Edmonia Lewis: sculptor and equality advocate
“There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in t...
Category: snapshot biographies
American Tenor Roland Hayes
As the story goes, Roland Hayes, an American tenor who some considered the greatest of his time, came to Germany for a performance in 1927. In advance of his sh...
French Resistance Operative Jeannette Guyot
Jeannette Guyot joined the French resistance fighting Nazi occupation during World War II in 1940. Barely in her twenties at the time, she would take on many da...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader
Biography Intro Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in nonviolent resistance as the path to gaining equal ri...
Anna Julia Cooper: Educator and equality advocate
Anna Julia Cooper was an example for all and a teacher to many. Born enslaved in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858, she started school at the age of nine. Nearly...
Charles Young: Short Story Biography
Charles Young was born into enslavement in Mays Lick, Kentucky, in 1864. But while born enslaved, his life quickly changed. In early 1865, Charles’ father...
Chemist Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed a treatment for leprosy after becoming the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s deg...
Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WWII by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indica...
Actress Olivia de Havilland: a snapshot biography
Olivia de Havilland performed in forty-nine feature films and won multiple Academy and Golden Globe awards. But her career almost ended well before stardom. Dee...
Langston Hughes: writer, “My People” & other works
Biography “The night is beautiful,So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful,So the eyes of my people Beautiful, also, is the sun.Beautiful, also,...