This is the grave of Henry Demarest Lloyd. Born in 1847 in New York City, Lloyd grew up in a middle class family. It was a religious family and they went to Henry Ward Beecher's church, who became a major influence on Lloyd's reformist vision...
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This is the grave of Eleazar Wheelock. Born in Windham, Connecticut in 1711, Wheelock grew up in what passed for the elite of the early 18th century, which wasn't really.
This is the grave of James Merrill. Born in 1926 in New York City, Merill grew up extremely wealthy. Like his father is the Merrill of Merrill Lynch levels of.
This is the grave of Charles Comiskey. Born in 1859 in Chicago, Comiskey grew up in the early Illinois elite. His dad was a long time Irish-American city councilperson, though seems to have been at least sometimes in odds with the Democratic political machine and...
This is the grave of Joe Simon. Born in 1913 in Rochester, New York, Hymie Simon grew up in a Jewish immigrant family, though not from where most Jews were.
This is the grave of Emmett Till. You know, I don't really have anything to say here. We all the know the story of Emmett Till. We all know the.
Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent Arizona and Nevada have moved to the left, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana have sprinted...
This is the grave of Alexander Crummell. Born in 1819 in New York City, Crummell grew up in the free Black world there. Remember though that New York was the.
This is the grave of John Lewis. What to even say about John Lewis? He's such a well known figure and a hero to almost everyone who knows anything about.
This is the grave of Philip Landrum. Born in Martin, Georgia in 1907, Landrum grew up mostly in Macon and went to school there and then onto Mercer University, the Baptist university in that town. Landrum definitely also grew up with all the prejudices of...
This is the grave of Jai Hyon Lee. So I don't have a heck of a lot to say here outside of this grave itself. If I'm looking for a.
This is the grave of Dan Roundfield. Born in Detroit in 1953, Roundfield was a big kid and thus a basketball player. He was a 6'8" forward from Detroit. But.