Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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 Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
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 Guerrero was one of the principal military leaders of Mexico’s struggle for independence and the country’s second president. A national hero in Mexico, he took office on 1 April 1829...
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…
