Prince Philip on royal duty: In his own words
Despite the DoE’s many achievements in a long life of service, some will remember him as a man who was often blunt, sometimes to the...
Author : samepassage
Robert Lee Elder
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Robert Lee Elder (born July 14, 1934) is a retired American professional golfer. In 1975, he became the first African-American to play in the Masters...
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, (born March 20, 1870, Saarlouis, Rhine Province, Prussia [now in Germany]—died March 9, 1964, Hamburg), lieutenant colonel commanding Germany’s small African force...
The heroics of Aunt Polly Jackson who fought off white slavers to protect fugitives in the mid-1800s
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Slave rebellions and protests were not helping enslaved Africans in America gain their freedom, and this led them to devise other forceful means of obtaining...
Edmonia Lewis
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Edmonia Lewis, in full Mary Edmonia Lewis, (born c. July 4, 1844, Greenbush, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1907, London, Eng.), an American sculptor whose Neoclassical...
Victor J. Glover, Jr
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He is currently...
Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch
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Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with RAF No 102 Squadron, photographed wearing his flying kit by the rear turret...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to increase his owner’s slave populations
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The disturbing history of the slave trade brings to mind the horrifying experiences enslaved Africans had to go through while working on plantations in the...
African American & Sacagawea Contributions
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A black man by the name of York accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition as a slave to Clark. He had been a childhood companion...
Ganga Zumba
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Ganga Zumba was a leader of the quilombo or the Maroon state of Palmares. The little that historians know about him comes from accounts of the Luso-Brazilian...