Elijah Muhammad: Leader of the Nation of Islam
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the black separatist religious movement known as the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslims) in the...
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Malcolm X
“By any means necessary.” Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was the greatest and most influential Black Nationalist leader...
Vernon Johns: “Father of the Civil Rights Movement”
Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was the visionary Baptist preacher in segregationist Montgomery, Alabama who, in the early 1950s, helped ignite...
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]artin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Room 306. Around...
Khalid Abdul Muhammad: Bold and Uncompromising Warrior
Khalid Abdul Muhammad was the militant spokesman of the Nation of Islam and Chairman of the New Black Panther Party. Born Harold Moor Jr. on...
Paul Bogle: Leader of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, and leader of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, an event that transformed the political system of the...
Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr.: The first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Philosophy
Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr. was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Philosophy (1903, Yale University). He was a writer, orator, ethicist, and...
Thomas Lewis Johnson: Twenty-Eight Years a “Slave”
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in...
Lemuel Haynes: Religious leader and anti-Maafa activist
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the...
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the largest Maafa (slavery) uprising in American history. A skilled...