Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)Minister and civil rights leader.
Collection
History
Movements rise, records are reclaimed, and legacies refuse to disappear in this collection of leaders and scholars who reshaped Black memory.Section
Civil Rights
Malcolm X
(May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965)Civil rights leader and public intellectual.Claudette Colvin
(September 5, 1939 - January 13, 2026)Civil rights pioneer.Fannie Lou Hamer
(October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977)Voting rights organizer and political leader.Section
Political History
Shirley Chisholm
(November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005)Politician, educator, and author.Barbara Jordan
(February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996)Lawyer, legislator, and educator.Thurgood Marshall
(July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993)Lawyer and Supreme Court justice.John Lewis
(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020)Civil rights organizer and member of Congress.Section
Cultural History
Carter G. Woodson
(December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950)Historian, author, and institution builder.Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(September 16, 1950 -)Literary scholar, historian, and filmmaker.Nell Irvin Painter
(August 2, 1942 -)Historian, author, and artist.Darlene Clark Hine
(February 7, 1947 -)Historian and professor.Section
African Diaspora
W. E. B. Du Bois
(February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963)Sociologist, historian, editor, and Pan-Africanist.Marcus Garvey
(August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940)Pan-African organizer, publisher, and entrepreneur.Frantz Fanon
(July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961)Psychiatrist, philosopher, and anti-colonial theorist.Chinua Achebe
(November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013)Novelist, poet, professor, and critic.