Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first official poet laureate. In 2010 Troupe...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
Richard Potter, c. 1783–1835, was a pioneering magician, ventriloquist, and humorist. Widely regarded as the first American-born professional...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic bread maker. Joseph Lee was born on July 19, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts....
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. He was the first Black musician to enlist during the Civil War and...
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…
