Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for...
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of Rhode Island. Yates was also one...
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born...
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar...
Henry Edwin Baker, Jr. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as...
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but...
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]tis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer. Boykin is credited with patenting twenty-eight electronic devices and inventing an improved electrical resistor model that is still used today in...
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…
