Ona Judge (c.1773—February 25, 1848), known as Ona Judge Staines after marriage, was a light-skinned, heavily freckled and slight of build slave on George Washington’s plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Her mother, Betty, was an enslaved […]
Ruth Simmons (July 3, 1945) became the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution when she was elected as the 18th president of Brown University. The youngest of 12 children born to sharecropper parents […]
James Forten (September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842) was an African-American abolitionist and wealthy businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born free in the city, he became a sailmaker after the American Revolutionary War. As a boy, […]
Frances Cress Welsing (born Frances Luella Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. The second of three girls, Welsing was born into a family that had already produced two […]
David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was a courageous activist, leader, and writer. Born free, his mother was free and his father was a slave, David Walker put his life on the line […]
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1852) Mary Ellen Pleasant was born on Aug. 19, 1814 in Virginia and spent her early years in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She worked as a bond servant to the Hussey family, an abolitionist […]
On September 14, 2016 Dr. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the Librarian of Congress. This marked the moment in history when the first African American and first woman held the position since the creation […]
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