Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad across many states and then helped...
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...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first African American to hold a regular professorship at a predominantly Euro-American college in...
George Latimer, the father of inventor Lewis Howard Latimer, was the first fugitive from the Maafa (Atlantic slavery)...
“… for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob.” Prince...
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña ( August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831), the Mexican national hero was the first Black president in North America, when he became the second president of...
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…
