Susie King Taylor: The First Black Army Nurse
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during...
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Bill Richmond: The first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition
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...
Anna Murray Douglass: His story was made possible because of her love
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a free Black in rural Maryland, her parents,...
Robert Purvis: Radical African American abolitionist and reformer
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and businessman. Born on August 4, 1810 in...
Louis Delgrès: Resistance leader against the Maafa in Guadeloupe
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...
Lemuel Haynes: Religious leader and anti-Maafa activist
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the...
Anthony Burns: The Bostonian Fugitive
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a central figure in one of the most famous freedom‑seeker cases of the Maafa in...
Gullah Jack: “The Little Man Who Can’t Be Killed”
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...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy: The Carolina Twins
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who went by the stage names “The Carolina...
Rei Amador: General Captain of War
Rei Amador, also known as the “General Captain of War” and “King Amador,” is a central figure in the history of São Tomé and Príncipe....