Louis Wade Sullivan
After witnessing poverty and discrimination in Depression-era Georgia, Louis Wade Sullivan committed his career to education and public service, rising to become Secretary of Health...
Category : Education
Septima Poinsette Clark
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Septima Poinsette Clark was a teacher and civil rights activist whose citizenship schools helped enfranchise and empower African Americans. Born on May 3, 1898, in...
Frances Cress Welsing
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The second of three girls, Frances Cress Welsing was born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, into a family that had already produced two...
Mary Ann Shadd
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Born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1823, Mary Ann Shadd was a teacher, journalist, and outspoken leader of the Canadian emigration movement during the 1850s. Shadd...
Henry Bibb
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Henry Bibb, lecturer, abolitionist, author, and newspaperman; b. 10 May 1815 in Shelby County, Ky, son of James Bibb and Milldred Jackson, a slave; m. first 1833 Malinda ——,...
Dr. George Franklin Grant
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Dr. George Franklin Grant was the first African American professor at Harvard. He was born in Oswego, New York to former slaves. When he was...
Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin
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On July 17, 1888, Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin became the second African American woman to receive a patent from the United States government for her invention...
Terri L. Young, M.D.
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Pediatric ophthalmologist Terri L. Young, M.D., has researched the molecular genetics of myopia to help find better treatments for eye disorders. She has been an...
Dr. Jeanne Spurlock
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Physician, educator, and writer Dr. Jeanne Spurlock drew inspiration in her career from the challenges she faced in life as an African American woman. As...
Dr. JudyAnn Bigby
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JudyAnn Bigby, M.D., served as director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. She is devoted to the health care needs...