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Ida B. Wells Courageous and outspoken, Ida B. Wells has been equaled by few Americans in her fiery denunciation of…
Josiah Thomas Walls was Florida’s first African-American representative to serve in Congress. Walls was born a slave in Winchester, Virginia,…
Harriett Tubman (1821-1913) Leader of the “Underground Railroad” Born in 1821 in Dorchester County, Maryland, one of eleven children, Harriett…
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Orator, Women’s Rights Activist Born Isabella in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, she ran away from…
Mary Church Terrell (1863 – 1954) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became…
Bessie Smith (1894 – 1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith…
Robert Smalls (1839–1915) was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship’s pilot,…
Fred Shuttlesworth (1922 – 2011) civil rights activist, minister As pastor of Birmingham, Alabama’s First Baptist Church, Shuttlesworth organized the…