William “Billie” Thomas Jr. (1931-1980)
William “Billie” Thomas Jr was a child actor who portrayed the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang (Little Rascals)…
Murder Inc Records (1998-)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Murder Inc Records, a Hip Hop…
Dj Screw/Robert Earl Davis (1971-2000)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Robert Earl “DJ Screw” Davis was…
Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson
Bernette Joshua Johnson is a retired Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. She is the first African American woman…
John H. Baker Jr. (1935-2007)
John Haywood Baker Jr. was elected Sheriff of Wake County, North Carolina in 1978. A former professional football player, with…
Isadore Banks (1895-1954)
Isadore Banks was 59 years old African American landowner who disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks was born on July…
Summer Lee (1987- )
Summer Lynn Lee is a lawyer, and politician, who has served as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district…
Kelly Miller Smith Sr. (1920-1984)
Kelly Miller Smith Sr, named after the prominent educator and civil rights leader Kelly Miller, was a Baptist preacher, author,…
Jacob Francis Wheaton (1835-1924)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Jacob Francis Wheaton’s home in Hagerstown,…
Little River County Race War (1899)
The Little River County Race War began in March 1899 in southwestern Arkansas and quickly spilled over into neighboring northeastern…
Martin Luther King Cobo Hall Speech (June 23, 1963)
Two months before the March on Washington, King stood before a throng of 25,000 people at Cobo Hall in Detroit…
Emery Neal Brown (1956- )
Emery Neal Brown is one of a small number of African American scientists who came to prominence near the start…
Constance Marie Tucker (1950-2015)
Connie Tucker was a Black freedom struggle and an environmental justice (EJ) movement leader. She was also a political prisoner…
Theresa M. Claiborne (1959- )
Captain Theresa Mae Claiborne was the first African American woman to become a U.S. Air Force pilot. Capt. Claiborne referenced…
Sheriff Ennis W. Wright (1959-)
Ennis W. Wright is the first African American Sheriff of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. He’s a native of Cumberland…
Charles Banks (1873-1923)
Booker T. Washington once called Charles Banks the “most influential businessman in the United States” and Mississippi’s “leading Negro Banker.”…
Claudine Gay (1970-)
Claudine Gay (1970– )Dr. Claudine Gay made history on December 17, 2022 when it was announced that she was appointed…
Alexander Louis Jackson, II (1891-1973)
Alexander Louis Jackson II, historian, journalist, athlete, and one of five founders of the Association for the Study of African…
Irene Cara (1959-2022)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Irene Cara Escalera was a singer,…
Kristen Nicole Hayden (1998- )
Kristen Nicole Hayden is the first African American woman to win a national diving championship. Born March 2, 1998 in…
Edwin Lowell Cooper (1936- )
Edwin L. Cooper, an internationally-recognized biologist and immunologist, is credited as the founder of comparative immunology. Cooper was born on…
Victoria Renee Woodards (1965- )
Victoria Renee Woodards was elected Tacoma, Washington’s 39th mayor on November 7th, 2017 and thus became the second woman of…
James F. Williams (1963- )
James F. Williams serves as the managing partner of the Perkins Coie office in Seattle, Washington, the largest law office…
Nicholas W. Brown (1977- )
Nicholas (“Nick”) Brown is the first African American to serve as United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.…
Charles Jackson French (1919-1956)
Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French was hailed as the “hero of the Solomons” and the “Human Tugboat” after…
Degas Wright (1963- )
Investment analyst Degas A. Wright was born in April 1963, in Lithonia, Georgia. Wright attended the United States Military Academy…
Daniel McCree (1800?- ?)
Born in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1800s Daniel McCree is best known for patenting of the portable fire escape…
Kenneth Olden (1938- )
Kenneth Olden, a cell biologist, biochemist, and cancer researcher, is the founding dean at the School of Public Health of…
Evelynn M. Hammonds (1953- )
Professor Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American…
Leland Devon Melvin (1964- )
Leland Melvin is a former NFL player, chemist, and retired NASA astronaut. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on February…
Journal of Negro History (1916- )
On January 1, 1916, The Journal of Negro History (now The Journal of African American History), an award-winning peer viewed…
Karine Jean-Pierre (1977- )
Karine Jean-Pierre is best known as the second Black woman (after Judy Smith in the George W. Bush White House),…
Toni Michele Braxton (1967- )
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Toni Michele Braxton is an R&B…
NFL Network Introduces Malik Willis’ ‘Mom’ At NFL Draft — But It Wasn’t His Mom
NFL Draft prospect Malik Willis wasn’t chosen Thursday in the first round, but the Liberty University quarterback still came away…
Naya Marie Rivera (1987-2020)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Naya Marie Rivera was an actress,…
Ernesta Procope (1923-2021)
Businesswoman Ernesta Gertrude Forster, more commonly known as Ernesta Procope, was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 2, 1923.…
Mark D. Johnson (?- )
Mark Damone Johnson is a professor of neurological surgery and Senior Consulting Vice Provost for Mentorship, Leadership and Transformation at…
Craig E. Cameron (1965- )
Craig E. Cameron is the Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at…
Da Brat/Shawntae Harris (1974- )
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris is a…
The St. Augustine Movement (1963-1964)
The St. Augustine Movement was a series of civil rights protests that occurred in St. Augustine, Florida between 1963 and…
Biloxi Wade-Ins (1959-1963)
The Biloxi Wade-In civil rights protests were conducted by local African Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959…
Lena Lowery Sawner (1874-1949)
Lena Lowery Sawner was Oklahoma’s first Black public school principal as well as its first female public school principal. She…
The Black Maroons of Florida (1693-1850)
The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen, were a community derived from…
Robert Nobles (? -)
Dr Robert Nobles is the Vice President for Research Administration at Emory University. His appoint began on December 1, 2019.…
Marcus Jacques Garvey, Jr. (1930-2020)
Marcus Jacques Garvey, Jr., was the oldest son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association…
Dead Prez (1996- )
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Dead Prez is hip hop music…
Nate Dogg/Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (1969-2011)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Dwayne Hale was…
Shalanda Young (1977- )
Shalanda Delores Young is a U.S. policy advisor who is the first Black woman to serve as Director of the…
Contraband Relief Association (1862-1865)
At the beginning of the Civil War, there were approximately two million enslaved women. An estimated 500,000 of these women…
Black Caucus of the American Library Association (1970- )
Black librarians have always gathered at meetings to discuss the relevance of their profession and the needs and desires of…
Rocky Fork Underground Railroad Community (1816- )
In 1816, Rocky Fork near Godfrey, Illinois, was established by four free African American families who purchased five adjacent parcels…
Jackée Harry (1956- )
Television actor, comedian, and television personality Jackée Harry was born Jacqueline Yvonne Harry, the daughter of Flossie Harry from Trinidad…
Pierre George Deslondes (1829-1885)
Pierre G. Deslondes (last name sometimes spelled Deslonde) was an African American sugar planter and wealthy free man of color…
William Reynolds v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1903)
In 1879 the Kansas State Legislature passed a law permitting first class cities in Kansas (cities with a population of…
Rhode Island Constitution of 1842
After American independence most states wrote constitutions that mirrored the national constitution with minor differences. The state of Rhode Island…
Robyn A. Crittenden (1964- )
Robyn A. Crittenden is an American attorney in the state of Georgia who was born in Long Island, New York.…
Elgin “Rabbit” Baylor (1934-2021)
Ball handling wizard Elgin “Rabbit” Baylor was born Elgin Gay Baylor on September 16, 1934, in Washington, D.C. to John…
Emmett Till Antilynching Act
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of AmericaAT THE SECOND SESSIONBegun and held at the City of Washington…
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (1977- )
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr is a professional boxer and boxing promoter. Mayweather was born on February 24, 1977, to Floyd…
The Watts Truce (1992)
Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!The Watts Truce was a peace…