2023 Youth Ministry Black History Presentations
Dominick Gibson
August Wilson
(0/27/1945 – 10/02/2005)
Hill District, PA
Was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the “theater’s poet of Black America”. He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle.
Tajhia Wright
Jane Matilda Bolin
(04/11/1908 – 01/08/2007)
Poughkeepsie, NY
Was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department.
Raniyah Williams
Ethel Waters
(10/31/1896 – 09/01/1977)
Chester, PA
Was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues.
Rahshad Williams
Jesse LeRoy Brown
(10/13/1926 – 12/04/1950)
Hattiesburg, MS
Was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the United States Navy’s basic flight training program, the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Aubrey Gillis
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.
(07/01/1877 – 11/26/1970)
Washington, DC
Was a United States Army general. In 1940, he became the first African-American to rise to the rank of brigadier general.
Kamryn Booker
Daisy Bates
(11/11/1914 – 11/04/1999)
Huttig, Arkansas
Was an publisher, journalist, lecturer and American civil rights activists best known for her work on behalf of the Little Rock Nine.
Aidan Richardson
William Warrick Cardozo
(04/06/1905 – 08/11/1962)
Washington, DC
Was an accomplished private physician and pediatrician who also served as an instructor at the Howard University College of Medicine and as a school medical inspector for the DC Board of Health.