Check out the amazing stories of those erased and/or marginalized from history. Each story is fascinating, and I look forward to seeing them on our screens as more diverse and inclusive content come to our screens and to Hollywood!
The archive includes:
6888: The All Black, All Women, WW2 Battalion
Bass Reeves: The First Deputy Sheriff West of the Mississippi and the Lone Ranger Inspiration
Sepoys: WW1 South Asian Indian Soldiers
The Golden 13: First Black US Navy Men
Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Schindler
Jackie Mitchell: The Woman Who Struck Out Babe Ruth
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: Manhattan Project Scientist
George Edwin Taylor: First Black President Nominee
Dr. Patricia Bath: Laser Cataract Surgery Inventor
Mary Tape: Fought for Chinese-US American Access to Public Education
William Henry Johnson: Black WW1 Hero
Gertrude Elion: Biochemist and Pharmacologist
Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters
The Indian Princesses & Smallpox Vaccinations