Hazel Scott
Hazel Scott was a trailblazing jazz pianist, singer, and actress who made a name for herself in the entertainment industry during the mid-20th century. Born...
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James Baskett
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James Baskett, the first male African American to win an Academy Award, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 16, 1904. After high school, Baskett...
Butterfly McQueen
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Thelma McQueen attended public school in Augusta, Georgia and graduated from high school in Long Island, New York. She studied dance with Katherine Dunham, Geoffrey...
Hattie McDaniel
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Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was born on June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas, and passed away on October 26,...
Oscar Micheaux
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Oscar Micheaux was the quintessential self-made man. Novelist, film-maker, and relentless self-promoter, Micheaux was born on a farm near Murphysboro, Illinois. He worked briefly as...
Lincoln Motion Picture Company
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African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films...
Charles Gordone
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Charles Gordone was born Charles Edward Fleming on October 12, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio to parents William and Camille Fleming. He took his stepfather’s surname...
Francis Johnson
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Francis Johnson, musician, composer, and bandmaster was born in 1792 in Martinique in the West Indies and emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1809 at the...
Minister Jarena Lee
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Minister Jarena Lee was the first authorized female preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. Lee, whose family or maiden name is unknown, was...
Briton Hammon
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Briton Hammon, whose birth and death dates are unknown, was the author of A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon,...