Allison Espiritu
Allison Espiritu graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with a degree in journalism. She has worked for a number of Seattle area newspapers including the International Examiner, OnePhilippines, the North Seattle Herald Outlook, and the Madison Park Times. Her feature stories have covered diverse topics ranging from alcohol awareness programs in the Seattle Middle School and the local impact of the Great American Smoke Out program to a discussion of the role of local restaurants in feeding the homeless. Allison is currently working at the Seattle Times as a News Lead Assistant.
Articles by
Margaret Murray Washington (1865-1925)
Margaret Murray Washington, born March 9, 1865, was one of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her father was of Irish...
Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897-1969)
Amy Ashwood Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, but spent most of her childhood in Panama where her father...
Amy Jacques Garvey (1896-1973)
Amy Jacques Garvey became the second wife of famous United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey in July 1922,...
James Wormley (1819-1884)
Born in Washington, D.C. on January 16, 1819, James Wormley was the son of free-born citizens Lynch and Mary Wormley....
Susan Taylor (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912)
Born on the Grest Farm in Liberty County, Georgia, on August 6, 1848, Susie Baker King Taylor was raised as...
James Augustine Healy (1830-1900)
James Augustine Healy was the first born of ten children to Michael and Mary Eliza Healy on April 6, 1830...
Thomy Lafon (1810-1893)
Born a free person of color in New Orleans, Thomy Lafon was the son of a Frenchman and a free...
Patrick Healy (1834-1910)
Patrick Healy was one of the successful Healy siblings of the early 19th century who openly acknowledged being of part...
Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown (1883-1961)
Born Lottie Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1883, her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, early in her childhood to...
Anthony Burns (1834-1862)
The youngest of thirteen children, Anthony Burns was born into slavery in Virginia on May 31, 1834. His family was...
Palmer Memorial Institute (1902-1971)
In 1902, Charlotte Brown Hawkins opened an institute for African American teenagers in North Carolina. She established the institute in...
Shadrach Minkins (ca. 1814-1875)
Born into slavery in Norfolk, Virginia (the actual year is uncertain), Shadrach Minkins spent the first thirty years of his...
