Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to...
Samuel Green was an African American self-emancipated man, Methodist exhorter, farmer, and Underground Railroad agent. In 1857, amid...
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Ann Cole Lowe was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe’s one-of-a-kind designs were a favorite among high society matrons from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her...
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years...
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“I’ve been marked for death within the next five days.” By early 1965 most of Malcolm’s closest friends...
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