Category

Literature

• Benjamin Banneker

  free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)

• Countee Cullen

  American author (1903–1946)

• Duke Ellington

  American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)

• Fannie Lou Hamer

  American civil rights activist (1917–1977)

• Frederick Douglass

  African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

• Ida B. Wells

  American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

• Josephine Baker

  American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

• Langston Hughes

  American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

• Mae Jemison

  American doctor and NASA astronaut

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

• Paul Robeson

  American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

• Rosa Parks

  civil rights activist

• W. E. B. Du Bois

  American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

• Zora Neale Hurston

  African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

• The Abolition Movement

  movement to end slavery in the United States

• The Black Arts Movement

  African American–led art movement, active between the 1960s and 1970s

• The Harlem Renaissance

  African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s

• The Négritude Movement

  cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite

• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

  preserves the Washington, D.C. home and estate of Frederick Douglass

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  research library in Manhattan, New York, USA