Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History

Black History Makers: Fannie Lou Hamer

March 10, 2017 MahoganyBooks

Fannie Lou Townshend (1917-1977) was born into poverty, the youngest of 20 children, to sharecroppers Lou Ella and Jim Townshend in Montgomery County, Mississippi. At age six she joined her family in the cotton fields. […]

Black History Makers: Mary Ellen Pleasant

January 6, 2017 MahoganyBooks

Mary Ellen Pleasant (1852) Mary Ellen Pleasant was born on Aug. 19, 1814 in Virginia and spent her early years in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She worked as a bond servant to the Hussey family, an abolitionist […]