Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy...
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Walter Tull: Black British War Hero
Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained...
Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all European regiment when the United States military...
Henry Johnson: Buffalo Soldier
After the civil war, regiments of African-American soldiers served on the western frontier, battling Native-Americans and protecting European settlers. They became known as Buffalo Soldiers....
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...
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...
Sarah Baartman: The “first” known Black female victim of trafficking
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth...
Madam C. J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was...