George Albert Flippin was born on February 16, 1878, in Port Clinton, Ohio, to parents who had escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad. When he...
Brice Union Taylor was born on February 5, 1969, in Bellflower, California. He attended Bellflower High School, where he played football and was named an...
Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American astronaut who was born on September 27, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an accomplished engineer and pilot who...
Sherman “Jocko” Maxwell was an African American athlete, soldier, and activist who was born on February 9, 1910, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and died on...
Donald “Muggsy” Murray was a pioneering African American student-athlete at the University of Maryland in the early 1960s. He was born on January 4, 1941,...