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Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867 on a cotton plantation near Delta, Louisiana. She was the first child in her family to be born free. During the 1890s, Madam C.J. Walker develope...
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867 on a cotton plantation near Delta, Louisiana. She was the first child in her family to be born free. During the 1890s, Madam C.J. Walker develope...
Dr. Maya Angelou was born in 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet, and civil rights activist best known for her 196...
Jackie Robinson was born in 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. In 1944 while serving as a second lieutenant in the United States Army, he was arrested and court-martialed for refusing to giv...
Langston Hughes was born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He moved to New York at an early age becoming one of the earliest innovators of a new art form, jazz poetry. Later, he became...
Ida B. Wells was born in 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was born enslaved and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Ida B. Wells wrote about issues of race and politics...
Booker T. Washington was born in 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia. He was born into slavery and was freed at 9 years old at the close of the Civil War. After graduating, Booker T...
The Burlington County Council of PTAs presents the 52nd Annual Founder's Day Celebration! Click on the image or the link below to register for this virtual event: BCC PTA FOUNDER'S...
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland sometime between 1820 and 1825. Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous "conductor" on the...
Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1933, Thurgood Marshall received his law degree from Howard University. At this time African American people were sti...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. At the time in that part of the country, segregation—or the separation of races in places like schools, buses, and...
Katherine Johnson was born in 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She started high school when she was just 10 years old and college when she was 15. After she graduated...
Bessie Coleman was born in 1892, in Atlanta, Texas. In 1921, a time of both gender and racial discrimination, Bessie Coleman broke barriers and became the world's first Black woman...
Willingboro High School is going to allow fans into our facility for the remainder of the basketball season. Fans must wear a mask at all times while in our facility. Tickets wil...
George Washington Carver was born in 1864, in Diamond, Missouri. He took a keen interest in plants, natural pesticides, soil conditioners and became known as the “plant doctor”. In...
Dr. Charles Drew was born in 1904 in Washington D.C. Dr. Drew developed a method for processing and preserving blood plasma or blood without cells. Plasma lasts much longer than wh...
Dr. Mae Jemison was born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. In 1985, she applied to NASA’s astronaut training program. On September 12, 1992, Dr. Jemison flew into space aboard the Endea...
Garrett Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Kentucky. In 1914, Garrett Morgan patented a breathing device “safety hood” that protected wearers in the presence of smoke, gas, and othe...
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Frederick Douglass taught himself and other enslaved people how to read and write. Frederick Dougla...