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Victor Sejour – France’s Most Popular Playwright in the 1850s

March 17, 2025

By Dannie Gore Victor Sejour, New Orleans Mulatto, rose to be France’s most popular playwright in the 1850s. Born in 1817, he won distinction at the age of 17 with his first poem. In 1836 his parents sent him to Paris to escape America’s color prejudice. Here he became private secretary to Louis Napoleon, later […]

W.H. Council founded Alabama A&M University

March 2, 2025

By Dannie Gore, Sr. W.H. Council was born in Fayetteville, NC, in 1848. When he’s was nine years old, he was carried by slave traders to Alabama, where he worked in the cotton fields until set free as a result of the Civil War. He attended one of the first schools opened by Northern teachers […]

Monroe Nathan Work, A Quiet Crusader and Diligent Scholar

October 25, 2024

By Dannie Gore Like his contemporaries W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945) devoted his life to improving the status of black Americans. Unlike DuBois and Washington, however, Work was a quiet crusader, a painstaking and diligent scholar who believed that he could do more to help the black cause by the […]