Blackdom: Learn about New Mexico's first Black community
Blackdom had a post office, general store, and a school building that housed grades 1-8, as well as a church.
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Blackdom had a post office, general store, and a school building that housed grades 1-8, as well as a church.
Eventbrite - Library & Archives NT presents Stories from the Courtroom by Sally Gearin - Tuesday, 22 June 2021 at Northern Territory Archives Centre, Millner, NT. Find event and ticket information.
A collection of materials of the noted wildlife researcher and conservationist Frank Cooper Craighead Jr. is now available for the public to view at Montana State University’s Library.
View Comments The Open Stacks note: The NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections is now open to the public. Appointments can be made 24 hours in advance of the visit by sending an email to archives@nmsu.edu. Hours available are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Safety protocols (face coverings, social distancing, hand washing) are required. Clara Belle Drisdale Williams made history in 1937 when she became the first African American to graduate from the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now NMSU). Clara was born on Oct. 29, 1885, in Plum, Texas, to Isaac and Malind...
Getty Images, U.S. House of Representatives D. S. Saund did not set out to become the first Asian American to serve in the House of Representatives. He did not even intend to remain in the United States for more than a few years, expecting to return home to India after learning the business of fruit canning. But after earning a doctorate in mathematics in 1924 — he studied both agriculture and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley — his family told him that the anti-British comments he had made while in the U.S. were being monitored, according to a biography on the House ...