Dr. Edmund W. Gordon
Dr. Edmund W. Gordon (born June 13, 1921, in Goldsboro, North Carolina), a professor of psychology, “had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology,...
Category : Education
Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Charlotte Forten Grimké, née Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten, (born August 17, 1837, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 23, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist and educator best...
John Brown Russwurm
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John Russwurm, born on October 1, 1799, in Jamaica, British West Indies, was the son of a Creole woman and a white American father. In...
Gladys Mae West
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Gladys Mae West (née Brown) (born 1930 or 1931) is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematics underpinning Global Positioning Systems. In...
Joycelyn Elders
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Joycelyn Elders, née Minnie Joycelyn Jones, (born August 13, 1933, Schaal, Arkansas, U.S.), American physician and public health official who served (1993–94) as U.S. surgeon...
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
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Charles Spurgeon Johnson, (born July 24, 1893, Bristol, Va., U.S.—died Oct. 27, 1956, Louisville, Ky.), U.S. sociologist, authority on race relations, and the first black...
Lois Mailou Jones
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Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was a prominent African-American artist in the mid- to late-twentieth century. In addition to teaching at Howard University for several decades,...
James Van Der Zee
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James Van Der Zee (1886-1983) was an influential African-American photographer who gained recognition for his portrait photography during the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic...
Herman Branson
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Born on 14 August 1914 in Pocahontas, Virginia, Herman Branson was a biophysicist and university president who co-discovered the alpha-helix protein structure. He received a...