St. Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born woman who was enslaved before becoming a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years....
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca Davis Lee Crumpler, was the first African-American...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding in an old wooden sailor’s chest. The...
Frederick Bruce Thomas also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas was an African American who led an extraordinary life in Russia and later, Constantinople (now known...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first African American female physician specializing in obstetrics...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court. Slew was the first ‘enslaved’ person to...
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]rthur Schomburg was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illa B. Brown was the first African-American woman to become a licensed pilot in the United States. She was also the first Black officer...