John Mercer Langston: a snapshot biography
John Mercer Langston would become a man of many firsts. But before his accomplishments, he was born in Virginia in 1829. John was born to a mixed-race couple. H...
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Frederick Douglass: a snapshot biography.
Upbringing & Early Years “I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and m...
Sissieretta Jones: a snapshot biography.
Sissieretta Jones Biography “I have a voice and I am striving to win the favor of the public by honest merit and hard work.” – Sissieretta Jon...
Ernest Everett Just: a snapshot biography.
Ernest Everett Just Biography The years of his life were often experienced with unkind treatment, as he faced much discrimination for being black. But through t...
Edmonia Lewis: sculptor and equality advocate
— Most people didn’t know her age; she kept those details a mystery. But no one questioned her remarkable talent. For as a sculptor, Edmonia Lewis w...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett quote: “The government…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett quote: “The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but deni...
Portrait of a family. South Carolina, 1862.
Portrait of a family in Beaufort, South Carolina, taken in 1862. — “Portrait of a family. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.” source: O’Sulli...
Harriet Tubman quote on freedom
So it was with me. I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a s...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader
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 Black A...
Anna Julia Cooper: Educator and equality advocate
Biography “It is not the intelligent woman vs. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman vs. the black, the brown, and the red,–it is not even the cau...