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African American

Slavery in Thomas Jefferson’s Plantation, Monticello
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
Chappie James: America’s First Black Four-Star General
Eugene Bullard: The First African American Fighter Pilot Flew for France in WWI When America’s Military Wouldn’t Have Him
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
William Henry Johnson, the “Black Death” Whose WWI Heroism Was Overlooked for Nearly a Century
WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters: The African Americans Who Fought for Freedom Abroad While it Was Denied them at Home
Megastar Josephine Baker Risked Her Life for the French Resistance to Spy on the Nazis in WWII
The Original Black Panthers: WWII’s African-American 761st Tank Battalion
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: The Teenager Who Defied Segregation
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Law Enforcement Pioneer Samuel J. Battle, the NYPD’s First Black Officer
Barbara Rose Johns: The Teenager Who Set in Motion the End of Segregation
Edward Allen Carter Jr.: A Real Life Action Hero Who Fought Franco, Hirohito, and Hitler
Jack Johnson: The Unapologetically Black Heavyweight Champion Who Challenged Jim Crow Conventions
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Fearsome Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Named After
Dan Bullock: The Fifteen-Year-Old Marine Who Became the Youngest US Serviceman Killed in Vietnam
The Student Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
Young Warriors – Alexander H. Johnson, the Drummer Boy of the Civil War’s 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep It In Their Pants: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings