Nubian Inspiration

Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr . was born on February 25, 1928, in   New Jersey. At 16 Higginbotham enrolled in   Purdue University. He ch...

  Ruby Nell Bridges Hall was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby was four her family relocated to New Orleans,...

Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1864. She was the oldest daughter of   Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a well-known m...

Charles B. Purvis was born in 1842 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age 18, Dr. Purvis journeyed to Oberlin College in Ohio at the demand...

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms was born on January 12, 1870 in  Richmond, Virginia. During the 19890s, she moved to New York   to study eloc...

Mary Eliza Mahoney was born on May 7, 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She became interested in nursing as a teenager and later was th...

Born in the year 1813 in New York City, James McClune Smith, M.D. was the first melaninite in American to own a pharmacy in the United St...