This is the grave of Malcolm X. I hardly need to go over the biography of Malcolm X. Or at least I hope I don't. So here are a few points to spur discussion: 1) Malcolm really had one of the most remarkable journeys of...
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This is the grave of Lawrence La Monte. Information on La Monte is not that easy to find. He is known for one thing--he was a member of the American.
This is the grave of Henry Teller. A surprisingly decent man for a Gilded Age senator, Teller was born in 1830 near Granger, New York. He became a lawyer in.
This is the grave of the great Paul Robeson. Born in 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey to a father who was an emancipated slave and a mother who came from a prominent Quaker family, Robeson had a tough childhood. His father became a Presbyterian minister...
This is the grave of Al Haig. Unfortunately born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania in 1924, Haig grew up in a staunch Republican family. He really wanted to be a military.
This is the grave of James Sherman. Born in Utica in 1855, Sherman graduated from Hamilton College in 1878, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. The.
This is the grave of Hugo Black. Born in 1886 to a poor family in Ashland, Alabama, Black had an older brother who became a doctor and suggested his brother follow in his footsteps. That didn't quite happen, but Black went to the University of...
This is the grave of Francis Cabot Lowell (among others). Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1775, Lowell graduated from Phillips Academy in 1786 and from Harvard in 1793, in an.
This is the grave of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Two great actors and two great activists are buried here. Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia in 1917 and Dee.
This is the grave of Henry Yesler. Probably born in 1810 in Hagerstown, Maryland, Yesler was a unsettled young man. He left his home by 1830 and worked in New Orleans for awhile, spent some time in New York, and settled in Massillon, Ohio on...
This is the grave of Hal Roach. Born in 1892 in Elmira, New York, he traveled around as a young man and ended up in Hollywood in 1912. He got.
This is the grave of Ben Reitman. Born in 1879 (I am aware the stone says 1880, but that's wrong) to Russian Jewish immigrants in St. Paul, Reitman grew up.