Charles Richard Drew was an African American physician who developed ways to process and store
Author: All Things Black
A free Black man who owned a farm near Baltimore, Benjamin Banneker was largely self-educated
Inventor Frederick McKinley Jones pioneered portable refrigeration, which earned him the nickname “King of Cool.”
Nat Turner was an enslaved person who became a preacher and made history as the
Granville T. Woods, born to free African Americans, held various engineering and industrial jobs before
Led by Arkansas NAACP president Daisy Gaston Bates, nine Black students took on the task of
Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus
Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867. Her parents, Owen and