(Photo By Flickr User Jenni Konrad) Black History Today for February 22nd: 1841- Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born on this day. 1888- African-American painter Horace Pippin, was born in West Chester, PA. Pippin is considered one of the major American painters of his period. 1898- Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three…… MORE
WVEL Black History Weekend Today: February 20th And 21st
(Photo By Flickr User Army Medicine) Black History Weekend Today for February 20th: 1869- Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow, declared martial law in nine countries in Ku Klux Klan crisis. 1895- Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 19th
(Photo By Flickr User Canadian Film Centre) Black History Today for February 19th: 1864- Knights of Pythias established. Confederate troops defeated three Black and six white regiments at Battle of Olustee, about fifty miles from Jacksonville, FL. 1919- Pan-African Congress meeting, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met at Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 18th
(Photo By Flickr User mjtmall) Black History Today for February 18th: 1688- First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic “Germantown Protest” denounced slavery and the slave trade. 1865- Rebels abandoned Charleston, SC. First Union troops to enter the city included Twenty-first…… MORE
2016 Official Spring Home Show
(Photo By Flickr User jamielondonboy) The Home Builders Association of Greater Peoria, present the 2016 Official Spring Home Show at the Peoria Civic Center! More than 250 companies occupying 450 booth spaces make the show the largest of its kind in Central Illinois. It features everything for the home, inside and out, all under…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 17th
(Photo By Flickr User Erik Drost) Black History Today for February 16th: 1870- Congress passed resolution readmitting Mississippi on condition that it would never change its constitution to disenfranchise Blacks. 1891- A. C. Richardson, a black inventor, invented the churn on this day. 1902- Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, PA on this day. 1918- Birthday…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 16th
(Photo By Flickr User randy stewart) Black History Today for February 16th: 1857- Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust. 1923- Bessie Smith makes her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues,” which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia Records on this day. 1951- New York City Council passed bill prohibiting racial discrimination in city-assisted…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 15th
(Photo By Flickr User Patrick Q) We’re now officially in the middle of the month of February and still rolling along with more African-American History Artifacts! Let’s take a trek back together and find out what happened with Black History, today! Black History Today for February 15th: 1804- The New Jersey Legislature…… MORE
WVEL Black History Weekend Today: February 13th And 14th
(Photo By Flickr User Scott Beale) WVEL Black History Weekend Today for February 13th & February 14: February 13th: 1635- America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston, MA. Black students were excluded from attending. 1818- Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S., died on this day. 1892- The…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 12th
(Photo By Flickr User Bob n Renee) Black History Today for February 12th: 1793- First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress. 1865- Henry Highland Garnet was the first Black to speak in the Capitol on this day; Garnet delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. 1900- James Weldon Johnson…… MORE
