Successful 19th century early 20th century African American business men and women
There are a number of excellent African American Genealogy websites that are essential to finding your ancestors. We want to be a little different. This site seeks to concentrate on family success stories in the 19th and 20th century. We would like to have your stories to share in this section of our website. In addition to your stories we will concentrate on the significan successes of African Americans in the18th, 19th and early 20th century Some of the databases will include:
- Biographhical Sketches of African American Legislatures during reconstruction. If you are related to any of them please tell us your story.
- Newspaper articles from African American owned Newspapers from 1867 to 1950 new every week
- Databases of former slaves (currently being developed and updated monthly)
- Databases of African American Actors and actresses 1807-1930
- Puzzling stories
- Successful black owned businesses
- and more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_businesses
African-American businesses 19th century to 1950
RESOURCES ON BLACK LEGISLATORS DURING RECONSTRUCTION
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-leaders-during-reconstruction
Sharecropping in the south
https://vanished.com/vanished-home/how-the-other-half-lived/sharecroppers/
African American Actors and Actresses 1807-1950
1800s[edit]
- Ira Aldridge – 1807
1860s[edit]
- Ernest Hogan – 1865
- Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (also known as The Black Patti) – 1868
- Bob Cole – 1868
1870s[edit]
- George Walker – 1873
- Bert Williams – 1874
- Bill Robinson – 1878
- Jesse Graves – 1879
1880s[edit]
- Noble Johnson – 1881
- Clinton Rosemond – 1881
- Sam McDaniel – 1886
- Dooley Wilson – 1886
- Spencer Bell – 1887
- Tim Moore – 1887
- Clarence Muse – 1889
1890s[edit]
- Ernest Whitman – 1893
- Spencer Williams – 1893
- Moms Mabley – 1894
- Rex Ingram – 1895
- Hattie McDaniel – 1895
- Bill Walker – 1896
- Ethel Waters – 1896
- Johnny Lee – 1898
- Paul Robeson – 1898
- Lillian Randolph – 1898
- Blue Washington – 1898
- Oscar Polk – 1899
1900s[edit]
- Ruby Dandridge – 1900
- Adelaide Hall – 1901
- Louise Beavers – 1902
- Stepin Fetchit – 1902
- Mantan Moreland – 1902
- Everett Brown – 1902
- Fredi Washington – 1903
- James Baskett – 1904
- Pigmeat Markham – 1904
- Eddie Anderson – 1905
- Frederick O’Neal – 1905
- Ernestine Wade – 1906
- Fred Toones – 1906
- Victoria Spivey – 1906
- Alvin Childress – 1907
- Cab Calloway – 1907
- Louis Jordan – 1908
- Helen Martin – 1909
1910s[edit]
- Nick Stewart (also known as Nicodemus or Nick O’Demus) – 1910
- Scatman Crothers – 1910
- Napoleon Whiting – 1910
- Muriel Rahn – 1911
- Rosetta LeNoire – 1911
- Nina Mae McKinney – 1912
- Roy Glenn – 1914
- Woody Strode – 1914
- Juanita Moore – 1914
- Willie Best (also known as Sleep ‘n’ Eat) – 1916
- Ossie Davis – 1917
- Lena Horne – 1917
- Davis Roberts – 1917
- Isabel Sanford – 1917
- James Edwards – 1918
- Nipsey Russell – 1918
- Nat ‘King’ Cole – 1919
1920s[edit]
- Allen “Farina” Hoskins – 1920
- LaWanda Page – 1920
- Esther Rolle – 1920
- Dorothy Dandridge – 1922
- Redd Foxx – 1922
- Roscoe Lee Browne – 1922
- Muriel Smith – 1923
- Ruby Dee – 1924
- Cicely Tyson – 1924
- Matthew “Stymie” Beard – 1925
- Sammy Davis Jr. – 1925
- Harry Belafonte – 1927
- Rupert Crosse – 1927
- Robert Guillaume – 1927
- Brock Peters – 1927
- Sidney Poitier – 1927
- Eartha Kitt – 1927
- Maya Angelou – 1928
- Moses Gunn – 1929
- Roxie Roker – 1929
1930s[edit]
- Abbey Lincoln – 1930
- James Earl Jones – 1931
- Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas – 1931
- Ivan Dixon – 1931
- Marla Gibbs – 1931
- Carl Gordon – 1932
- Nichelle Nichols – 1932
- Melvin Van Peebles – 1932
- Greg Morris – 1933
- Flip Wilson – 1933
- Wilbert “Bill” Cobbs – 1934
- Diahann Carroll – 1935
- Louis Gossett Jr. – 1936
- Bill Cosby – 1937
- Morgan Freeman – 1937
- Billy Dee Williams – 1937
- Sherman Hemsley – 1938
- Madge Sinclair – 1938
- Fred Williamson – 1938
- John Amos – 1939
- Cleavon Little – 1939
- Clarence Williams III – 1939
- Yaphet Kotto – 1939
- Paul Winfield – 1939
1940s[edit]
- Richard Pryor – 1940
- John Witherspoon – 1942
- Isaac Hayes – 1942
- Richard Roundtree – 1942
- Leslie Uggams – 1943
- Georg Stanford Brown – 1943
- Margaret Avery – 1944
- Patti LaBelle – 1944
- Diana Ross – 1944
- Ja’net Dubois – 1945
- Charlie Robinson – 1945
- James Avery – 1945
- Ernie Hudson – 1945
- Danny Glover – 1946
- Gregory Hines – 1946
- Ben Vereen – 1946
- Demond Wilson – 1946
- Melba Moore – 1946
- Glynn Turman – 1947
- Joe Morton – 1947
- Jimmie Walker – 1947
- Grace Jones – 1948
- Phylicia Rashad – 1948
- Avery Brooks – 1948
- Samuel L. Jackson – 1948
- Lynne Thigpen – 1948
- Nell Carter – 1948
- Pam Grier – 1949
- Frankie Faison – 1949
- Kene Holliday – 1949
- Loretta Devine – 1949