African Personalities Between 1880-1935
Slave Resistance | Abolitionism | Resistance to Colonialism | Pan Africanists | Black Consciousness
Slave Resistance
Harriet Ross Tubman
Harriet Ross Tubman (ca. 1820-1913) was a black American who, as an agent for the Underground Railroad, a clandestine escape route used to smuggle slaves to freedom in the North and Canada, helped hundreds flee captivity. >>>
Abolitionism
Frederick Douglas
The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) was the first African American leader of national stature in United States history. >>>
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), African American educator and racial leader, founded Tuskegee Institute for black students. His "Atlanta Compromise" speech made him America's major black leader for 20 years. >>>
Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet was a leading member of the generation of black Americans who led the abolition movement away from moral suasion to political action. Garnet himself did not stop with politics: he urged slaves to act and claim their own freedom. A constant theme throughout his life was the necessity for blacks to take their destiny into their own hands. However, he became highly critized in the 1850s for advocating the colonization and chritianzation of Africa. >>>
Resistance to Colonialism
Samori Ture
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Lat Dior Damel of Cayor
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Lock Priso (Kum' a Mbape)
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Pan Africanism
Edward W. Blyden
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Martin Robinson Delany
African American intellectual Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885), a journalist, physician, army officer, politician, and judge, is best known for his promotion before the Civil War of a national home in Africa for African Americans. >>>
Frederick Douglas
The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) was the first African American leader of national stature in United States history. >>>
John Hope
John Hope (1868-1936), was an African American educator. In 1906, he became the first black president of what is now Morehouse College in Atlanta. The four previous presidents of this black college had been white. >>>
William Monroe Trotter
William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), African American newspaper editor and protest leader, was the first prominent challenger of the accommodationist leadership of Booker T. Washington. >>>
Henry Sylvester Williams
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