Co-founded Freedom House, Inc., a Boston nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to human rights and advocacy for African-Americans in Boston. Her leadership moved Freedom House into areas of urban renewal, minority employment, and educational equality for children as well as being a positive force for interracial cooperation
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
American sculptor
The Queen of Disco who won five Grammys and sold more than one hundred million records worldwide.
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Founded the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in 1968 eighteen years after opening the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (ELSFA) in Boston
African-American opera and jazz singer
Grammy-winning African-American opera singer
She joined the Nation of Islam in the mid-1950s where she helped to establish a mosque with a daycare center attached to it. In the early 1940s, she became the guardian of her half-brother Malcolm Little, who later changed his name to Malcolm X