Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. But she was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women’s suffrage supporter. Tubman is one of...
John Hope Franklin: (2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009) John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three...
Carter Godwin Woodson: (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) Carter Godwin Woodson author, was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, the son of former slaves James and Elizae Riddle Woodson. Carter Godwin Woodson author, journalist and the founder of the...
Emperor Haile Selassie: (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) Haile Selassie’s influence on the world is his most enduring legacy. The Emperor established the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963, with a headquarters in Addis Ababa. Haile Selassie was a people...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.:(17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) Marcus Garvey was born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, on 17th August, 1887. After seven years of schooling he worked as a printer. He became an active trade unionist and in 1907 was elected vice president of...
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