Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman who lived in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She was owned by Thomas...
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Oscar J. Dunn
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Louisiana’s First Black Lieutenant Governor Oscar J. Dunn is significant in Louisiana’s history as the first Black Lieutenant Governor. Born in New Orleans, Dunn’s life...
Dutty Boukman
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Catalyst of the Haitian Revolution Dutty Boukman, also known as Boukman Dutty, stands as a significant figure in the annals of history for his pivotal...
Gaspar Yanga
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The heritage of Africans in Mexico after Christopher Columbus is a topic that has been overlooked in the history books of the Americas. One of...
Annie Turnbo Malone
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Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone, born on August 9, 1869, in Metropolis, Illinois, was a pioneering African American entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist who revolutionized the beauty...
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, being led to his cell after his arrest in London, 1968
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The FBI put him in a bulletproof vest, they weren’t going to take any chances after Lee Harvey Oswald. Martin Luther King was shot and...
George Lincoln Rockwell and members of the American Nazi Party attend a Nation of Islam summit, 1961
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American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell, flanked by two members of the party, listening to Malcolm X’s speech at Black Muslims meeting held at...
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930
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On a hot August night in 1930, a crowd gathered in front of an Indiana jail — men, women, and children shouting and jeering, demanding...
A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992
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The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a KKK hood and robe....
Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960
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On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans...