Biographies

Period II: Emancipation to Era of the Depression

Aaron Bradley--- Reconstruction Politician

Alain Locke--- Writer and Educator

Albert Comstock Hamlin--- Early Republican Political Figure and Legislator

Alexander Crummell---- 1819-1898. Clergyman, Activist, Pan-Africanist [New York]

Alonzo Clifton McClennan---- Physician and Professional Leader [Howard University]

Arna Bontemps---- Writer of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton--- Great "Exoduster" champion

Benjamin Tanner---- AME Bishop

Bill Pickett--- Rodeo Entertainer

Booker T. Washington--- Educator and Race Leader

Buster Bailey--- Jazz Musician

Carter G. Woodson--- Historian, Sociologist, and Founder of Black History Week

Charles Henry Turner--- Intellect and Activist

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins (Brown)--- Teacher

Countee Cullen--- Poet and Playwright

Daniel Alexander Payne--- Minister and Educator [South Carolina]

Edward Douglass White--- Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court/Racist

Eva Del Vakia Bowles--- Secretary for the African-American division of the Young Women’s Christian Association

Frances Elliott Davis--- Public Health Nurse, Nurse-Educator, and Community Advocate

George Henry White--- Lawyer and Member of Congress [the last (in 1901) African American for over a generation]

George Lewis Ruffin---- Lawyer and Municipal Judge

George Suttles--- First Baseman and Baseball Manager

Hallie Quinn Brown--- Educator, Elocutionist, Entertainer

Henry Alexander Hunt--- Educator and Government Official [Georgia]

Henry McDonald--- Professional Football Player [New York]

Henry Plummer Cheatham--- Congressman and Public Official [North Carolina]

Isaac Murphy--- Jockey

Jack Haverly--- Minstrel Showman.

James Luck Alcorn--- Governor of Mississippi, U.S. Senator, Advocate for Black Rights

James Healy--- Catholic Bishop

James Carroll Napier--- Politician, Attorney, Businessman [Nashville]

James Thomas Rapier--- Congressman from Alabama

James Reese Europe--- WWI Hellfighter. Musician

Jesse Fuller--- A One-Man-Band

John Lewis Waller--- Politician and Foreign Service Officer [Madagascar]

John R. Lynch--- Mississippi Reconstruction Congressman

Joseph Newsome--- Lawyer and Editor

Laura Matilda Towne--- Sea Islands Educator

Lewis Adams--- Tuskegee’s Real Founder

Lewis Latimer--- Thomas Alva Edison Pioneer

Lightfoot Solomon Michaux--- Radio Evangelist

Luckey Roberts--- Ragtime, Theatrical, and Jazz Pianist and Composer

Lugenia D. Burns Hope--- Civic Leader

Mark Metthews--- The Last Buffalo Soldier

Monroe Work--- Sociologist, Tuskegee

Moses Fleetwood Walker--- Baseball Player and Writer

Nannie Burroughs--- School Founder

Oscar James Dunn--- Reconstruction Politician, Lt. Governor [Louisiana]

Oscar McKinley Charleston--- Baseball Player and Manager

Oscar Micheaux--- Film Producer

Ralph Brock--- The Nation's First African American Forester

Ralph Ellison--- Writer

Relliford Stillman Smith-- Physician and Professional Mentor

Richard Berry Harrison--- Actor

Robert S. Abbott--- Chicago Defender Journalist

T. Thomas Fortune--- Editor [New York Age] and Activist

Toby Hardwick--- Jazz Alto Saxophonist

Turkey Stearns--- Baseball Great

Toussaint Tourgee Tildon--- Physician and Educator

Turkey Stearns--- Negro League Baseball

Una Mae Carlisle--- Jazz performer

W.E.B. DuBois--- The Great Intellect and Spokesman for Africa and African-Americans

William Hannibal Thomas---- [Racist] Clergyman, Author

William Joseph Seymour---- Pentecostal Minister

William Washington Browne--- Fraternal Society Leader and Banker