Europe – France
(Sara) Saartjie Baartman (1789-1815)
Saartjie (Sara) Baartman was one of the first black women known to be subjugated to human sexual trafficking. She was...
Paul Biya (1933- )
Paul Biya has been President of Cameroon since 1982. Biya was born on February 13, 1933, at Mvomeka’a, Meyomessala Subdivision,...
Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969)
Elbert Frank Cox, who perhaps most famous for exploring and expanding the Boole summation formula based on the work of...
Charles F. Booker (1923- )
Charles F. Booker is an Army veteran, civil servant, and community activist who fought against racially discriminatory schools in Plainfield,...
Gary Younge (1969- )
Writer Gary Younge was born in January 1969 in Hertfordshire, England, to Barbadian parents. He grew up in the town...
Louis-Benoit Zamor (1762-1820)
Louis-Benoit Zamor is best known for helping to send French Aristocrat Madame Jeanne du Barry to the guillotine during the...
Olga (Ollie) Burgoyne (1879-1974)
Olga “Ollie” Burgoyne, also known as Ollie Burgoyne-Calloway, was a singer and dancer specializing in Russian and other ethnic dances....
Rose Kanyange Kabuye (1961- )
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Rose Kanyange Kabuye rose to the highest rank in the Rwandan Army. She was also an advocate...
Gisèle Rabesahala (1929-2011)
Gisèle Rabesahala, a political and human rights activist and councilwoman, was born Marie Gisèle Aimée Rabesahala on May 7, 1929,...
