Annie Malone
Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1879 – May 10, 1957) was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. She is considered to be one of the first African American women…
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Marie Van Brittan Brown (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an American nurse and innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system along with her husband…
William T. Shorey
William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab. He was born in…
Slocum Massacre
The Slocum Massacre occurred on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, Texas, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. Only six deaths were officially confirmed, but some…
Memphis Riots Of 1866
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and…
Battle Of Negro Fort
Negro Fort (African Fort) was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish…
Ivory Bangle Lady
The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton found in Sycamore Terrace, York in 1901. She was a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in…
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring…
Ota Benga
Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri,…
Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) was an American politician, diplomat and legal scholar. She served as the 6th United States secretary of housing and urban…