In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Josephine Baker. She was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and civil rights advocate who took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with 250,000 other civil rights supporters.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Winston Churchill, the politician, artist, bricklayer, historian, soldier, biographer, essayist who led Great Britain through World War II.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet. Ruled in their favor, Mumbet and Brom became the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 in Brom & Bett v. Ashley which was argued before a county court in August 1871.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette. She became a widow when her husband, Louis Auguste, was guillotined to death after being tried and convicted of treason in January 1793.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of John D. Rockefeller, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the General Education Board in 1902 with a $1,000,000 donation to “sponsor and support aid to education in the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed.”

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer Frances Ellen Watkins. Born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, she emphasized that Black women faced the double burden of racism and sexism, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Edison, whose inventions who during his lifetime had over 1,000 patents to his name. His inventions include the photograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.