- male, deceased (1806)
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the dictatorial 1801 constitution....
- male, deceased (1770)
- Crispus Attucks ("circa" 1723 - March 5, 1770), was the first of five people killed in the Boston Massacre. He has been frequently named as the...
- male, deceased (1850)
- Jean-Pierre Boyer, Haïtian soldier and President of Haïti (1818-1843), born a free mulatto in Port-au-Prince, and educated in France. He fought wi...
- male, deceased (1818)
- Alexandre Sabès Pétion was President of the southern Republic of Haïti from 1806 until his death. Pétion was born in Port-au-Prince to a black moth...
- female, deceased (1994)
- Fredi Washington (Fredericka Carolyn Washington) (December 23 1903 - June 28 1994) was an African-American film actress of the 1930s. She is most...
- male, deceased (1898)
- Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 - April 15, 1898) was an antebellum African American abolitionist in the United States. Purvis was born in...
- female, deceased (1862)
- Jeanne Duval was a mulatto actress, dancer, and muse to French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire, for twenty years. They met in 1842, when...
- male, deceased (1857)
- Stephen Bishop (1820?-1857) was a mixed race slave famous for being one of the lead explorers and guides to the Mammoth Cave in the U.S. state of...
- male, deceased (1944)
- George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 - April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip "Krazy Kat".
- male, deceased (1874)
- Juan Victor Séjour Marcou et Ferrand was an American expatriate writer who worked in France. Though mostly unknown to later African American a...
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