The blood bank is something we take for granted now, but it wasn’t always so. As a researcher and surgeon, Dr. Charles Drew revolutionized the understanding...
Though she was able-bodied, Mary McLeod Bethune carried a cane because she said it gave her “swank.” educator, civil rights leader and adviser to five U.S. p...
James Baldwin knew it was his job to reveal the truth. The truth about his race. The truth about his country. The ugly truths of racism, poverty and inequali...
Ella Josephine Baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more ...
Rev. Richard Allen Preacher. Allen, his wife Sarah and others opened the doors of Bethel AME Church on July 29, 1794, on the site of a converted blacksmith s...
Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is widely regarded as one of the mos...
Robert Sengstacke Abbott the story of the pioneer of the black press involves slaves, Nazis and 25 cents. Born just five years after the end of the Civil War...
Thurgood Marshall is known as the first Black Justice of the United States Supreme Court but he is really defined by his work as a civil rights lawyer which ...
Rosa Parks for some, is known simply as a woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus, but her contributions to and role in Black History cannot be unders...
Claudette Colvin (1939-current) is a civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2nd, 1955 (a full nine months before the Rosa Parks incident), ...
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was an African-American author who dedicated her life to social change, becoming an abolitionist speaker and a reformer after esca...
George Washington Carver was born in 1860 in Diamond Grove, Missouri, and in spite of earlier issues, would advance to become one of the most commemorated an...
