James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a whyte woman. His...