Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13...
Category : Biographies
Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the...
Juan Garrido: The first “African American”
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United States. African by birth, he went to...
Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]osa Parks was nationally recognized...
Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,...
Yosef Ben-Jochannan: Dr. Ben
“The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented…as having started some time around 1830 AD when France invaded Cueta, the most northern part...
Sarah Baartman: The “first” known Black female victim of trafficking
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth...
Madam C. J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was...
Ernest Morrison: The first Black child movie star
Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy, was most famous as one...
William A. Hinton: The first African American to author a medical textbook
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to publish an academic textbook. As a bacteriologist,...