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Bill Pickett (1870-1932)
Bill Pickett, “the Dusky Demon,” was of Indian/Black descent, Texas-born and seemingly destined for the saddle. At birth, he was...
Isaiah Dorman (1832-1876)
Isaiah Dorman was born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1832 although the precise date of his birth is unknown. The date...
James Pierson Beckwourth (c. 1805 – 1866)
If any man of any color attained the ranks of legendary in the American West, it was James Beckwourth (also:...
Mary Fields (1832-1914)
Born enslaved in Tennessee, this girl came west with Ursuline nuns after being freed. Not known for her quiet temperament,...
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew (“Stepin Fetchit”) Perry (1902-1985)
Reviled by Langston Hughes and many others for his film and stage portrayals of black characters as “lazy, shuffling, no-account...
Lincoln Motion Picture Company
African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th...
Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)
Oscar Micheaux was the quintessential self-made man. Novelist, film-maker and relentless self-promoter, Micheaux was born on a farm near Murphysboro,...
Juan Francisco Reyes Reyes (ca. 1749-ca. 1800)
California’s 18th Century history is embedded with that of settlers from many racial and cultural groups. Terms such as mestizos,...