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Harriet Ross Tubman

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Harriet Ross Tubman (1822-1913) was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, ...

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Edward Cook

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Edward Cook was born a free Black on October 11, 1816 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Henry Cook, an African Ibo, held in slavery in Maryland. Henry escaped his master, joined an Indian trib...

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Carlita Murphy Jones

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Feb 3, 2013 Biographies

The Muse of History records immortal queens as leaders. There are those who lead ostentatiously and boldly and those who lead subtly, quietly, and discreetly while helping to mold a strong future for ...

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Feb 9, 2012 Biographies

Rudolph Lewis (born 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) was raised by his grandparents William and Ella Lewis of Jarratt, VirginiaÃ¢â‚¬”in the Village of Jerusalem. He was recruited 1967 by SNCC organizer Bo...

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Feb 5, 2012 Biographies

Una Mulzac was born on April 19, 1923 in Baltimore and moved to the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY as a little girl. She graduated from Girls High School, where she ran track, and got a se...

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Peggy Brooks Bertram

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Nov 4, 2011 Biographies

Peggy Brooks-Bertram is the youngest child and seventh daughter of Margaret Gilliam Brooks and Vernon Brooks of Richmond, Virginia. She has two brothers, Ivor and Herman Randolph. She moved to Buffalo...

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Emily Butler Beale

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Jul 10, 2011 Biographies

Emily Butler Beale was born in Sparrows Point , Maryland on June 30, 1904 . Her parents were John Mack and Manie Marshall Butler. When Emily was only two months old, her parents and grandparents moved...

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Theresa Greene Reed MD

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Theresa Greene Reed was born on December 9, 1923, in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to her mother's home, Buffalo, New York, when she was an infant. She attended P.S. #17 and was graduated with distin...

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Sylvia Leola Sutton Moye

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Sylvia was the firstborn of the late Stanley and Sophronia Sutton. She was born June 8, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1936 she moved to Buffalo, New York with her parents and four siblings. In due c...

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Frances Murphy Campbell

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Frances L. Murphy II, Washington publisher emeritus and editorial page editor of the Afro-American Newspapers, was an associate professor and head of the journalism sequence at the State University at...

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