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Hester C. Jeffrey (1842-1934)
Hester Jeffrey, an organizer and activist who became involved in the women’s movement in the city of Rochester, New York,...
George S. Jeffrey (1830-1906)
Although he never held public office, George S. Jeffrey barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, emerged as one of...
Kirke Smith (1865-1935)
Kirke Smith was born July 22, 1865 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He graduated from Berea College in1894 and earned an...
Melvin Jay “Mel” Reynolds (1952- )
Politician, scholar and professor, Mel Reynolds was born on January 8, 1952, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to parents J.J. and...
Barack Obama Jr. (1961- )
Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States and the first African American to occupy the White House. ...
Carol Moseley Braun (1947- )
Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate, was born in Chicago, Illinois on...
Buxton, Iowa (1895-1927)
Most coal mining communities are transitory due to the demands of the mining industry. However, that was not the case...
Oak Hill, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1920-1950)
The Oak Hill neighborhood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had in the first decade of the 20th Century been the residence...