processing...
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