Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Crawford Goldsby was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam Sanders Scarborough is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery,...
Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of the Martin Luther King Jr. Sleet is...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca...
“This old hammer killed John Henry But it won’t kill me, it won’t kill me.” John Henry is an African American folk hero of extraordinary strength. John Henry was a “steel-driving...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding...
Frederick Bruce Thomas also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas was an African American who led an extraordinary life...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was one of the...
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
Richard Theodore Greener, the African-American educator, lawyer, consular officer and reformer was the first Black graduate of Harvard University and dean of the Howard University School of Law. Richard Greener was...
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…
