1967
Joins the Delta Epsilon chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha at Norfolk State University.
1967
Receives a Bachelor of Arts in history and social sciences from Norfolk State University.
1971
Is inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society at Hampton University; Earns a Master of Arts in history education at Hampton University.
1984
Is the first Black education specialist at the United States Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown, VA.
1988
Is inducted into Who’s Who of American Education.
1994
Is the first Black education specialist for the Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center at Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, VA.
2010
Is a member of the board of directors of Project 1619.Inc in Hampton, VA through today.
2016
Serves as president of the Hampton Roads Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History through today.
2019
Serves on the City of Hampton Commemorative Commission recognizing the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies.
2019
Writes a litany commemorating the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, which has been used every year since by the descendants of William Tucker, the first documented African child born in the English colonies.
2020
Is appointed as a historian for the Lambda Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Newport News, VA.