Micheaux incorporated African Americans from casting to funding to production
Walker was a bank president, newspaper editor, and fraternal leader.
Jackie Ormes used cartoons to talk about the social and environmental issues that mattered to the black community. So why has she been forgotten?
Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a U.S. patent, 44 years before slavery ended.
After Fred Jones lost a truckload of overheated chickens, he invented the refrigerated truck. Jones was self-taught, but took out 60 patents in his lifetime.
