Category: snapshot 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 rights for B...

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...

Born to enslaved parents in 1864, Charles Young grew up in Ripley, Ohio, where the family moved after his father was discharged from the 5th United States Color...

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 was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WWII by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indica...

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...

“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, are the s...

Bert Williams was simple and kind, many liked him. He was also one of the best comedians of his time. “The funniest man I ever saw,” one fellow comedian describ...

Her full name was Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith. But most people called her Bricktop because of her red hair. Bricktop was born in Alderson,...

Selma Burke began playing with clay around the age of seven. And with that experience, she discovered a love of making sculptures. “It was there in 1907 t...