Military Conflict – World War II
Roscoe Dubois Draper (1919-2024)
Roscoe Dubois Draper, the last instructor of the Tuskegee Airmen, served during World War II and was a “triple-rated” Tuskegee...
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
Frederick McKinley Jones was a prolific early 20th Century black inventor who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration...
Robert “Bobby” Hall (?- 1943)
Robert “Bobby” Hall was an African American mechanic and World War II veteran who was killed by Baker County, Georgia...
Bessie Blount Griffin (1914-2009)
Bessie Virginia Blount, pioneer physical therapist, inventor, and scientist, was born in Hickory (today Chesapeake), Virginia, on November 24, 1914....
Thomas Bailey Shropshire (1925-2003)
Thomas Bailey Shropshire, a Past Grand Sire Archon of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (The Boulé), was a transformative figure...
Chester I. Lewis, Jr. (1928-1990)
Civil rights activist Chester Isaac Lewis Jr. was born on August 8, 1928, in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Chester Isaac, Sr.,...
James Usry (1922-2002)
The first African American major of Atlantic City, James Leroy Usry, was born February 2, 1922, in Athens, Georgia. Shortly...
Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. (1922-2016)
Tuskegee Airman and later College President Roscoe Conkling Brown, Jr., was born March 9, 1922, in Washington, DC, to Roscoe...
Edward Creston Gleed (1916-1990)
Tuskegee Airman Edward Creston Gleed, World War II combat fighter pilot, was born on November 5, 1916, in Lawrence, Kansas,...
