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Claudius William Rice (ca. 1892-1973)
Claudius W. Rice was a political activist and labor leader in Houston, Texas from the 1920s through the 1940s. He...
Boston King (c. 1760-1802)
Boston King, one of the pioneer settlers of Sierra Leone, was born enslaved on the Richard Waring plantation near Charleston,...
Barber-Scotia College (1867-)
Barber-Scotia College is a coed liberal arts school founded by the Presbyterian Church in July 1867 by Reverend Luke Dorland...
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Yusef Komunyakaa was born James Willie Brown, Jr., in 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a segregated...
Lembhard Goldstone Howell (1936- )
Lembhard G. Howell is a prominent Seattle attorney practicing in Seattle since 1966. Howell’s career has been dedicated to seeking...
George W. Gibbs Jr. (1916-2000)
George W. Gibbs, Jr. was the first person of African descent to set foot on Antarctica (the South Pole). He was...
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935-1967)
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American selected to be an astronaut. He was also a test pilot...
Dar es Salaam (1857- )
Dar es Salaam is the largest city in Tanzania. With its location on the Indian Ocean coast, separated from the...