Contributions African Americans have given to the United States.
Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada on May 2, 1844, the son of former slaves who had fled from Kentucky before the U.S. Civil War. Educated in Scotland as a mechanical engineer, Elijah McCoy returned to the United States and settled in Detroit, Michigan. He began experimenting with a cup that would regulate …
Educator and civil and women’s rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. A child of former slaves, she began her life picking cotton, but a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina in 1888 launched her long and distinguished career as educator and activist. Believing that education provided the key to racial …
Slave, social activist. Born in 1795 in¬¨‚ĆSouthampton County, Virginia. Born into slavery, Dred Scott made history by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom.¬¨‚ĆAfter the death of his¬¨‚Ćoriginal owner, he was sold to another man and spent time as a slave in¬¨‚Ćtwo free states. Scott tried to buy freedom for himself and his family …
(born June 3, 1904, Washington, D.C., U.S.‚Äö√Ñ√Ædied April 1, 1950, near Burlington, N.C.) African American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion. Drew was educated at Amherst College (graduated 1926), McGill University, Montreal (1933), and Columbia University (1940). While earning his doctorate at Columbia in the late …
