- male, deceased (1858)
- Dred Scott was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous "Dred Scott v. Sandford" case of 1856. His case was based on the fact...
- male, deceased (1915)
- Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community....
- female, deceased (1896)
- Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;...
- female, deceased (1883)
- Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New...
- male, deceased (1831)
- Nat, remembered today as Nat Turner was an American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable...
- male, 62 years old
- Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and...
- male, deceased (1850)
- John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South...
- male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
- George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...
- male, deceased (1863)
- Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born in Virginia, Houston was a key...
- male, deceased (1830)
- David Walker was an American black abolitionist, most famous for his pamphlet "Walker's Appeal", which called for black pride, demanded the...
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