Ann Lane Petry 1908-1997 Ann Lane Petry’s literacy talent exposed readers to issues of oppression and prejudice facing female black Americans. She was...
Charles Hamilton Houston 1895-1950 Charles Hamilton Houston was an attorney, a professor, and a law school dean. He devised and implemented the legal...
Charles Mingus 1922-1979 Charles Mingus fused musical styles drawn from classical, swing, bop, Latin, and avant-garde genres to develop a wholly original...
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 – 1906 Once called the “poet Laureate of the Negro Race,” and praised as “the first American Negro poet...
Ray Charles 1930-2004 Ray Charles was a multitalented musician who artfully combined disparate musical traditions into his own pioneering genre. He overcame...
