Black leaders have been vital to making America strong.
Charles Young (1864-1922) graduated from West Point and went on to achieve the rank of colonel in the military, the highest rank of any African American in the early 20th […]
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-female Black military unit created in 1944. (Recently, a few others were identified as members of the 6888. There was at least
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Allen Hoskins (1920-1980) was just 14 months old when he was cast as Farina in Hal Roach’s “Little Rascals.” (These film shorts became better known as the Our Gang comedies.)
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May Edward Chinn made significant contributions to medicine in both cancer diagnosis and as the only woman doctor in Harlem in the 1920s. Early Life
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Arthur Crumpler escaped slavery and overcame the fact that slaves were prevented from learning to read or write; he attended night school when he was in his sixties. The article
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Grace Wisher, age 13, was an indentured servant in the home of flagmaker Mary Pickersgill of Baltimore. She worked alongside Pickersgill’s group of women who sewed the over-sized flag we
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