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Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
An American Gospel singer and guitarist.

Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin is the creator of the 1963’s momentous March on Washington.


Bass Reeves, the Real Lone Ranger
Bass Reeves, the real "Lone Ranger" was the first Black deputy U.S. Marshal, west of the Mississippi River. A former slave turned...


Earl Lloyd, The First Black NBA Player
Earl Lloyd made history as the first African-American NBA player on Oct. 31, 1950. Lloyd played for the Washington Capitols, scoring six...

Wataru Misaka
Wataru Misaka is the first non-Caucasian player in professional basketball. He was drafted in 1947 by the New York Knicks. Born in 1923...

John Henry Hale
John Henry Hale is one of the first prominent African American surgeons in Black History. He and his wife opened a hospital in Tennessee.

Viola Liuzzo
Viola Liuzzo is said to be the only white woman murdered for being a part of the 1960s civil rights movement. Her sacrifice is an example...

Paul R. Williams
Paul R. Williams is the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects, a celebrated California architect.

Elizabeth Jennings, The 1st Woman to Refuse to Give Up Her Seat
If there were no Elizabeth Jennings Graham, we might have never had Rosa Parks. Born 1827 in New York – the same year slavery ended in...

Junius Groves
Junius George Groves, born in slavery in 1859, in Louisville, Kentucky, moved to Kansas at the age of 19 where he worked at meat packing...

Jacob Francis Wheaton
Jacob Francis Wheaton was born a free Black man on Valentine's Day 1835. Active in the freedom movement, Wheaton's home in Hagerstown,...

Callie House
Callie House was born into slavery in Rutherford County Tennessee in 1861 and following the Civil War and ratification of the 13th...

Belinda Sutton of Massachusetts and Her 1713 Fight for Reparations.
Belinda Sutton may be the first formerly enslaved person to demand and receive reparations. Born in Ghana in 1713, Belinda Sutton was...


How Wong Kim Ark Saved Birth-right Citizenship
Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873. His parents were Chinese citizens who had come to the U.S. for the same reason as many...

MUSTAPHA SHAW
Shaw is the epitome of a leader – one who fights for their rights, for their people’s rights and when denied finds another way to...
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