American Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society, (1833–70), promoter, with its state and local auxiliaries, of the cause of immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. As the...
Henry Highland Garnet
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Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) was a leading member of the generation of black Americans who led the abolition movement away from moral suasion to political...
Alexander Miles
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Alexander Miles was an African-American inventor who was best known for being awarded a patent for an automatically opening and closing elevator door design in...
Samuel Scrottron
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Samuel Scrottron was an inventor of the late 1800s, best known for his invention of the curtain rod. It is unclear if Scrottron was born...
Osbourn Dorsey
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Osbourn Dorsey was an African-American man who invented the doorknob and doorstop in December of 1878. He successfully obtained a patent for his work in...
Willis Johnson
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African-American Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, patented and improved the mechanical egg beater (U.S. pat# 292,821) on February 5, 1884. The beater was made up of...
Reverend John Jasper
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Reverend John Jasper is arguably one of the most famous black ministers of nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia, who gained popularity for his electrifying preaching style and...
George Cook
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In 1899, black American inventor George Cook of Louisville, Kentucky, received a U.S. patent for an “Automatic Fishing Device” (No. 625,829). The device featured a...
Reverend Calvin Otis Butts
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Reverend Calvin Otis Butts III was born on July 19, 1949, in Bridgeport, Connecticut; his mother worked as an administrative assistant and his father was...
Warith Deen Mohammed
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Warith Deen Mohammed, original name Wallace D. Muhammad, (born Oct. 30, 1933, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Sept. 9, 2008, Markham, Ill.), American religious leader, son and...