Ossian Sweet: Acquitted of murder in the Sweet Trials
Ossian Sweet was an African American physician in Detroit, Michigan, noted for his armed self-defense in 1925 of his newly purchased home in a whyte...
Category : Biographies
Oliver Tambo: Holding the anti-apartheid movement together
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the Black African opposition to apartheid in South...
Emmett Chappelle: The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame African-American Biochemist whose discovery led to a potential method of detecting life on other planet
Emmett Chappelle is an African American scientist who has made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry. Chappelle is the recipient...
Yaa Asantewaa: Queen Mother of the Ashanti Empire
“Yaa Asantewaa The woman who fights before cannons You have accomplished great things You have done well” Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921)...
Henry Blair: 2nd Black inventor issued a patent by the U.S. Patent Office
Henry Blair was the second documented African-American inventor to be issued a patent by the United States Patent Office. Born in 1807, Blair received his...
John S. Rock: Originator of “Black is Beautiful”
John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United State. Rock was an...
Hiram Rhodes Revels: The First African American Senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political orientation and oratorical skills honed from years...
George Jackson: Soledad Brother
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life...
Venture Smith: The son of a prince who was abducted into slavery
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as a boy and sold into the Maafa...
Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera: The first Black Olympian
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, who competed for France in 1900. As...