To celebrate Black History Month this October, we want to put the spotlight on the black heroes who make a difference in your life. Share your hero with us We want to hear about the black heroes ...

He hired Black and white laborers ... African Americans can boast of a history replete with heroes; people who faced impossible obstacles with courage, survived and prospered.

Related Episode: Our Colored Heroes Investigation In this episode, History Detective Tukufu Zuberi ... was discriminatory in its deployment of Black soldiers. No African Americans were allowed ...

But neither of these surgeons would've achieved their remarkable feats without the support of two unsung heroes who never received ... Due to the fact they were black men working in the 1940s ...