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Theresa Ernestine Richardson Pope

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Jul 8, 2024 Biographies

Theresa was born on January 8, 1944, in Somerset, Kentucky. She was the only child of Ernest Richardson and Theresa Owsley Richardson. She was lovingly raised by her maternal grandparents, Reverend Ro...

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William Wells Brown

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Recognized as the first African American novelist, William Wells Brown was born into enslavement in 1814 in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the child of a relative of the white plantation owner and an ens...

KY Lexington United States

James Alexander Ross

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Jun 13, 2022 Biographies

Contemporary newspaper accounts of the Phyllis Wheatley Club's protest meeting, to advocate for inclusion of the Negro Exhibit at the Pan American Exposition, named only four individuals of note: Club...

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Harriet Price Jacobson

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Harriet Price was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised in Kinsley, Kansas, where her father was a prosperous businessman. In addition to being a rancher and stockman, he also owned a livery stab...

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Derrick McShane Byrd Sr

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Jul 13, 2018 Biographies

A native of Louisville, Kentucky and a 1930 graduate of Hood Seminary at Livingston College in Salisbury, North Carolina, Reverend Derrick M. Byrd, Sr. served as a clergyman for nearly 50 years. Rev. ...

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Irene Evelyn Bishop Breckenridge

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Jul 12, 2018 Biographies

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Jessica "Judy" Grimm Johnson

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Mar 4, 2018 Biographies

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Jessica (Judy) Grimm was born on June 19,1909. She was the only daughter of Marcellus and Mary Burbridge Grimm. She was an infant when her parents moved to Clifton, Oh...

KY Lexington Politics United States

William Leonard Evans Sr.

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

William L. Evans was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1883. He graduated from Fisk University, studied architecture and engineering at Columbia University and became a partner of an architectural firm ...

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Feb 28, 2014 Biographies

Alvin Aaron Coffey was born a slave in Mason County, Kentucky on July 14, 1822 to Lewis Larkin Coffey and Nellie Cook. Alvin Coffey was determined to have a better life for himself and his family. Whe...

KY Mason County United States

Glendora Fant Birch-Johnson

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Aug 3, 2011 Biographies

Glendora was a pastor's wife who had several leadership roles in the Baptist Church. Born Glendora Fant in Beaver Dam, Kentucky, "Mother Birch" as she was called by her family, attended the Kentucky I...

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Delmar Mitchell

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Delmar was born in Providence, Kentucky on February 17, 1918. His parents were Lee and Tobitha Mitchell and he had one sibling, James. He graduated from DuSable High School in Chicago in 1936 and rema...

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