Crispus Attucks - revolutionary war hero, martyr for freedom, first to fall at Boston Massacre of 1770

Edward Wilmot Blyden - liberian scholar, linguist, author, diplomat

Richard H. Caine - United States Congressman

Joseph Cinque - leader of the Amistad Revolt

John Francis Cook - educator, minister

Paul Cuffee - colonizer, shipbuilder, ship owner, civil rights in the 18th century

Thomas Day - cabinetmaker

James Durham - Physician

Robert Brown Elliott - Unted States congressman

Henry Ossian Flipper - first negro graduate of West Point

The Colored Cadet at West Point by Henry Ossian Flipper

James Forten - revolutionary war hero, abolitionist, inventor, capitalist-equalitarian abolitioist

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield - Singer aka Black Swan

Archibald H. Grimke - lawyer, diplomat, editor

William Lloyd Garrison by Archibald H. Grimke

Charlotte L. Forten Grimke - abolitionist and teacher

Francis Ellen Watkins Harper - abolitionist poet

Lemuel Haynes - revolutionary war hero, minuteman, congregational minister of New England,

Absalom Jones - minister Protestant Episcopal congregation for Negroes

Isaac Lane - educator, bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church, founder Lane College in Tennessee

Lewis Sheridan Leary - fought with John Brown at Harpers Ferry

Jermaine Wesley Loguen - Antislavery leader, minister

John Willis Menard - United States Congressman

William Cooper Nell - Antislavery leader, Historian

Peter Salem - revolutionary war hero

Ignatius Sancho - Scholar 18th century england

Prince Saunders - Diplomat/Statesman/Scholar, soldier at Battle of Bunker Hill,

James Varick - bishop and founder of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Gustavus Vasa (Olaudag Equiana) - world traveler, colonizer

Primus Hall - revolutionary war hero

Liberia - CITIZENS OF THE US - YES I SAID IT!

Revolutionary War and Beyond

Denmark Vessey - slave revolt, freedman

Nat Turner (1800-1831) - slave and preacher

Daniel Alexander Payne (1811-1893) - bishop and educator African Methodist Episcopal and first negro president pf Wilberforce University

Benjamin and Robert Pelham - founded The Plaindealer paper in Detroit