Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white unit while the military was still formally...
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Josiah Henson: Founder of the Black community settlement of Dawn in Ontario, Canada
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario, Canada. He is widely believed to be...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights activist, who challenged segregation on public transportation, a full...
Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver
1. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” 2. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and...
Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their...
Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13...
Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the...
Juan Garrido: The first “African American”
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United States. African by birth, he went to...
Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]osa Parks was nationally recognized...
Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,...