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Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Shaw Memorial and Standing Lincoln Sculptor
Editor's Note: After visiting Boston a number of times and seeing the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common facing Beacon Street, I researched the memorial...
Col. Charles Young, Buffalo Soldier: Have Confidence
Editor's note: In 2015, I learned about the new Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Park Service (NPS) site established in 2013,...
Edna Griffin and Rosa Parks Held Nation Accountable
Editor's note: In 2017, I visited the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. One exhibit at the museum is a replica of...
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), Human Computer at NASA
Editor's Note: Read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for a truly inspiring book. Almost lost to history is the story of African American...
‘Human computers’ did the math
Editor's Note: After reading Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, a book published in 2016 about the group of African American women who were...
Tuskegee Airmen Defined by Excellence and Extraordinary Perseverance
Editor's Note: In May 2020, I traveled to Port Clinton, Ohio, to interview Lt. Col. Harold Brown, USAF (Ret.), a Tuskegee airman who served...
320th Barrage Balloon Battalion Landed on D-Day
Editor's note: I have read more than 30 books on the people of World War II. Their stories are a timeless inspiration for present...
The Henry Ford Museum Acquires the Rosa Parks Bus
Editor's note: In 2018, I asked to interview a curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan to learn how they acquired the...
Jan. 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. born
Editor's note: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial opened in 2011. The site selected for the memorial near the Lincoln Memorial is a fitting...
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) – Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Editor's Note: In 2005, I went to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit to attend a memorial to Rosa...