This is the grave of Bella Abzug. Born in 1920 in New York, Bella Savitzky grew up in a Russian Jewish immigrant family. Her father ran a deli and she worked in it from the time she was a small child. She was always a...
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This is the grave of Thomas Bragg. Born in 1810 in Warrenton, North Carolina, Bragg grew up in a slaveholding family, not quite elite, but certainly more than comfortable enough.
This is the grave of Artur Rodzinski. Born in 1892 in Split, in what is today Croatia, Rodzinski grew up in the elite of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father.
This is the grave of Ann Richards. Born in 1933 in Lakeview, Texas, Dorothy Ann Willis grew up in Waco. She graduated from high school there and then went to college in town at Baylor University, making her probably the best thing ever associated with...
This is the grave of Powhatan. Born in approximately 1547 in the Virginia tidewater, we know very little of the first sixty years of his life. His actual name was.
This is the grave of Edgar Toppin. Born in 1928 in Harlem, Toppin grew up in a literate but poor Black family, one that really struggled through the Great Depression,.
This is the grave of Vic Atiyeh. Born in Portland in 1923, Atiyeh grew up in an immigrant family. His parents were Syrian immigrants, though in the modern context, we would probably call them Lebanese Christians. He grew up in the Orthodox Church, played offensive...
This is the grave of James Buchanan Duke. Born in December 1856 near Durham, North Carolina, Duke was of course named after the incoming president, who had a strong claim.
These are the graves of Thomas Hatton, Lewis Davies, and other victims of the Avondale Colliery coal mine fire. What I'm going to do here is paste my Labor History.
This is the grave of Delia Bacon. Born in 1811 in Tallmadge, Ohio, Bacon didn't have a great start to life. Her father was a Congregationalist minister in Connecticut, but he had some sort of vision and decided to move to the Ohio frontier, where...
This is the grave of Henry Edwards. Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1779, Edwards grew up in the post-Revolutionary elite. Somewhat surprisingly, Edwards did not go to Yale, but.
This is the grave of Charles Thomas Jackson. Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1805, Jackson grew up in the New England elite. Just as an example, his sister married Ralph.