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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here. Who are they: Nelson Rolihlahla...
Raphael G. Warnock (1969- ) [Children’s Edition]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: U.S. Senator...
Wade Hampton (?-1917)
Wade Hampton was a Wyoming lynching victim. He was taken from the Rock Springs city jail by three men who...
Judy Lenteen Pace (1942- )
Judy Pace was born on June 15, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. Her father was an airplane mechanic and her mother...
Onie Burnett Granville (1916-1998)
Visionary businessman Onie Burnett Granville, a Los Angeles, California Realtor, founded two black-owned and operated state-chartered banks in the 1960s, the Bank of Finance in Los...
Erica Gwen-Elise Snipes Garner (1990-2017)
Erica Garner was an activist, writer, and leader in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Garner was thrust into a life of activism...
British Corps of Colonial Marines (1808-1810, 1814-1816)
During the first two decades of the 19th Century, escaped American slaves formed a military cadre that would eventually be called...
(1963) Haile Selassie, “Towards African Unity”
On May 25, 1963 the Organization for African Unity (OAU) was established with a permanent headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937- )
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born on June 13, 1937 in Washington, D.C. to parents Coleman and Vela Holmes. Both her...
