Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Horace King was an African American architect, engineer, master carpenter, and bridge builder. He became one of the...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for...
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of Rhode Island. Yates was also one...
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born...
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar...
Henry Edwin Baker, Jr. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where...
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…
