Zach Schrempp
Zach Schrempp is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is studying history and civil engineering.
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James Forman (1928-2005)
Civil rights leader and political activist James Forman was an instrumental leader in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), sending...
Fredrick L. McGhee (1861-1912)
Fredrick McGhee, a founding member of the Niagara Movement, was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1861. He was freed...
George Jackson (1941-1971)
Author George Jackson is best known for his memoir Soledad Brother, containing the letters that he wrote from prison between...
Harold Cruse (1916-2005)
Harold Cruse, a leading intellectual in the second half of the 20th Century, was born in 1916 in Petersburg, Virginia....
J. Max Bond Sr. (1902-1991)
J. Max Bond, Sr., an educator who worked in the United States and abroad, was born in Nashville, Tennessee in...
Barrington Irving (1983- )
Barrington Irving is the first African American to fly solo around the world and, as of 2010, the youngest person...
C.R. Patterson & Sons Company (1893-1939)
The C.R. Patterson & Sons Company was a carriage building firm, and the first African American-owned automobile manufacturer. The company...
Lonnie Johnson (1949- )
Lonnie George Johnson, most famous for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, was born on October 6, 1949, in Mobile,...
Theophilus Thompson (1855-?)
Theophilus Augustus Thompson was one of the first notable African American chess players. Thompson was born into slavery in Frederick,...
Maurice Ashley (1966- )
Maurice Ashley, the first African American chess grandmaster, was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on March 6, 1966. At age...
