Black Leaders Project: Home

1.  Databases: full MLA citation copied from Database

2. Books: Title and author's full name 

3.  Websites from the project page: title of webpage and the link of the web page 

• Phillis Wheatley--poet and author

  • National Women's History Museum: Link

  • The New Yorker: Link 

• Sojourner Truth--abolitionist and women’s rights activist

  • PBS: Link

  • National Abolition and Hall of Fame Museum: Link

• Nat Turner--rebellion leader

  • PBS: Link

  • Encyclopedia Virginia: Link

• Frederick Douglass--abolitionist and author

  • National Park Service: Link

  • PBS: Link

• Harriet Tubman--abolitionist and political activist

  • PBS: Link

  • Tubman Org: Link

• William H Carney--American war hero

  • US Army: Link

  • National Park Service: Link

• Elijah McCoy--inventor and scientist 

  • Biography: Link

  • Encyclopedia Detroit: Link

• Booker T Washington--educator

  • History: Link

  • National Park Service: Link

• George Washington Carver--inventor and scientist 

  • Science History Institute: Link

  • Historic Missourians: Link

• Madame CJ Walker--first female millionaire

  • PBS: Link

  • National Women’s Hall of Fame: Link

• Scott Joplin--musician/composer

  • Library of Congress: Link

  • Joplin Org: Link

• Hiram Revels--first African American United States Senator

  • US House of Representatives: Link

  • Constitution Center: Link

• Blanche K Bruce--United States Senator

  • US House of Representatives: Link

  • National Park Service: Link

• Ida B Wells--journalist & activist (permission from Mr. Duvall or Mr. Mayes):

  • National Women’s History Museum: Link 

• Phillip Alexander Bell--journalist

  • Media Museum Northern California: Link

  • Lincoln Memorial Shrine: Link