Category : History
The George Latimer Case
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Lewis H. Latimer’s father, George W. Latimer, was the first fugitive slave whose emancipation guided and influenced the American abolitionists of the 1850s. His flight...
National Council of Negro Women
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National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), an American umbrella organization, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in New York City on December 5, 1935, whose mission...
Eunice Hunton Carter – The Woman Who Reeled in Lucky Luciano
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In 1935, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was sitting pretty as the de facto head of the “Commission,” a powerful syndicate of New York City’s five largest...
Helen Pitts
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Helen Pitts was born in Honeoye, New York, her parents were activists in the abolitionist and suffragist movements. She was also a descendant of John...
Anna Murray Douglass
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Anna Murray, the wife of Frederick Douglass and the mother of their children, personifies the unheralded woman behind the great man. She’s lucky to get...
Why Was Frederick Douglass’s Marriage to Helen Pitts Controversial?
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On the morning of January 25, 1884, Jane Pitts woke up to newspaper headlines that her daughter Helen, without her knowledge, had married the famous...
Catcher Race Riot of 1923
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The December 28, 1923, assault and murder of a white woman in the Catcher community in Crawford County quickly ignited a firestorm of racial hatred...
Scipio Africanus Jones
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Scipio Africanus Jones was a prominent Little Rock (Pulaski County) attorney and one of the city’s leading African-American citizens at the end of the nineteenth...