Ellen Irene Diggs was a Black American anthropologist best known for her studies of Afro-Latin culture and society, especially African influences on Cuban culture.
A few years after the end of the Revolutionary War, America's first black poet sat in his slave quarters on Lloyd's Neck and composed an eloquent address to his brethren. He looked back at the war and the cause of liberty for which it was fought
When Still was 23, he left the family farm in New Jersey for Philadelphia, to seek his fortune. He arrived, friendless with only five dollars in his possession. Still taught himself to read so well, that in three years he was able to hold the position of
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton called himself the "father of the Black Exodus," a movement that began during the late 1860s and continued into the 1880s, when thousands of freedmen resettled in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Indiana, and other
David Walker was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1785. Although his father was a slave, his mother was a free woman, and so according to the law of the land, Walker, too, was free from the chains of slavery. And yet in spite of this, the facts of i
As the daughter of one of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society's founding members, Douglass became active in the abolitionist movement at a young age. She developed a distaste for the prejudices of white Quakers early on and devoted much of h
In 1856, at the age of 30, she went to work for the American Anti-slavery Society. She had first come to public notice three years before when she was ejected from a Boston theater because she refused to sit in a segregated gallery. She was handled roughl
List of categorized links on the internet that provide information about this prominent African-American scientist and his research at Tuskegee Institute.
According to one of Pierpoint's own few memories that have been written down, from a petition in 1821, we learn he was about 16 years old when captured as a slave and shipped to North America around 1760. As a boy he grew up in a country called Bondu
