This is the grave of Mary Church Terrell. Born in 1863 to freed Black parents in Memphis, Mary Church grew up in the limited Black elite of the time. Of course, this meant she had a lot of white blood in her since the white...
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This is the grave of George Morgan. Born in 1925 in Waverly, Tennessee, Morgan grew up in Doylestown, Ohio. He started playing on the radio when he was a young.
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.
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 to own humans. He first studied at a military academy in Connecticut and then went...
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.
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 Wahunsenacawh and it was the English who called him Powhatan because that was one of...
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.
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 to the worst in history until Donald Trump. But that certainly represented the politics of...
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.