Dr Mattie E Coleman
Trailblazing African American physician and community leader
Trailblazing African American physician and community leader
African-American author, poet, and playwright, celebrated for her contributions to African American and Native American literature.
Born into slavery, she gained her freedom in the early 19th century and became a pioneering figure in American history.
American activist for education and civil rights
African-American opera singer, educator, and civic leader
Trailblazing African-American educator and school principal.
African-American nurse and a pioneering real estate entrepreneur.
Prominent African-American socialite, cattle rancher, and philanthropist in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Prominent African American educator and church founder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
American educator and civil rights activist