This is the grave of Richard Wright. Born in 1908 on a plantation outside of Natchez, Mississippi, Wright grew up sadly not too different than so many black agricultural families..
This is the grave of Tim Keefe. Born in 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Keefe was the son of an Irish immigrant who fought for the Union in the Civil War..
This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
This is the grave of Abraham Ribicoff. Born in New Britain, Connecticut to Polish Jewish immigrants in 1910, Ribicoff's parents were deeply committed to educating their children. Rather than send.
This is the grave of Jack Johnson. Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Jack Johnson was the greatest challenge to white manhood in the Gilded Age. He left school as.
This is the grave of Andrew Goodman. Born in 1943 in New York, he grew up in a liberal Jewish family committed to social justice issues. After spending a short.
This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair's father would become Kentucky's attorney general after the family moved.
This is the grave of Chester Arthur. Born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. A minister's son, the family moved around a lot in his early years, finally settling in Schenectady,.
