Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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John Wesley Gilbert was a classical scholar who was the first African-American archaeologist. Gilbert discovered the ancient Greek...
William Henry Johnson emerged from his participation in the First World War as one of the most extraordinary...
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“… for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob.” Prince...
Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell was an African-American author, journalist, and teacher. The daughter of Charles and Emily Bustill, she came from a prominent family. Her great-grandfather, Cyrus Bustill, served in...
Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the...
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer, civil rights activist and the first African American member of the Supreme...
Medgar Wiley Evers was a Black civil rights activist murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi for his efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. A World War II veteran...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
