United States – Maryland
Daniel Coker (1780-1846)
Daniel Coker (born Isaac Wright) was a writer, activist, and a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church who...
African Americans and Cuba’s First Experiment in Castro-Era Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
In the article below University of California, Riverside historian Ralph Crowder describes this fascinating but little known attempt by Joe...
Kweisi Mfume (Frizzel Gray) (1948- )
Kweisi Mfume was born as Frizzel Gray in Baltimore, Maryland on October 24, 1948, the eldest of four children. Gray...
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901)
Hiram Rhodes Revels was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, and the first African...
Albert R. Wynn (1951- )
Albert Russel Wynn is Democratic representative of the State of Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of...
Daniel A. P. Murray (1852-1925)
Daniel A. P. Murray was born on March 3, 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of nine he left...
Father Divine (c.1876-1965)
Father Divine, founder of the International Peace Missions Movement, was a religious leader, businessman, and civil rights activist. He was...
Elijah E. Cummings (1951-2019 )
U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 18, 1951. He received a B.A. in political...
William Lacy Clay Jr. (1956- )
William Lacy Clay, Jr. is the son of former Missouri Congressman William L. Clay Sr., and now holds his father’s...
