A
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Aaron,
Hank
"Hammerin" Hank
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Anderson,
Marian
Opera star.
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African
American Contributors
-
African-American
Biographies
|
Anderson,
Marian
Famous opera
singer.
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African
American Women -
collections from Duke University
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Angelou,
Maya
- famous poet and
writer.
|
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African
Americans in History
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Angelou,
Maya
- Poet and Writer
|
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Ailey,
Alvin - American Balet
Dancer.
|
Angelou,
Maya
- Writer and Poet
|
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Ailey,
Alvin - Dancer
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Armstrong,
Louis - a cultural
legacy.
|
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Ailey,
Alvin -
Founder of the American Dance
Theater
|
Armstrong,
Louis
- Satchmo
Biography.
|
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Aldridge,
Ira - Shakespearean
Actor
|
Armstrong,
Louis - biography of the
jazz performer also known as Satchmo.
|
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Aldridge,
Ira - Actor
|
Armstrong,
Louis-
PBS Jazz Kids
Biography
|
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Aldridge,
Ira
- Great Actor
|
Ashe,
Arthur
- Great tennis
player.
|
|
Ali,
Muhammad
"The Greatest"
|
Ashe,
Arthur
- Tennis Star.
|
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Ali,
Muhammad
Fly like a butterfly, Sting
like a bee.
|
Ashe,
Arthur-
Tennis Great
|
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Ali,
Muhammad
Champion Boxer.
|
Attucks,
Crispus -
Boston Massacre
Hero.
|
|
Ali,
Muhammad
The Making of a
Champ.
|
Attucks,
Crispus - Murder Trial
Records.
|
|
Allen,
Richard - Religious
leader
|
Attucks,
Crispus
- Biography.
|
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Allen,
Richard
- Founded the (AME)
Church
|
Attucks,
Crispus
- Biography.
|
|
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B
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Bailey,
Pearl
- entertainer
|
Bethune,
Mary McLeod - Gifted and
influential African American woman.
|
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Baldwin,
James-
Novelist.
|
Biographies
of Famous African Americans
|
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Baldwin,
James -
Writer.
|
Black
Cowboys, Part I
|
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Baker,
Josephine
|
Black
Cowboys, Part II
|
|
Baker,
Josephine - (1906 - 1975)
Singer.
|
Black
Inventors and their
Inventions
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin
- biography of this man of
science
|
Bluford,
Dr. Guion S., Jr.,
Picture.
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin - Astronomer and
Mathematician
|
Bluford,
Dr. Guion S., Jr. - First
Black Astronaut.
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin
- Famous
mathematician.
|
Bluford,
Dr. Guion S., Jr. - An
American astronaut.
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin
- a famous
mathematician.
|
Bontemps,
Arna -
Writer
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin -
Inventor and
Scientist.
|
Bontemps,
Arnaud Wendell
- Poet and
Author.
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin
Mathematician
|
Bridges,
Ruby
- integrated Louisana
Public Schools
|
|
Banneker,
Benjamin
- One of America's greatest
astronomers.
|
Bridges,
Ruby - wanted a better
education.
|
|
Basie,
William "Count"-Stamp on
Black History
|
Bridges,
Ruby -
Slideshow
|
|
Basie,
William "Count" -
Music Great
|
Brooks,
Gwendolyn
- Illinois Poet
Laureate
|
|
Beckwourth,
Jim,
1726-1866
-
Biography
|
- Brooks,
Gwendolyn - Poet
.
|
|
Beckwourth,
James P.
-Black Mountain
Man.
|
Brooks,
Gwendolyn - Famous
Poet.
|
|
Berry,
Chuck
- Rock & Roll
Legend.
|
Brown,
James -
"I feel good!"
|
|
Berry,
Chuck
- Rock & Roll
Legend.
|
Bunche,
Ralph Johnson
-
Statesman.
|
|
Bethune,
Mary McLeod -Teacher and
college founder.
|
Bunch,
Ralph Johnson
Nobel Prize
Winner
|
C
|
Campanella,
Roy -
Baseball great.
|
Chisholm,
Shirley-
Congresswoman.
|
|
Carney,
William H.
- First Black Medal of
Honor Winner
|
Chisholm,
Shirley Anita - United
States Representative.
|
|
Carruthers,
Dr. George
-Astrophysist
|
Cole,
Nat "
King"-
Stamp on Black History
|
|
Carruthers,
Dr. George -
Astronomer
|
Cole,
Nat "King"
- Popular Singer
|
|
Carson,
Dr. Benjamin -
Famous Surgeon
|
Coleman,
Bessie -
Early Aviator.
|
|
Carson,
Dr. Benjamin S. -
Neurosurgeon
|
Coleman,
Bessie - stamp on
history
|
|
Carver,
George Washington
Images
|
Coleman,
Bessie- First Licensed
Black Woman Pilot in the World.
|
|
Carver,
George Washington National
Monument
|
Coleman,
Bessie
- Aviatrix.
|
|
Carver,
George Washington
-developed crop-rotation
methods.
|
Coleman,
Bessie
- World's first
African-American woman pilot.
|
|
Carver,
George Washington
- Biography
|
Collin,
Marva - Teacher
|
|
Carver,
George Washington: -Stamp
on Black History
|
Coltrane,
John
- Jazz Musician
|
|
Cary,
Mary Ann Shadd
-
First African American Woman
Newspaper
Editor
|
Coltrane,
John
-
Stamp on Black History
|
|
Charles,
Ray - "Tell me What'd I
Say"
|
Coltrane,
John
- Musician
|
|
Charles,
Ray
-
Biography
|
Cuffe,
Paul
- Merchant,
Abolitionist
|
|
Chisholm,
Shirley -Representative
from New York.
|
Cullen,
Countee- Harlem
RennisanceWriter
|
D
|
Davis,
General Benjamin O.,
Jr.
Military
Hero
|
Drew,
Dr. Charles
Richard -
Physician and
Surgeon
|
|
Davis,
General Benjamin O., Jr.
War
Hero
|
Drew,
Dr. Charles Richard
-
Invented blood
banking.
|
|
Davis,
Sammy, Jr.
Entertainer.
|
Drew,
Dr. Charles
Richard -
Inventor
|
|
Davis,
Dr. William Allison
- Anthropologist
|
DuBois,
W.E.B.
- Educator
|
|
Devers,
Gail - Olympic
Champion.
|
DuBois,
W.E.B.
- writer and educator.
|
|
Douglass,
Frederick:
Stamp on Black
History
|
Dunbar,
Paul Laurence
- Poet.
|
|
Douglass,
Frederick - brief
biography.
|
Dunbar,
Paul Lawrence -
Website
|
|
Douglass,
Frederick - Great
speaker
|
Dunbar,
Paul Laurence
-
African American
poet.
|
|
Douglass,
Frederick -
Abolitionist.
|
Dunbar,
Paul Lawrence - Stamp on
History
|
|
Dove,
Rita
- Former Poet
Laureate of the U. S.
|
du
Sable, Jean Baptiste
Point -
Portrait and
biography.
|
|
Drew,
Dr. Charles Richard
- developed the blood
bank.
|
du
Sable, Jean Baptiste Point
Chicago's
founder.
|
|
Drew,
Dr. Charles
Richard
- Blood Bank
Inventor
|
du
Sable, Jean Baptiste Point
Chicago's first
settler.
|
E
|
Edelman,
Marian Wright -
Children's Advocate
|
Ellington,
(Duke) Edward K.
- Biography, works list,
and more.
|
|
Ellison,
Ralph
- an American writer and
educator
|
Ellington,
Duke: Stamp on Black History
|
|
Ellison,
Ralph
- Biography.
|
Erving,
Julius - Dr J.(Basketball
Great)
|
|
Ellington,
Duke
Biography
|
Evers,
Medgar -
Civil rights leader.
|
|
Ellington,
Duke
Biography
|
|
F
|
Faces
of Science: African Americans
in the Sciences
|
Fitzgerald,
Ella -
Jazz Singer.
|
|
Farrakhan
, Louis
- Nation of Islam
Leader.
|
Fitzgerald,
Ella -
Entertainer.
|
|
Farrakhan,
Louis
Leader of the Nation of
Islam
|
Flipper,
Henry Ossian- First Black
West Point Graduate
|
|
Fields,
Mary
:
Stagecoach
Mary - let little stand in
her way
|
Flipper,
Henry O. - West Point
Pioneer
|
|
Fields,
Mary Ex-Slave
- First woman to have a
mail route.
|
Forten,
Charlotte - Teacher,
writer.
|
|
Fitzgerald,
Ella -
Singer.
|
Forten,
James -
Entrepreneur
|
G
|
Garvey,
Marcus
- Black Nationalist
|
Giovanni,
Nikki - Militant
Poet
|
|
Gates,
Henry Louis Jr.-
Educator
|
Goldberg,
Whoopi - Comedian and
actress.
|
|
Gibson,
Althea
- Tennis Star.
|
Goldberg,
Whoopi-Comedian
|
|
Gibson,
Althea
-Tennis Player.
|
Greenfield,
Eloise - Children's
author.
|
|
Gillespie,
Dizzy- Jazz
musician
|
Greenfield,
Eloise -
Writer of Children's
books
|
|
Gillespie,
Dizzy
- Jazz trumpeter.
|
Great
African American Inventors Engineers
|
|
Giovanni,
Nikki - Poet
|
|
H
|
Haley,
Alex - Author of
"Roots"
|
Henson,
Matthew - African American
explorer.
|
|
Hall,
Lloyd Augustus -
Chemist
|
Henson,
Matthew
-(1886-1955) Accompanied
Robert E. Peary to North Pole
|
|
Hall,
Lloyd Augustus - Chemist
and inventor.
|
Henson,
Matthew
- North Pole
explorer.
|
|
Hall,
Prince - Founder of the
olderst African-American social organization .
|
Matthew
Henson's Grave
- Arlington National Cemetery,
Virginia.
|
|
Hamilton,
Virginia - Author of
Children's books.
|
Holiday,
Billie:- Stamp on Black
History
|
|
Hamilton,
Virginia - Writer, Newbery
Award winner.
|
Holiday,
Billie
- (1915? - 1959) Born
:Eleanora Fagan Gough. Jazz Singer.
|
|
Hammer,
Fannie Lou - worked for
equality.
|
Holiday,
Billie
- Singer.
|
|
Hammer,
Fannie Lou - Civil Rights
Worker
|
Horne,
Lena - Jazz Singer,
actress.
|
|
Handy,
W. C.
- Father of the
Blues.
|
Horne,
Lena - Famous
performer
|
|
Handy,
W. C. -
Blues pioneer.
|
Hughes,
Langston
- Poet
|
|
Hansberry,
Lorraine
-African-American
Playwright
|
Hughes,
Langston
:
It's a Hughes Thang!
|
|
Harper,
Frances Ellen Watkins
-
Writer.
|
Hurston,
Zora Neale
- author of "Their Eyes
Were Watching God" (1937).
|
|
Harper,
Frances Ellen Watkins -
Writer.
|
Hurston,
Zora Neale -
Writer
|
|
Hawkins,
Coleman
- Stamp on Black
History
|
Hurston,
Zora Neale
- Writer.
|
|
Hendrix,
Jimi (James)
- Rock Legend
|
Hurston,
Zora Neale
-
links to web sites about Zora Neale Hurston
|
|
Henson,
Matthew Resources
- North Pole
explorer.
|
Hurston,
Zora Neale -
an American
author.
|
|
Henson,
Matthew
-Polar
Explorer.
|
|
J
|
Jackson,
Jesse -
Civil Rights Leader
|
Jones,
Frederick McKinley -
refrigeration expert
|
|
Jackson,
Jesse -
Political Leader
|
Jones,
James Earl - Actor and
voice of Darth Vader
|
|
Jackson,
Jesse Jr.
Congressman
|
Jones,
James Earl
- Kennedy Center Honors
biography
|
|
Jackson,
Mahalia
Gospel
Queen.
|
Joplin,
Scott:-
Stamp on Black History
|
|
Jackson,
Mahalia Gospel
Singer
|
Joplin,
Scott - Ragtime
Composer.
|
|
Jemison,
Dr. Mae- first
African-American woman on the Space Shuttle.
|
Joplin,
Scott
the "King of Ragtime"
music.
|
|
Jemison,
Dr. Mae C. Physician,
Surgeon, Astronaut.
|
Jordan,
Barbara - Senator from
Texas
|
|
James,
General Daniel "Chappie", Jr.
- Famous
general.
|
Jordan,
Barbara - Texas
Senator
|
|
Johnson,
James Weldon - Lift every
voice...
|
Jordan,
Barbara Charline - Senator
from Texas
|
|
Johnson,
James Weldon
- Stamp on Black History
|
Joyner-Kersey,
Jackie -
Olympic Star
|
|
Johnson,
John H.-
Publisher
|
Julian,
Percy Lavon - Scientist
|
|
Johnson,
Robert
- Blues guitarist.
|
Julian,
Percy Lavon -
Inventor
|
|
Johnson,
Robert - Stamp on Black
History
|
Just,
Ernest Everett - pioneered
the study of cell life and human metabolism.
|
|
Jones,
Quincy
- Musician,
producer.
|
Just,
Ernest
Everett:-Zoologist,
Biologist, Physiologist, Research Scientist.
|
|
Jones,
Frederick McKinley -
Inventor
|
|
K
|
King,
B.B.
- Blues Guitarist
|
King,
Martin Luther,
Jr.
- the story of his
life.
|
|
King,
B.B.
Official Website
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. all
about him.
|
|
King,
B.B. King of the
Blues
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.
|
|
King,
Coretta Scott - Martin's
Widow
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.
- from Time Magazine
|
|
King,
Coretta Scott -
Mrs. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.
Day
Celebration
|
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. - Learn
about Dr. King
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. Center
|
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr.
Directory -secondary and
primary documents
|
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. Stamp on
History
|
L
|
Langston,
John Mercer - first Black
American elected to congress.
|
Lewis,
Edmonia-
First African American Woman
Sculptor
|
|
Latimer,
Lewis Howard
-Scientist
|
Lewis,
Edmonia -Pioneer
Sculptor
|
|
Latimer,
Lewis Howard
-Inventor, Engineer.
|
Love,
Nat
- Known as Deadwood
Dick.
|
|
Latimer,
Lewis Howard
- Edison's assistant
|
Love,
Nat
-
Biography of Black
Cowboy
|
|
Latimer,
Lewis Howard - Invented
carbon filement
|
|
M
|
Marsalis,
Wynton - Jazz
Great
|
McNair,
Dr. Ronald - Astronaut.
|
|
Marshall,
Thurgood- Supreme Court
Justice
|
McNair,
Dr. Ronald - was an
American astronaut.
|
|
Marshall,
Thurgood (1908 -
1993) first black Supreme
Court Justice.
|
McRae,
Carmen
-an accomplished
musician.
|
|
Matzelinger,
Jan Ernst
-Inventor of the
automatic shoe lasting machine.
|
Monk,
Thelonious- Stamp on Black
History
|
|
Matzelinger,
Jan -
Inventor
|
Morgan,
Garret A. Invented traffic
signal.
|
|
Matzelinger,
Jan - Inventor
|
Morgan,
Garrett Augustus
-Inventor
|
|
Matzelinger,
Jan - Inventor
|
Morgan,
Garrett A.
- "Father of the Gas
Mask"
|
|
Mays,
Willie -
Interview
|
Morgan,
Garrett A.- Traffic
Engineer
|
|
Mays,
Willie -
Baseball Great!
|
Morrison,
Toni
-
Nobel Prize winning writer.
|
|
McCoy,
Elijah
- Inventor and
Engineer
|
Morrison,
Toni - biography of this
novelist.
|
|
McCoy,
Elijah
-Inventor.
|
Morton,
Jelly Roll- Stamp on Black
History
|
|
McCoy,
Elijah
- invented a device that
allowed machines to be oiled.
|
|
N
O
P
|
Paige,
Leroy Robert
(Satchel) - Baseball
great.
|
Pickett,
Bill 1870-1932
-
Biography and stamp issued in his honor.
|
|
Paige,
Leroy Robert
(Satchel) Negro League
Star.
|
Poor,
Salem -
Stamp on Black History
|
|
Parker,
Charlie
- biography of this 20th
century jazz legend.
|
Powell,Colin
L.- Biography of this
decorated military man.
|
|
Parker,
Charlie - Official
Website
|
Price,
Leontyne -
Opera Star
|
|
Parks,
Rosa Louise McCauley- Civil
Rights Leader
|
Pride,
Charlie- Black Country
Star.
|
|
Parks,
Rosa - The
Tourchbearer
|
Pride,
Charlie- Official
Website
|
|
Parks,
Rosa
- the woman who changed a
nation.
|
Pryor,
Richard -
Comedian, Actor,
Writer
|
|
Pickett,
Bill -
famous black rodeo
star.
|
Pryor,
Richard - Comic
actor.
|
|
|
|
R
|
Rainey,
"Ma"- Stamp on Black
History
|
Robinson,
Smokey -
"Miracle" man
|
|
Randolph,
A. Phillip - Union
Organizer
|
Robinson,
Jackie -
Major League
Pioneer.
|
|
Redding,
Otis - Stamp on Black
History
|
Robinson,
Jackie -
Broke the "Color Barrier" in
Baseball
.
|
|
Renfroe,
Dr. Earl Wiley - Pioneer
Chicago Dentist
|
Robinson,
Jackie- facts about his
life and career as a baseball player.
|
|
Revels,
Hiram Rhodes - First Black
U.S. Senator
|
Ross,
Diana -
"Supreme" performer.
|
|
Rillieux,
Norbert -
Sugar Chemist and
Inventor
|
Rudolph,
Wilma - she overcame polio;
to become an olympic champion.
|
|
Ringgold,
Faith - African-American
author
|
Rudolph,
Wilma - biography of this
track and field legend
|
|
Ringgold,
Faith - Children's author's
Official Website
|
Rush,
Congressman Bobby - United
States Representative.
|
|
Robeson,
Paul
- An
internationally famous actor and singer.
|
Rushing,
Jimmy -
Stamp on Black History
|
|
Robeson,
Paul
-Film star, actor and
singer.
|
|
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