Born into the Maafa (Atlantic slavery) in the 1770s, York achieved fame as the sole African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Virginia...
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...
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...
[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 was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker, a businessman and finally an inventor. He...
Born on March 28th in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ed Wilson became interested in art as a child while recovering from rheumatic fever. When he returned...
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