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