Margaret Walker: A Literary Mother
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and emerged as a “literary mother” to writers...
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Satchel Paige: Baseball trailblazer
Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (July 7, 1906-June 8, 1982) was an African-American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who became a legend...
John Wesley Gilbert: The first African-American Archaeologist
John Wesley Gilbert was a classical scholar who was the first African-American archaeologist. Gilbert discovered the ancient Greek city, Eretria, and produced the first map...
Viola Desmond: Black Canadian Civil Rights Pioneer
Civil rights pioneer, Viola Desmond, was a Black-Canadian businesswoman who was jailed and fined in 1946 for refusing to give up her seat in the...
Rafael Cordero: The Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico
Rafael Cordero, known as “The Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico”, was a self-educated Puerto Rican who provided free schooling to children regardless of...
Sergeant Henry Johnson: The soldier called “Black Death”
Sergeant Henry Johnson (1897-July 5, 1929), a member of the all-Black 369th Army Infantry became a hero when, after being wounded 21 times, he singlehandedly...
George Latimer: A Cause Célèbre
George Latimer, the father of inventor Lewis Howard Latimer, was the first fugitive from the Maafa (Atlantic slavery) whose arrest, imprisonment, trial, and emancipation, as...
James Armistead: The African-American Double-Agent during the Revolutionary War
James Armistead [Lafayette], an enslaved African American, was the most important revolutionary war spy during the American Revolution. Born into the Maafa (slavery) around December...
Peter “The Black Prince” Jackson: International Boxing Legend
Although Peter Jackson never fought for the heavyweight crown, he is generally regarded as an all-time great. Jackson was a top contender of his day,...
Prince Hall: The Father of Black Masonry
“… for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob.” Prince Hall was an African American abolitionist, who...