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Born enslaved in Tuckahoe, Maryland, Frederick Douglass would become one of the foremost African American leaders of the nineteenth century. He learned to read as a house slave for Sophia and Hugh Auld and became strongly involved in the underground railroad.
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Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, the middle child born in their grandfather William’s house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. There were a few black-owned businesses; a bank, two insurance companies, a drugstore that grew into a chain of five drugstores throughout the city. He became the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Discover more about Garrett Augustus Morgan... the African-American inventor who patented the first traffic signal in the United States and a breathing device to protect firefighters, a precursor to the modern gas mask.
