Bill Lohse
Bill Lohse is a graduating senior at the University of Washington. He has a particular interest in western African American history and has a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Articles by
Charles Henry Langston (1817-1892)
Charles Henry Langston, the grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, was born a free man on a Virginia plantation in 1817...
Henry Bibb (1815-1854)
Henry Walton Bibb was the eldest of the seven male children of Mildred Jackson. Henry was told that his father,...
Felix Haywood (1855- ?)
Felix Haywood was the son of slave parents bought in Mississippi and brought to San Antonio, Texas by Felix’ future...
Henry Clay Bruce (1836-1902)
Henry Clay Bruce, brother of the first black U.S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce, was born into slavery in Virginia to...
John A. Coleman (1852-?)
John A. Coleman was born a slave in 1852 in Talladega County, Alabama. After he received his freedom at the...
John B. Rayner (1850-1918)
John Baptist Rayner was born a slave in North Carolina to mixed race parents Kenneth Rayner and Mary Hicks in...
Peter Lester (1814- ? )
Peter Lester moved with his wife Nancy and five children to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1850, where he was...
Samuel Burdett (1849-?)
Samuel Burdett grew up in Kentucky. While still a young man, he joined the Union Army and served as a...
Seaborn J. Collins (1852- ?)
Seaborn J. Collins was born and raised in Georgia. He migrated to Seattle, Washington with his wife Alzada and son...
William McDonald Austin (?-?)
Determined to study law in the United States, William McDonald Austin moved from his home in Barbados to San Francisco,...
