Black History Figures

PAUL ROBESON, (1898 -1976) Singer, actor, and civil rights activist who presented a powerful stage image and became an international […]

CHARLES R. DREW, (1904 -1950) was a surgeon who pioneered the development of blood plasma preservation, blood storage, and blood […]

RALPH J. BUNCHE (1904 -1971) was a political scientist and the first African American to win a Nobel Prize in […]

FANNIE LOU HAMER, (1917 -1977) From the life of a sharecropper to a civil rights leader and voting rights activist […]

JACKIE ROBINSON, (1919 -1972) was a renowned baseball star who broke the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers […]

MALCOLM X, (1925 -1965) Controversial Muslim leader and human rights activist for African Americans’ rights. Malcolm X is honored on […]