Selected Biographies of many of Maryland's Distinguished African-Americans

Click on the names below to read biographies of Maryland's distinguished African-Americans.

Ira Aldridge

Benjamin Banneker

Eubie Blake

Frederick Douglass

Henry Highland Garnet

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Josiah Henson

Matthew Henson

Billie Holiday

Joshua Johnston (Johnson)

Thurgood Marshall

James Amos Porter

William Still

Charles Albert Tindley

Harriet Tubman

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