Be inspired by fascinating men and women whose drive and determination transformed our country and our lives.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority for Black women, found itself in the spotlight at election time in 2020. The very first woman to be elected Vice President of the […]
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David Ruggles was among the early Black abolitionists and had a strong influence on those who followed. He was thoughtful, aggressive, and unapologetic in all that he undertook. It was
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Oscar Micheaux was the first Black film director to make a full-length movie. Over the course of his career, he told realistic stories of Black lives, beginning with his first
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Granville Woods was a prolific and exceptionally talented Black inventor. He specialized in creating new ways to use electricity. Many of Woods’s inventions related to the railroad, but he also
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Ruth Robertson was a photojournalist, war correspondent, and explorer at a time when few women had careers at all, let alone one that involved traveling the world. Robertson (1905-1998) achieved
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Automobile travel in the early 1900s was very difficult. Roads were largely unpaved, maps were few, and cars were for the very rich. Mining heir Robert Guggenheim, 24, loved to
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