Prince Hall: The Father of Black Masonry
“… for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob.” Prince Hall was an African American abolitionist, who...
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Gertrude Bustill Mossell: A Renaissance Womanist
Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell was an African-American author, journalist, and teacher. The daughter of Charles and Emily Bustill, she came from a prominent family....
Thurgood Marshall: A Civil Rights Hero
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer, civil rights activist and the first African American member of the Supreme Court. As an attorney, Marshall successfully argued...
Medgar Evers: Mississippi Civil Rights Activist
Medgar Wiley Evers was a Black civil rights activist murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi for his efforts to overturn segregation at the University of...
Walter Francis White: A Blond African-American Civil Rights Activist
“I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon...
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.” ~ Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Born June 29,...
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man
“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an...