Jill Elaine Brown
Jill Elaine Brown became the first African American woman to serve as a pilot for a major U.S airline when she was hired by Texas...
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Ruth Carol Taylor
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Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States when she joined Mohawk Airlines in 1958. While she is...
Charles L. Gittens
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Charles L. Gittens was an American Secret Service agent. He joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency’s first African American agent. An Army...
Robert C. Maynard
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Robert C. Maynard was a pioneering journalist and newspaper publisher who made significant contributions to the field of journalism. Born on June 17, 1937, in...
Harry Herbert Pace
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Harry Herbert Pace was the founder of the first black record company, Pace Phonograph Corporation which sold recordings under the Black Swan Records label. He...
William Grant Still
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Often regarded as the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still made an indelible mark on the American music landscape. Born in Woodville, Mississippi...
Frances Ellen Watkins
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A poet and essayist, Frances Ellen Watkins was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1825. Orphaned at the age of three, Watkins went to live with...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, née Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, (born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut), American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written and published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, was the most popular 19th-century novel and, after the Bible, was the second-best-selling...
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
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Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield had little reason to dream of the life that would eventually become her own. ...