Unheralded African-American Pioneers and Trailblazers You Should Know
(Updated: February 5, 2021) Bessie Coleman (left) Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain // Shirley Chisholm (center) Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain // Dr. Lonnie Johnson (right) Office of Naval Research Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Whether they were involved in Civil Rights, politics, science, technology, sports, or music, African-American history is full of innovators, though they don't always get their due. Here are 25 unheralded Black pioneers and trailblazers you should know. 1. JESSE L. BROWN When Jesse LeRoy Brown was a teenager, he wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to express his...
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