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Green Fields (1840-1914)
Green Fields, former Seattle City employee, early African American resident of the Queen Anne Neighborhood in Seattle, and soldier with...
George Washington Rawles (1845-1922)
George Rawles was born in South Carolina to a young slave mother owned by Benjamin Rawles II. At the age...
Mary Ann Spencer Smith (1917-2001)
Postal worker, real estate broker and civil rights activist, Mary Ann Spencer was the 10th child of twelve. She was...
John Jones (1817-1879)
John Jones, apprentice tailor, writer, and politician was born in 1817 in Green City, North Carolina to a German father...
Pompey Factor (1849-1928)
Pompey Factor, former slave, scout for the United States Army and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, was born in Arkansas...
Robert T. Hickman (1831-1900)
Robert Thomas Hickman, born enslaved in Missouri in 1831, is most noted for the group of slaves including his wife...
Robert Morris, Sr. (1823-1882)
Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born...