Laura Wheeler was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marian Anderson. A...
Matilda Arabella Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. Evans was an advocate for improved health care for...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse and educator who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve...
Lucy Craft Laney was an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia, which became known as...
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an African American singer and actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years in all forms of...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on...