Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, born in 1850 in Syracuse, New York, was a remarkable African American woman who made significant contributions to education and medicine...
Henry Binga Dismond, a star athlete, medical device inventor, pioneering physician, and poet, was born on December 27, 1891, in Richmond, Virginia to Dr. Samuel...
Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes was an African-American physician and civil rights activist. He was born on September 8, 1873, in Washington County, Texas, and died...
George Albert Flippin was born on February 16, 1878, in Port Clinton, Ohio, to parents who had escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad. When he...
Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American astronaut who was born on September 27, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an accomplished engineer and pilot who...
Warren Elliot Henry was born in Evergreen, Alabama, on a peanut farm where George Washington Carver lived and did research during the summer months. Both...
Aerospace engineer Wesley L. Harris was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 29, 1941. His parents, William Harris and Rosa Harris worked in Richmond’s tobacco...
Mary Logan Reddick was a neuroembryologist and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College. Reddick was born on December 31, 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia....
Alyce Chenault Gullattee, M.D., was a prominent Howard University Hospital psychiatrist, civil rights activist, member of Union Temple Baptist Church, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority...