Black History Figures

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, (1817 -1895) Abolitionist, author, and major African American leader, later known as “The Father of the Civil Rights […]

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, (1856 -1915) College president and national leader who emphasized education, hard work, and economic development. In 1940 […]

DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS, (1856 -1931) was a surgeon who performed the first successful heart surgery at Chicago Provident Hospital in […]

W.E.B Du BOIS, (1868 -1963) Civil rights leader, scholar, co-founder of the NAACP, and the chief organizer of the First […]

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE, (1875 -1955) was a college president, civil rights leader, adviser to presidents, and member of President Roosevelt’s […]

JACK JOHNSON, (1878 -1946) First African American heavyweight champion who won the title in 1908 and became an international athletic […]