How Many of These Five Black People Have You Heard Of? (Patreon)

Here's five black people you may not know about. If you do know all five, shout out to you! <3 

References +Further Reading

Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley 1904-1995  (Esme Bhan)

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University (Thomas C. Battle)

"Pap" Singleton, the Moses of the Colored Exodus (Walter L. Fleming)

African American Homesteading on the Central Plains (Decoursey Clayton Lucas)

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton: Leader of the Exodusters (Femi Lewis)

Bessie Delany Dies at 104; Co-Wrote 'Having Our Say' (Charisse Jones)

Bessie Delany (Columbia University Biography)

Bessie and Sadie Delany 1993 Interview

"In the Shadow of Fort Dearborn": Honoring De Saible at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934 (Christopher R. Reed)

Statue Stories Chicago (Lydia R. Diamond)

Case Study: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable

Negro Who Founded Chicago (Lerone Bennet Jr.)

Hearing the Missing Voice (Teresa A. Nance)

Septima Clark's Rhetorical and Ethnic Legacy: Her Message of Citizenship in the Civil Rights Movement (LaVerne Gyant and Deborah F. Atwater)

Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976.