In Touch With A Six Triple Eight Veteran
A soldier was laid to rest on June 21, 2024. The soldier received the Congressional Gold Medal in the summer 2022 for service during World War II. The soldier lived to be 104 years old, and she was an African American woman who had served in a segregated U.S. Army not only divided by race, but also by sex.
In Touch With Juneteenth and Our Ancestors
Juneteenth was once celebrated as “Jubilee Day.” It was in the spring of 1865 when Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced to all the residents that enslaved people living in the state of Texas and other Confederate states had been freed by an Executive…
In Touch With Mary, Martha, and Adah
Three African American nurses of the 20th century are remembered in the nursing field as (1) the first African American to graduate from an American School of nursing; (2) one of the few African Americans members of her high school class to graduate and one of the first people to campaign for racial equality in nursing; and (3) the only black woman in her nursing class of thirty to graduate.
