United States – Illinois
Carroll Napier Langston (1917-1944)
Tuskegee Airman 2nd Lt. Carroll Napier Langston, Jr. was born on September 25, 1917, in a modest household in St....
Milton Lee Olive III (1946–1965)
Milton Lee Olive III was a United States Army soldier and the first African American to receive the Medal of...
Alexander Miles (1838-1918)
Born near Circleville, Ohio to Michael Miles and Mary Pompy, Alexander Miles is the 19th Century African-American inventor known best...
Sonya Massey (1988-2024)
Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old African American woman was shot and killed in her home in Woodside Township by Sean Grayson,...
Fred Hampton (1948-1969)
Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and...
Scott Turner (1972- )
Scott Turner is the 19th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is the first African American to hold a...
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni (1943-2024)
“There’s no life in safety,” said three-time National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Award winner Yolande...
Huel Davis Perkins (1924-2013)
Huel Davis Perkins, a distinguished composer, pianist, professor, administrator, and orator, was born on December 27, 1924, in Baton Rouge,...
Greg Gumbel (1946-2024)
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