African American history

By the summer of 1944, the United States was deep into the Second World War, and the demand for ammunition…

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 July 1908, into a Black family that valued education, discipline and…

Billie Holiday Biography Billie Holiday was a well-known American jazz singer who was born on 7 April 1915 as Eleanora…

Rosa Parks Biography Although the Civil War had officially ended over 60 years before she was born, Rosa Parks was…

Nina Simone Biography Nina Simone was a complicated woman.  Extraordinarily talented musically, she played a wide variety of styles, and…

Louis Armstrong Biography Considered the most important improviser in jazz, Louis Armstrong taught the world to swing. Fondly known as…