Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His invention was first flown on sounding rockets in 1966 and made the first...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston,...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
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Troy Anthony Davis was an African American man convicted of and executed for the murder of police officer...
George Wells Parker was an African-American political activist and historian who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World,...
Andrew “Rube” Foster was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. Foster also founded and managed the...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
Jesse Owens achieved feats that made him one of the most celebrated track-and-field athletes of the twentieth century. In his lifetime, he was described as “perhaps the greatest and most famous...
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…
