Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (1808–1860) was an aspiring white actor from New York who gained notoriety in the 1830s when he delivered a performance in blackface before a theater audience in Pit...

Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946) was a North Carolina Baptist minister, a statesman, a playwright, and an author best known for his Trilogy of Reconstruction. The series of best-selling novels...

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was an African-American educator, writer, orator, and prominent leader of the African-American community. Washington grew up a slave on a plantation in Virginia,...

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an African-American writer, historian, educator, and civil rights activist. During his life, Du Bois published thousands of articles, essays, and books, most of the...

John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (1878–1946) was an African-American boxer and the first Black athlete to earn the title of Heavyweight Champion of the World, which he held from 1908 to 1915. He's also...