Blanche Kelso Bruce: African American Senator during the 19th Century
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]lanche Kelso Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi as a Republican from 1875...
Category : History Makers
Augusta Savage: African-American Sculptor
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess,...
Samuel Green: The African American Underground Railroad agent who helped Harriet Tubman
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated anti-slavery activist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by...
Ann Lowe: The African American Fashion Designer Who Created Jacqueline Kennedy’s Wedding Dress
Ann Cole Lowe was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe’s one-of-a-kind designs were a favorite among high society matrons from...
James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...
David Stuurman: Leader of the Khoi people
David Stuurman was a leader of the Khoi people, who fought against Dutch and the British colonialism in the Eastern Cape. Stuurman played a key...
Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The farm was...
Empress Taytu: Warrior Queen of the 1896 Battle of Adwa
Taytu Betul was a formidable queen and empress of Ethiopia (1889–1913). She was the wife of Emperor Menelek II, and was also the inspiration behind...
St. Josephine Bakhita: The only patron saint of Sudan
St. Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born woman who was enslaved before becoming a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years....
Zamor: The Black Jacobin
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery in the household of Louis XV’s mistress,...