BHM DAY 8: DEARFIELD, COLORADO In 1910 Oliver Toussaint Jackson founded Deerfield, Colorado. Jackson was an entrepreneur from Boulder, Colorado. The vision Oliver had for Dearfield was for it to be a self-sufficient, all-black agricultural colony. Jackson was able to gain support from the Color

BHM DAY 7: Mary Beatrice Kenner Mary Beatrice Kenner was born in Charlotte, North Carolina; May 1912 & passed at the age of 93 in January 2006. She was born into a great family of inventors including her father Sidney Nathaniel Davidson. Her grandfather Robert Phromeberger designed a a tri

BHM DAY 6: Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961) was an African American inventor and entrepreneur best known for revolutionizing the refrigeration industry. He co-founded "Thermo King", which pioneered portable refrigeration technology for trucks, trains, ships, and plane dramatically tran

Rosewood, Florida was a small, predominantly African American town established in the late 19th century. By the early 20th century, it had become a loving community with a population of around 200 people. January 1923,The Rosewood Massacre occurred. It began when a white woman in a nearby town c