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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...