Felicia Mack
Ph.D. in Literacy from Washington State University
Teaches at Eastern Kentucky State University
Historian Felicia Mack who is interested in a number of important figures in African American history, holds a Ph.D. in Literacy from Washington State University. She currently teaches at Eastern Kentucky State University in Richmond, Kentucky.
Articles by
Selma Hortense Burke (1900 -1995)
Selma Hortense Burke was a nurse, a teacher, and an influential American artist. Born in Mooresville, North Carolina, she was...
Charles Manuel “Sweet Daddy” Grace (1881-1960)
Marcelino Manoel da Graca, anglicized Charles Grace, and best known as Sweet Daddy Grace, was founder of the United House...
Father Divine (c.1876-1965)
Father Divine, founder of the International Peace Missions Movement, was a religious leader, businessman, and civil rights activist. He was...
Gladys Kidd Jennings (1925- )
Gladys E. Kidd, educator, nutritionist, mentor, philanthropist, and granddaughter of slaves was born on October 11, 1925 in Columbus, Ohio...
Solomon Northup (1808-?)
Solomon Northup was a free Black man who was illegally held in bondage for twelve years before he regained his...
Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City, New York (1808- )
Abyssinian Baptist church, currently located in Harlem, New York, was founded in 1808 when a group of black parishioners left...
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, New York City (1796- )
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME) Church, founded in 1796, is currently located in Harlem, New York. It is the...
Historic Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church (1790- )
Historic Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church, located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky has the oldest African American active congregation west of...
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Tennessee (1835- )
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee...
Spruce Street Baptist Church (1835- )
Spruce Street Baptist Church is one of the oldest black churches in Nashville, Tennessee. It is also one of three...
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1835- )
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee is one of three churches that evolved out of Nashville’s historic First...
Horace G. Dawson (1926- )
Horace G. Dawson, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. After his confirmation by...
