Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she held New Orleans spellbound, as her occult...
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Otis Redding: The King of Soul
Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in Soul and R&B. Known...
Horace King: From Enslaved Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]orace King was an African American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. King built the biggest American bridges in the mid 1800’s, and is considered...
Ruby Bridges: The six year old heroine
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American South. Bridges was six years old and...
Jacob Lawrence: Celebrated painter of the African-American experience
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as...
Claudette Colvin: Arrested nine months before Rosa Parks
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...
Lewis Latimer: Prolific African American Inventor
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for the sheer number of inventions created and...
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...
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,...