Black American History Websites
George Washington Carver - He is one of our nation's most famous agricultural scientists, and is best known for his research on peanuts and his commitment to helping poor Southern African American farmers.
Frederick Douglass -
a leader in the abolitionist movement and the first black citizen to hold high
rank (as U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti) in the U.S. government
W.E.B. Du Bois - noted scholar, editor, and African American activist. Du Bois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP -- the largest and oldest civil rights organization in America)
Duke Ellington - one of the founding fathers of jazz music
Langston Hughes - one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture
Martin Luther King, Jr. - the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all
Harriet Tubman - learn about the famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad - lots of information about the Underground Railroad