33. Benjamin Singleton, Black Nationalist
Benjamin Singleton was born into slavery and escaped as a young man. He fled the south and became a vocal abolitionist. He returned to the south but soon decided black Americans would never be able to achieve equality in the white-dominated South. After the end of Reconstruction, Singleton led thousands of black colonists to Kansas to establish black run towns. He then worked as an advocate for promoting black-owned business. An early supporter of black Nationalism, Singleton also was supportive of the Back-to-Africa movement.
