“This old hammer killed John Henry But it won’t kill me, it won’t kill me.” John Henry is...
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding in an old wooden sailor’s chest. The chest containing Green was delivered to...
Frederick Bruce Thomas also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas was an African American who led an extraordinary life...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked...
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury appeared on United States paper money from 1861 until...
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage...
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a...
Richard Theodore Greener, the African-American educator, lawyer, consular officer and reformer was the first Black graduate of Harvard University and dean of the Howard University School of Law. Richard Greener was...
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court....
[dropcap size=big]R[/dropcap]ichmond Barthé was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Barthe was one of the first sculptors to focus on Black people as his main subjects, achieving critical acclaim,...
