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Although Eugene Bullard faced immense hate, violence, and racism, he made himself known as the first African American military pilot. Eugene was born in 1895 in Columbus, Georgia, where he was taught by his parents to love everyone despite their differences.  They...

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was born in Pennsylvania on January 18th, 1856, as his family's first child. After Dr. Williams received his medical degree from Chicago Medical College, eventually teaching there as well, as well as advocating for justice through work with...

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, the inventor of the sanitary belt, has been an ambitious woman from a young age. Growing up in Monroe, North Carolina, Mary was surrounded by inventors. Her father, Sidney, invented and patented a travel-sized clothing compressor, while...

Pierre Toussaint was a slave, born in Haiti in 1766.  During the course of his life, he raised funds for the first Catholic orphanage and began the city's first school for black children.  He is credited with being the founder of what is now known as Catholic...

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In the summer of 1961 she “attended a meeting led by civil rights activists James Forman of the Student...

Born on April 17, 1912, in Culloden, Georgia, Robinson distinguished herself early as the valedictorian of her high school class, went on to become the first person in her family to graduate from college, and became  a teacher.  She taught in the Macon, Georgia,...