Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman in Montréal, was charged with arson after a fire leveled Montréal’s merchants’ quarter. It was alleged that...
Laura Wheeler was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marian Anderson. A...
Matilda Arabella Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. Evans was an advocate for improved health care for...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse and educator who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve...
Addie Mae Collins was one of the four African-American girls, murdered in a racially motivated terrorist attack perpetrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan,...
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