United States – Hawaii
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)
Alice Augusta Ball, a pharmaceutical chemist, was born in Seattle, Washington in 1892 to Laura and James P. Ball Jr....
William Lineas Maples (1869-1943)
William Lineas Maples, a physician and musician, was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, on March 31, 1869. The son of Edward...
Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment
In the account below University of Quebec at Montreal historian Greg Robinson describes the activies of Hugh MacBeth, a black...
Betsey Stockton (1798-1865)
Betsey Stockton was born into slavery in Princeton, New Jersey in 1798. She belonged to Robert Stockton, a local attorney. ...
Wesley Brown (1927-2012)
Wesley Brown earned distinction in 1949 as the first African American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. Wesley...
Anthony D. Allen (1774-1835)
Formerly enslaved Anthony D. Allen found his way to Hawaii and made his home there in the early 1800s. Allen...
Hampton University (1868- )
Hampton University, located on the shore of Chesapeake Bay in Hampton, Virginia, was founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong,...
Nolle Smith (1888-1982)
Nolle Smith, cowboy, politician, diplomat, was born on his parents’ ranch in Horse Creek, Wyoming in 1888 but grew up...
(1894) William Saunders Scarborough, “The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question”
William Saunders Scarborough, born in 1852 in Macon, Georgia, the son of a free black father and an enslaved mother...
