Black leaders have been vital to making America strong.
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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Invented a permanent wave machine that added curl to straight hair and could be used to straighten curly hair Became national supervisor for more than 200 beauty colleges owned by
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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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Dovey Johnson Roundtree (1914-2018) was a pioneering civil rights activist, attorney, and a minister in the AME Church. She accomplished all this with a family who stood behind her.
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John Lewis was a remarkable man, a Congressman from Georgia and a long-time, front-line civil rights leader. His moral leadership will be missed now that he’s gone. Since he was
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