Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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Arthur Ashe is the first African American, and is still the only, African-American male player to win the...
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William Harrison “Bones” Dillard was an African‑American Olympic track and field athlete. Dillard was the finest hurdler of...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly...
John Wesley Gilbert was a classical scholar who was the first African-American archaeologist. Gilbert discovered the ancient Greek...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the...
“Love is a torrential storm of feeling; it thrives only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.” “The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps there was no greater crime as...
