Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker,...
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 to school full time his...
“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that...
Harold Lloyd Nicholas, born on March 27, 1921, was one half of the world-famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers. His...
On March 26 1872, Thomas J Martin, an African-American, was granted a patent for his version of the fire extinguisher. Martin’s invention, listed in the U. S. Patent Office in Washington,...
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and...
Janet Harmon Bragg was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial...
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he loved remained in bondage. He went...
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…
