People

Phyllis Wheatley

1771- 1774

• 💡 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

• 💡 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley

• 💡 https://www.poemhunter.com/phillis-wheatley/biography/

• 🎥 https://vimeo.com/336865364

Hercules Posey

1748 - 1812

• 💡 https://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/slaves/hercules.php

• 💡 https://stories.zagat.com/posts/uncovering-the-hidden-life-of-hercules-posey-george-washingtons-enslaved-cook

• 💡 https://apnews.com/article/cda1df8694ad406eaed22e4cd19ce2fc

• 💡 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/18/463488364/amid-controversy-scholastic-pulls-picture-book-about-washingtons-slave

• 🎥 https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/hercules/

Sojourner Truth

1797- 1883

• 💡 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth

• 💡 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0VqwNjbDKk

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAQDyUmbJo&t=204s

Anna Murray Douglass

1813- 1882

• 💡 https://www.aaihs.org/on-the-life-of-black-abolitionist-anna-murray-douglass/

• 💡 https://www.lisc.org/our-stories/story/anna-murray-douglass-abolitionist-philanthropist-mother/

• 💡 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

• 💡 http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/apr/08/anna-murray-douglass-abolitionist-deserving-wider-/?fbclid=IwAR01BywXZrELNITkGVKg-_mIf0tnFc4D45h2R7r5zJJ2r89CFuE6ilzvNrM

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesXMT3qcUk&t=116s

John Brown

1800 - 1859

• 💡 https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/exploring-images-of-john-brown

• 💡 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/brown-missouri-raid/

• 💡 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-browns-day-of-reckoning-139165084/

• 💡 https://www.johnbrownwaxmuseum.com/index.htm

• 💡 https://kidadl.com/articles/best-john-brown-quotes-from-the-american-abolitionist-leader

• 💡 https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2019/01/14/abolitionist-owen-browns-altadena-grave-to-be-preserved-in-compromise-with-la-vina-developer/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxvwi-M3LTM

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Hyp-h14SM&t=10s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svthG26S8QQ&t=2898s

Charles Sumner

1811 - 1874

• 💡 https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm

• 💡 https://www.history.com/news/charles-sumner-caning-cilley-duel-congressional-violence

• 💡 https://exhibits.tufts.edu/spotlight/john-brown-tufts/about/charles-sumner

• 💡 https://blackhistory.harpweek.com/4Reconstruction/1218MrSumnersCivilRightBill.htm

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSuSGde5cw

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuT3kBw17o0

Robert Smalls

1839 - 1915

• 💡 https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/which-slave-sailed-himself-to-freedom/

• 💡 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thrilling-tale-how-robert-smalls-heroically-sailed-stolen-confederate-ship-freedom-180963689/

• 💡 https://www.nps.gov/people/robert-smalls.htm

• 💡 https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/21764

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5xTWh4tbY&t=239s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T7ksyhUkw

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yq23sxakY

StageCoach Mary Fields

1832 - 1914

• 💡 https://www.history.com/news/meet-stagecoach-mary-the-daring-black-pioneer-who-protected-wild-west-stagecoaches

• 💡 https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields

• 💡 http://montanawomenshistory.org/the-life-and-legend-of-mary-fields/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgUiWQr1Pzs

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhIwpxrtFk&t=1171s

Ida B. Wells

1862 - 1931

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells

• 💡 http://fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/2019/03/07/remembering-wells-the-life-of-investigative-journalist-and-civil-rights-activist-ida-b-wells/

• 💡 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett

• 💡 https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/02/ida-b-wells-and-the-activism-of-investigative-journalism/

• 💡 https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/defender.html

• 💡 https://news.wttw.com/2020/05/05/ida-b-wells-awarded-posthumous-pulitzer-outstanding-and-courageous-reporting

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eH6TNP72E&t=520s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fygjGXnaV9w&t=227s

Maggie Lena Walker

1864- 1934

• 💡 https://wednesdayswomen.com/americas-first-female-bank-president-maggie-lena-walker/#:~:text=In%201903%20in%20Richmond,history%20of%20the%20United%20States.

• 💡 https://www.nps.gov/mawa/learn/historyculture/maggie-lena-walker.htm

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3CexPZXEk&t=759s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbLgtvK3HmM

Madame CJ Walker

1867 - 1919

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/inventor/madam-cj-walker

• 💡 https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/madam-walker/

• 💡 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/madame-c-j-walker

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrpVozNIHds&t=39s

Coach Dick Harlow

1889 - 1962

• 💡 https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1652

• 💡 https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/retired-football-coach-richard-harlow-demonstrates-why-he-news-photo/3346985

• 💡 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/05/sports/backtalk-another-barrier-that-fell-50-years-ago-is-recalled.html

• 💡 https://theundefeated.com/features/harvards-chester-pierce-was-trailblazer-in-his-field-and-on-the-field/

• 💡 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.3.0341?journalCode=jaah

• 💡 https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2016.11a27

• 🎥 https://www.amazon.com/Breeding-Pennsylvania-Richard-Cresson-Harlow/dp/1361228393

Bessie Coleman

1892 - 1926

• 💡 http://www.bessiecoleman.org/bio-bessie-coleman.php

• 💡 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flygirls-bessie-coleman/

• 💡 https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/bessie-coleman-barnstorming-through-barriers

• 💡 https://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/history/women-in-aviation/bessie-coleman.html

• 💡 https://www.nps.gov/tuai/and-there-were-women.htm

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYYy-dT4498&t=6s

Fredi Washington

1903 - 1994

• 💡 https://www.history.com/news/fredi-washington-black-actress-hollywood-jim-crow-era

• 💡 https://broadcast41.uoregon.edu/biography/washington-fredi

• 💡 https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Paper29116.html

• 💡 https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/single-post/2018/07/02/fredi-washington-and-her-defining-role-in-imitation-of-life

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIEPmLFPBk

Josephine Baker

1906 - 1975

• 💡 https://medium.com/how-americans-in-paris-changed-the-world/josephine-baker-international-superstar-sexual-rebel-civil-rights-crusader-rainbow-tribe-mom-f797f1542bc5

• 💡 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-the-flickering-forgotten-past-african-americans-silent-film-180961034/

• 💡 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/josephine-baker

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/performer/josephine-baker

• 💡 https://us.france.fr/en/dordogne-valley/article/josephine-baker-chateau-des-milandes

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggb_wGTvZoU&t=1681s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MWbozrLNc

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmw5eGh888Y

Juliet Hampton Morgan

1914 - 1957

• 💡 https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/juliette-hampton-morgan-a-white-woman-who-understood

• 💡 https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/02/21/montgomery-librarian-juliette-morgan-remembered-civil-rights-stand/355705002/

• 💡 https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/general/JH_primary_docs.pdf

• 💡 https://www.herbwalker.com/obituary/Juliette-Morgan

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVDLdyoWCVg

Ava Gardner

1922 - 1990

• 💡 https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/style/ava-gardner-style-a4498291.html

• 💡 https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/post/celebrating-black-history-month-at-the-ava-gardner-museum/

• 💡 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/lena-horne-biography-old-hollywood

• 💡 https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/post/a-legacy-of-giving-the-ava-gardner-trust/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMEMcMOgLzA

Violet Luizzo

1925 - 1965

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/activist/viola-gregg-liuzzo

• 💡 https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=23965

• 💡 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/15/a-white-mother-went-to-alabama-to-fight-for-civil-rights-the-klan-killed-her-for-it/

• 💡 https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/liuzzo-viola-0

• 💡 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/07/23/statue-civil-rights-icon-viola-liuzzo-dedicated-detroit-park/1806238001/

• 💡 https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-26-1965-statement-arrests-violo-liuzzo-murder

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6uQBDAr_U

• 🎥 https://www.amazon.com/Home-Brave-Stockard-Channing/dp/B00CMUU100

Ruth Bader Ginsburgh

1933 - 2020

• 💡 https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/ruth-bader-ginsburg

• 💡 https://parade.com/1090347/jessicasager/ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes/

• 💡 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/18/i-dissent-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-most-memorable-opinions/2661426002/

• 💡 https://www.aclu.org/other/tribute-legacy-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-wrp-staff

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI6U0uEWg5U&t=9s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JfOCNIv9o&t=1120s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYLf6tkeN4

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnv5GuLMJYE

Mildred Loving

1939 - 2008

• 💡 https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2017/mar/29/the-lovings-in-pictures

• 💡 https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/11/02/virginia-case-legalized-interracial-marriage-the-loving-story/

• 💡 https://apnews.com/article/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-courts-supreme-courts-a408f20638ef4f35bed71f5a73fadfbe

• 💡 https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/mildred-loving-endorses-marriage-equality-for-same-sex-couples/

• 💡 https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/924747746/bernard-cohen-lawyer-who-argued-loving-v-virginia-case-dies-at-86

• 🎥 https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Story-Mildred/dp/B00CKXBBEE

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RseBL4eC0ok

Marvin Gaye

1939 - 1984

• 💡 https://theconversation.com/marvin-gayes-1971-whats-going-on-remains-unanswered-today-88732

• 💡 http://www.myblackhistory.net/Marvin_Gaye.htm

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/musician/marvin-gaye

• 💡 https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/entertainment/whats-going-on-anniversary/index.html

• 💡 https://classic.motown.com/artist/marvin-gaye/

• 💡 https://www.essence.com/celebrity/10-surprising-facts-about-marvin-gaye/#149116

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml93wcrmo1A

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZ5H6UBfTw

John Lewis

1940 - 2020

• 💡 https://www.humanityinaction.org/fellowship-john-lewis/about-john-lewis/

• 💡 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/john-lewis-essay-new-york-times/index.html

• 💡 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/

• 💡 https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=2

• 💡 https://www.johnlewisgoodtrouble.com/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE0a5-p9pg&t=1s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6uQBDAr_U

Wilma Rudolph

1940 - 1954

• 💡 https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/wilma-rudolph-worlds-fastest-woman/

• 💡 https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016444.html

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f7Q61tzKe0

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akj1XSw7A4&t=644s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoH5f-YxneM&t=1181s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnr0hu1skVY

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnr0hu1skVY

Joan Tarika Lewis

1950 -

• 💡 https://madamenoire.com/1133994/women-of-the-black-panther-party-joan-tarika-lewis/

• 💡 https://afropunk.com/2017/02/hidden-figures-joan-tarika-lewis-the-first-woman-to-join-the-black-panther-party/

• 💡 https://www.vibe.com/features/editorial/impact-of-black-panther-women-463001/

• 💡 https://www.bayyoutharts.org/?page_id=73

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxwTABwtnU

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXain1Smko

Sylvia Rivera

1951 - 2002

• 💡 https://womenatthecenter.nyhistory.org/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries/

• 💡 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/forgotten-latina-trailblazer-lgbt-activist-sylvia-rivera-n438586

• 💡 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera

• 💡 https://www.nps.gov/people/marsha-p-johnson.htm

• 💡 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/forgotten-latina-trailblazer-lgbt-activist-sylvia-rivera-n438586

• 💡 https://srlp.org/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIbAVS-cDBs&t=687s

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADsuuPd79E

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiGbpbcHA9s

Oprah Winfrey

1954 -

• 💡 https://achievement.org/achiever/oprah-winfrey/

• 💡 https://www.biography.com/media-figure/oprah-winfrey

• 💡 https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/05/us/oprah-winfrey-fast-facts/index.html

• 💡 https://www.goalcast.com/2016/09/28/top-20-inspiring-oprah-winfrey-quotes-that-will-empower-you/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1qd0NPINA

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCQ-V7c7Bc

DJ Kool Herc

1955 -

• 💡 https://history.hiphop/dj-kool-herc-clive-campbell/

• 💡 https://www.backyardopera.com/home-1/2020/6/10/history-dj-kool-herc-invents-hip-hop-at-1520-sedgwick-avenue

• 💡 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/13/dj-kool-herc-block-party

• 💡 http://www.workforcehousinggroup.com/spotlight--1520-sedgwick-ave.html

• 💡 https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/30470282/breakdancing-gets-olympic-status-debut-paris-games-2024

• 📷 https://earthlymission.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/break-dance-moves-chart-1.jpg

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwml-F7zKQ

Rakim

1968 -

• 💡 https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/642400564/rakim-reflects-on-his-life-in-hip-hop-and-what-happened-with-eric-b

• 💡 https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/rakim-we-need-a-few-more-kanyes/256243/

• 💡 https://www.salon.com/2019/11/02/rap-legend-rakim-opens-up-about-finding-his-unique-intellectual-sound-and-transforming-hip-hop/

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYLiC2ihoc

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ose7vqrqyss

• 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPfIIn5V_LQ

Others to research further:

• https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g25954127/african-american-historical-figures/

• https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/02/us/little-known-black-history-figures/

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354

• Nat Turner: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner

• William Lloyd Garrison: https://www.nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org/william-lloyd-garrison.html

• Robert Abbot: https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/remembering-chicago-defender-print-edition-1905-2019

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