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• About Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage Commemorative Society

  This site is the Web’s largest and most comprehensive collection of historical Black American Biographies. It contains hundreds of inspirational stories of Black American Achievement. Our mission is i...

• Listing of All Biographies Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage Commemorative Society

  1908-1972  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was New York City’s first black congressman. Representing the residents of Harlem in the nation’s capital for two and a half decades as a forceful advocate for Afr...

• John Henry Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage Commemorative Society

  Mid-Late 19th Century  John Henry, about whom little is known, is a subject of legend and song, and may well have been a real person living in the late 19th century in West Virginia or Alabama. The le...

• James Forten Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage Commemorative Society

  1766-1842 James Forten used his success as a sailmaker in Philadelphia to advance the abolitionist cause. He founded numerous organizations to aid recently freed or[continue reading...]

• Nella Larsen Biography at Black History Now - Black Heritage Commemorative Society

  1891-1964  Nella Larsen, an acclaimed novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, became the first African American woman to win a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Most famous for her two books, Passing and...