Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”, he played...
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Josephine Silone Yates: The first Black woman to hold a full professorship
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...
James Forten: One of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the 19th century
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2nd, 1776,...
Walter McAfee: The African American Astrophysicist
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana. Walter McAfee,...
Henry E. Baker: The First Chronicler of African American inventors
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...
Ron O’Neal aka Youngblood Priest
Ron O’Neal (September 1, 1937 – January 14, 2004) was an African American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as...
Eldridge Cleaver: His soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party....
Fred Hampton: “I Am a Revolutionary… I Am the People.”
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but you cannot jail liberation.” ~ Fred Hampton...
Otis Boykin: Inventor of a control unit for the artificial heart pacemaker
[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...
William E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1895, he became...