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Joshua Johnston (ca. 1763-1832)
Joshua Johnston, also known as Joshua Johnson, was a portraitist active in Baltimore, Maryland, between 1790 and 1825, and the...
Briton Hammon (?-?)
Briton Hammon, whose birth and death dates are unknown, was the author of A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and...
Georgia Infirmary (1832- )
The Georgia Infirmary was the first hospital for African Americans built in the United States. Chartered on December 24, 1832...
The True Reformers Bank (1888-1910)
The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first bank owned...
Benjamin Pelham (1862-1948)
Benjamin Pelham was a powerful Detroit politician and journalist. He was the Wayne County accountant from 1906 until 1942 and...
Cecil Moore (1915-1979)
Cecil Bassett Moore was a lawyer, civil rights activist and leader of the Philadelphia National Association for the Advancement of...
American League of Colored Laborers (1850-?)
The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was the first black American labor union. It was formed in New York...
Levi Watkins Jr. (1944-2015)
Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. was a cardiac surgeon who, in 1980, performed the first implantation of an automatic defibrillator into...
Maxwell Curtis Stanford Jr. (a.k.a. Muhammad Ahmad) (1941- )
Maxwell Curtis Stanford, Jr., known since 1970 as Muhammad Ahmad, is a civil rights activist and was a founder of...
John Churchville (1941- )
John Elliott Churchville is a civil rights activist and black nationalist who founded Philadelphia’s Freedom Library Community Project, which would...