Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond was the Muhammad Ali of his day – quick-witted and fast to react...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and...
Louis Delgrès was an African-Caribbean freedom fighter who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe against Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to restore the Maafa, and chose death over surrender. Delgrès was born on...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a central figure in one of the most...
Gullah Jack, also known as Couter Jack and sometimes referred to as “Gullah” Jack Pritchard, was an African conjurer who is historically known for aiding Denmark Vesey in planning a large...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who...
Rei Amador, also known as the “General Captain of War” and “King Amador,” is a central figure in...
John Wesley Gilbert was a classical scholar who was the first African-American archaeologist. Gilbert discovered the ancient Greek city, Eretria, and produced the first map of the ancient structure. He was...
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…
