Category: snapshot 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, 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...

Audrey Hepburn was a star amongst the stars. An icon of film and fashion and a humanitarian who dedicated herself to helping those in need. Born in Brussels, Be...

Born in Los Angeles in 1905 as Wong Liu-Tsong, she would become an actress, known to the world as Anna May Wong. Anna May fell in love with movies at a young ag...

Inman E. Page escaped enslavement with his family when he was ten years old. Fourteen years later, in 1877, Inman, who had become known as an eloquent orator, w...

Vida Goldstein was arguably the most famous woman in Australia in the early 1900s. Charming and well-spoken, an ardent fighter for equality and peace, Vida beli...

Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...

People called Mary McLeod Bethune “The First Lady of The Struggle.” The struggle being improving life for African Americans. Born in 1875 in a small...