Josiah Quincy, Jr. (February 23, 1744 – April 26, 1775)
John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826)
A collection of biographies to celebrate Black History Month, first published on OutHistory on January 23, 2014.
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow damned up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and…
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
“My presence here ... is one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need not forever be deferred” (Democratic National Convention, 1976).
Barbara Jordan
Alvin Ailey playbills
Alvin Ailey and Judith Jamison
“ That’s my perception of what dance should be—a popular form, wrenched from the hands of the elite” (Ailey, 101).
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
E. Lynn Harris
E. Lynn Harris
Beauford Delaney self portrait
Beauford Delaney