Anna Arnold Hedgeman
July 5, 1899 – January 17, 1990 Politician / Educator / Author Anna Arnold was [...]
Louis Daniel Armstrong
August 4, 1901* – July 6, 1971 Musician / Singer / Entertainer Louis Armstrong was [...]
Prince Hall
1735 – 1807 Fraternal Leader / Abolitionist Prince Hall was known for his role in [...]
Denmark Vesey (aka Telemaque)
1767 — July 2, 1822 Carpenter / Clergyman / Abolitionist / Revolutionary Denmark Vesey was [...]
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.
July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970 Military Hero (Brigadier General) / Buffalo Soldier Benjamin [...]
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010 Recording Artist / Actress / Activist Lena Mary [...]
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998 Activist / Author / Revolutionary Kwame Ture was [...]
Douglas Dollarhide
March 11, 1923 – June 28, 2008 Politician Douglas Dollarhide was born in March 1923 [...]
Ruby Middleton Forsythe
June 27, 1905 – May 29, 1992 Educator Ruby Middleton was born in Charleston, South [...]
Shannon G. “Shay” Sharpe
Born June 26, 1968 Football Player / Media Personality Shannon Goad Sharpe was born on [...]
The Story of Thomas Peters and the Black Loyalists of Sierra Leone
1738 - June 25, 1792 Freedom Fighter of the Revolutionary War Settler of Nova Scotia [...]
M. Sissieretta Joyner Jones
January 5, 1869 – June 24, 1933 Opera Singer (Soprano) Matilda Sissieretta Joyner was born [...]