Europe – Great Britain – England
Thomas Molyneux (1784-1818)
By all rights Thomas Molyneux should have become recognized as the first world boxing champion from the United States. Born...
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892-1975)
Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa...
James Armistead Lafayette (1760-1832)
James Armistead [Lafayette] was an African American spy during the American Revolution. Born in Virginia as a slave to William...
Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900)
Fisk Jubilee Singer and preacher Isaac Dickerson was born enslaved in Wytheville, Virginia in 1852 and orphaned by the age...
William L. Patterson (1891-1980)
William L. Patterson, born in San Francisco on August 27th, 1891, was a Marxist lawyer, author, and civil rights activist....
Patrice Emery Lumumba
(1925-1961)
Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the independent nation, the Republic of Congo, was born July 2, 1925, in...
Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907)
Edmonia Lewis, the first woman of African American and Native American ancestry to gain notoriety as a sculptor, was born...
Thomas Rutling (1854-1915)
Born a slave, Thomas Rutling was one of only four Fisk Jubilee Singers who remained with the company through all...
Benjamin M. Holmes (1846-1875)
Teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer, Benjamin M. Holmes was born a slave around 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina...
