Great Americans You Should Know

Daniel Hale Williams, Pioneering Surgeon

Daniel Hale Williams, Pioneering Surgeon

Melvin Otey

"Anything is possible when it's done in love, and everything you can do should be done in love, or it will fail." You may not know the name Daniel Hale...

Daniel Hale Williams, Pioneering Surgeon

Melvin Otey

"Anything is possible when it's done in love, and everything you can do should be done in love, or it will fail." You may not know the name Daniel Hale...

Benjamin Banneker, Ingenious Scientist and Engineer

Benjamin Banneker, Ingenious Scientist and Engi...

Melvin Otey

“The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.” Born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Benjamin Banneker attended...

Benjamin Banneker, Ingenious Scientist and Engi...

Melvin Otey

“The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.” Born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Benjamin Banneker attended...

Ruby Bridges, Civil Rights Activist

Ruby Bridges, Civil Rights Activist

Melvin Otey

“All of us are standing on someone else’s shoulders. Someone else that opened the door and paved the way. And so, we have to understand that we cannot give up...

Ruby Bridges, Civil Rights Activist

Melvin Otey

“All of us are standing on someone else’s shoulders. Someone else that opened the door and paved the way. And so, we have to understand that we cannot give up...

Frederick Douglass, Father of the Civil Rights Movement

Frederick Douglass, Father of the Civil Rights ...

Melvin Otey

"I have made up my mind wherever I go, I shall go as a man, and not as a slave. I shall always aim to be courteous and mild in...

Frederick Douglass, Father of the Civil Rights ...

Melvin Otey

"I have made up my mind wherever I go, I shall go as a man, and not as a slave. I shall always aim to be courteous and mild in...

Charles Hamilton Houston, The Man Who Killed Jim Crow

Charles Hamilton Houston, The Man Who Killed Ji...

Melvin Otey

“A lawyer’s either a social engineer, or he’s a parasite on society.”  Charles Hamilton Houston, born September 3, 1895, enrolled in Amherst College at the age of 16 as the...

Charles Hamilton Houston, The Man Who Killed Ji...

Melvin Otey

“A lawyer’s either a social engineer, or he’s a parasite on society.”  Charles Hamilton Houston, born September 3, 1895, enrolled in Amherst College at the age of 16 as the...

Medgar Evers, Martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

Medgar Evers, Martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

Melvin Otey

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm...

Medgar Evers, Martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

Melvin Otey

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm...