United States – Pennsylvania
Absalom Jones (1746-1818)
Absalom Jones was born into slavery in Sussex, Delaware in 1746. He taught himself to read in his early teens...
William T. Coleman Jr. (1920-2017)
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., a prominent Republican lawyer and businessman, served as Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford. Born...
John Edgar Wideman (1941- )
John Edgar Wideman was born in 1941 in Washington, D.C. but grew up in the predominantly black middle class community...
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local 8 (1913-ca. 1928)
Local 8 was an interracial, multiethnic local that was part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a militant,...
Selma Hortense Burke (1900 -1995)
Selma Hortense Burke was a nurse, a teacher, and an influential American artist. Born in Mooresville, North Carolina, she was...
Nina Simone (1933-2003)
Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tyron, North Carolina in 1933, Nina Simone began playing the family piano at the age...
Clarence Muse (1889-1979)
On October 14, 1889, Clarence Edouard Muse was born to Alexander and Mary Muse in Baltimore, Maryland. Muse had intended...
The Great Migration (1915-1960)
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915...
The Underground Railroad (1820-1861)
The Underground Railroad was established to aid enslaved people in their escape to freedom. The railroad was comprised of dozens...
