5 Lesser-Known Figures in Black History You Should Know

In the 1950s, over 40,000 citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus service for 381 days—a massive undertaking that was funded and fed by a clandestine group of women.

Bayard Rustin was one of Martin Luther King's key advisors who planned the March on Washington in 1963. Yet as a gay man, he forced to work in the shadows.

Colonel Charles Young overcame racism to rise through the ranks and create his legacy in the great outdoors.

Bessie Blount Griffin’s dexterity led her to work as a forensic scientist, where she detected forged documents and became the first African American woman to work at Scotland Yard.