Oscar Marion
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of General Francis Marion (1732–1795). The general was...
Category : Biographies
York: The Black Explorer
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and...
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man
“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an...
Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in...
Walter Moses Burton: The first Black elected sheriff in the United States
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in Texas....
Robert Smalls: Civil War Hero
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights leader in the Reconstruction South, serving five terms in...
Booker T. Washington: The African-American Leader who came “Up From Slavery”
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty to become the most influential Black educator of the...
Gordon – “The Scourged Back”
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A...
Vicente Guerrero: The First Black President in North America
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña ( August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831), the Mexican national hero was the first Black president in North America, when...
Ten Things To Know About Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a prosperous home; his father was a local...