- Hall of Black Achievement
 - Chronicles significant achievements and contributions of people of colour, offering biographies of Hall of Black Achievement inductees. - Al-Amin, Jamil Abdullah (H. Rap Brown)@
- Anderson, Marian (1902-1993)@
- Assata Shakur@
- Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770)@
- Baldwin, James (1924-1987)@
- Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806)@
- Bell, Cool Papa@
- Benga, Ota (1883-1916)@
- Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955)@
- Biography.com: Black History Month
- Features biographies of famous African American groundbreakers and heroes for Black History Month.
- Bond, Julian@
- Bridges, Ruby@
- Read about Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to attend a formerly segregated school and hence endure hostility and ostracism from segregationists. Sites offer bio, background information, speeches, online resources, interviews, and pictures of the girl who became a civil rights icon in 1960 and grew to be an education activist.
- Bunche, Ralph (1903-1971)@
- Learn about Ralph Bunche, the American political scientist and diplomat who won Nobel Peace Prize for his 1940s mediation in Palestine. Sites provide biography, political and historical achievements, photos, documentary film, and obituary for the civil rights advocate.
- Byrd, James, Jr.@
- Carney, William H. (1840-1908)@
- Carver, George Washington (1861?-1943)@
- Learn about George Washington Carver, the African American African American botanist and chemist. Sites provide biography, articles, and pictures of the inventor whose work led to advances in agriculture, chemistry, and textiles.
- Charleston, Oscar@
- Chisholm, Shirley@
- Read about Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress. Sites provide biography, political profile, quotes, speech, and documentary of the 1972 presidential campaign by the Democratic Presidential Nomination candidate, educator, and author.
- Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-1998)@
- Find sites for Cleaver Eldridge, one of the prominent American civil rights leaders and a dominant member of the Black Panther Party. Sites provide biography, political profile and interview of the former Minister of Information for the BPP.
- Cochran, Johnnie (1937-2005)@
- Coleman, Bessie (1896-1926)@
- Learn about Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold international pilot's license. Sites include biography, achievements, and more about the aviator popularly known as '"Queen Bess".
- Dandridge, Ray@
- Davis, Angela@
- Learn about Angela Davis, the American communist organiser, professor who was linked to the murder of Judge Harold Halet during an attempted Black Panther prison break. Sites feature biography, articles, interviews, transcripts, and critique of the leftist activist and founder of the anti-prison grassroots organisation Critical Resistance.
- Davis, Benjamin O., Jr. (1912-2002)@
- Davis, Benjamin O., Sr. (1877-1970)@
- Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)@
- Drew, Charles Richard (1904-1950)@
- Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868-1963)@
- Evers, Medgar (1925-1963)@
- Find sites for Medgar Evers, the African American civil rights leader and field secretary for the NAACP who was assassinated at the age of 37. Sites offer biography, publications, media productions, essays, and articles about the legacy of civil rights leader and army veteran.
- Famous Figures in Black History
- Biographies of famous figures to and in Black History.
- Foster, Rube (1879-1930)@
- Fulani, Lenora@
- Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940)@
- Gibson, Josh (1911-1947)@
- Gregory, Dick@
- Haley, Alex (1921-1992)@
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)@
- Hemings, Sally (1773-1835)@
- Henson, Josiah (1789-1883)@
- Henson, Matthew (1866-1955)@
- HistoryMakers, The
- Video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history, with biographies and videos of black people who have made significant contributions to American life.
- Hughes, Albert and Allen@
- Jackson, Jesse@
- Read about Jesse Jackson, the professional civil rights activist and a prominent leader of American Christian Left. Sites provide biography, political and religious profile, writings, speeches, commentary, archived essays, and audio clips of speeches by the famous African American spokesman for civil rights issues.
- Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897)@
- Jemison, Mae C.@
- Johnson, John H. (1918-2005)@
- Johnson, Judy@
- Johnson, Sergeant Harry@
- Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996)@
- Just, Ernest Everett (1883-1941)@
- King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006)@
- Find sites for Coretta Scott King, the civil rights leader and wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Sites provide biography, political profile, civil rights activities, obituary, and bibliography of works by and about the politician and recipient of Congessional Gold Medal.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)@
- Learn about Martin Luther King Jr., the renowned American Civil Rights Movement leader who won Nobel Peace Prize for peacemaking and for promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races. Sites offer bio, political career, writings, historical speeches, letter archives, interviews, and online library resources about the political activist and Baptist minister who is regarded as one of America's great orators.
- Latimer, Lewis Howard (1848-1928)@
- Lewis, John@
- Democratic representative from Georgia.
- Malcolm X (1925-1965)@
- Find sites for Malcolm X, the American Black Muslim minister and a one-time spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Sites offer biography, political and religious profile, ideology, quotes, interviews, historical clips, and chronicles of life and assassination of the politico-religious leader who was called 'Satan' for his vitriolic hatred for bible, God, and religion in general before his conversion to Islam.
- Manley, Effa (1900-1981)@
- Describes the life of activist and Negro League Baseball team owner Effa Manley including her family, her devotion to baseball and the rights of its players, and her election as the first woman into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Marshall, Thurgood (1908 - 1993)@
- Find sites for Thrugood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Sites provide biography, education, law career, opinions, interviews, speeches, and obituary for the jurist most remembered for his jurisprudence in civil rights and criminal procedure.
- McCoy, Elijah (1843-1929)@
- Meredith, James@
- Read about James Meredith, the civil rights activist and author of Three Years in Mississippi. Sites provide biography, photos, participants' accounts of the Meredith March, and details of the civil rights activism of the first African American student of the University of Mississippi.
- Micheaux, Oscar@
- Moore, Harry T. (1905-1951)
- Companion site to the documentary Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore.
- Moses, Bob@
- Find sites for Bob Moses, the pivotal civil rights movement organiser and developer of the mathematics literacy programme, Algebra Project. Sites provide biography, political career, articles, and projects started by the political leader who is also an Harvard-trained educator.
- Newton, Huey P. (1942-1989)@
- Paige, Rod@
- Paige, Satchel@
- Parks, Rosa (1913-2005)@
- Read about Rosa Parks, the African American activist who was called the Mother of the American Civil Rights Movement. Sites offer biography, political life, video clips, news coverage, historical milestones, archived interviews, remembrances, and chronology of Rosa Parks' historical boycott which triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
- Powell, Colin@
- Prominent African Americans
- Capsule biographies and links for prominent African Americans of the past and present.
- Randolph, A. Philip (1889-1979)@
- Know about Philip Randolph, the African American civil rights leader and founder of the first black labour union in the United States. Sites provide biography, articles, interviews, museum archives, obituary, and the civil rights and trade union work of the labour activist and civil rights pioneer.
- Rice, Condoleezza@
- Rillieux, Norbert (1806-1894)@
- Robeson, Paul (1898-1976)@
- Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972)@
- Read about Jackie Robinson, the African-American Major League Baseball player credited for breaking baseball's colour barrier. Sites feature biography, career stats, articles, photos, and facts on the Brooklyn Dodgers legend who ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation in 1947.
- Rustin, Bayard (1912-1987)@
- Explore the sites for Bayard Rustin, one of the most influential African American civil rights leaders and gay rights activist. Sites offer biography, political profile, articles, and documentary film on the civil rights and labour activist who counseled Martin Luther King Jr., on the techniques of nonviolent resistance.
- Seale, Bobby@
- Sharpton, Al@
- Civil rights activist and former candidate for the 2004 Democratic nomination.
- Sheppard, William Henry (1865-1927)@
- Sister Souljah@
- Smith, Amanda (1837-1915)@
- Taylor, Walter Marshall (Major) (1878-1932)@
- Thomson Gale: Biographies
- Collection of biographies of prominent African American people including Condoleezza Rice, Nat King Cole, Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, and Malcolm X.
- Till, Emmett (1941-1955)@
- Read about Emmett Till, the 14-year old African American boy whose brutal murder in 1955 is cited as one of the key events that triggered American Civil Rights Movement. Sites provide background information, abduction and murder details, investigation reports, news articles, photos, and documents of the murder of the boy after he reportedly whistled at a white woman.
- Toussaint l'Ouverture (1746-1803)@
- Truth, Sojourner (1797-1883)@
- Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913)@
- Ture, Kwame (Stokely Carmichael) (1941-1998)@
- Read about Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), the Trinidadian American black activist in the 1960s American Civil Rigths Movement. Sites offer life, political legacy, pictures, quotes, speech transcript, and obituaries to the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
- Turner, Nat (1800-1831)@
- Walker, Madame C.J. (1867-1919)@
- Find sites for Madame C.J. Walker, haircare industry pioneer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who founded the Madame C.J.Walker Manufacturing Company. Sites feature biography, achievements, pictures, and the haircare and grooming system developed by the beauty moghul who is cited as the first female American self-made millionaire by the Guinees Book of Records.
- Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)@
- Wells, Ida B. (1862-1930)@
- Who2 Profiles: Black History
- Biographical background and resources on prominent African American figures.
- Wilkins, Roy@
- Williams, Cathay (1842-?)@
- Williams, Daniel Hale (1856-1931)@
- Find Dr. Daniel Hale Williams biographical information, including his early years, the first open-chest surgery, and his contributions to the world of medicine and medical training and care for African-Americans.
- Williams, Rob (1925-1996)
- Companion site to the PBS documentary.
- Woods, Granville T. (1856-1910)@
- Woodson, Carter Godwin (1875-1950)@
- Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.@
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