James Howard Meredith: is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser, and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American stu...
John Wesley Carlos is an American former track and field athlete and professional football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 19...
Tommie C. Smith: is an American former track & field athlete and former wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith...
Denmark Vesey: (born c. 1767, probably St. Thomas, Danish West Indies—died July 2, 1822, Charleston, S.C., U.S.), self-educated black who planned the most ex...
Dr. George C. Fraser: is Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc., a company he founded over 30 years ago, to lead a global networking and economic development mo...
Fredrick Allen Hampton: was an American Black Panther Party activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinoi...
As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture challenged the philosophy of nonviolence and interracial a...
Medgar Wiley Evers: was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had serve...
Dr. Umar Johnson: is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Certified School Psychologist who specializes in working with the parents of African-American childr...
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: loomed as a giant in the Black community of Harlem, not only as the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, but also as a communit...
Bobby Seale: was an African-American political activist and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Huey P Newton, co-f...
