Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
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Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she held New Orleans spellbound, as her occult powers became legendary. The crypt where...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of Rhode Island. Yates was also one...
“I Always Wanted to Be Somebody.” Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to win a...
On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis...
Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be “the greatest woman of the [African] race”. Davis has come to be considered...
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…
