by FredericksBrendaEllis | Aug 11, 2021 | African American History, People
Frederick Augustus Hinton, barber, abolitionist, early advocate for independent Black presses, and founding member of the Colored Conventions movement, was born enslaved in Raleigh, North Carolina, to unknown parents. Emancipated in Philadelphia in 1825 at the age of...
by LangWilliam | Jul 25, 2018 | African American History, People
William Johnson, known as the Barber of Natchez, was one of the most prominent African Americans in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Johnson was born enslaved on December 20, 1809, in Mississippi Territory. His father, also named William Johnson, was his owner, and his...
by PowellMeili | Jul 16, 2018 | African American History, People
Leonard Bailey was an African American inventor and businessman in Washington, D.C., in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1825 to an impoverished free black family, Bailey rose in status by becoming a journeyman barber. Through this success, he eventually...
by McBrideColin | Nov 27, 2017 | African American History, People
Derrick Jones was an East Oakland, California barber who was shot and killed by officers of the Oakland Police Department on November 8, 2010. He was 37 years old at the time of his death. His death, along with those of many others, including the well-known killings...
by DorseyMauriceW | Dec 27, 2012 | African American History, People
Charles Lewis was a sailor and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. Lewis was born sometime around 1760 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia on Bel Aire, the Lewis Family Plantation owned by John Lewis. John and a free mulatto woman, Josephine Lewis, were the...
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