[…] Teaneck, Monmouth Country, New Jersey on September 19, 1945 to the late Judge Almeric Christian and Virginia Sterling Christian. Christensen attended St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, where she received her Bachelor of Science in 1966. She then earned her M.D. degree from […] … Read MoreDonna Marie Christensen (1945- )
Frederick Douglass Patterson, renowned educator and founder of the United Negro College Fund, was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1901. He was orphaned at the age of 2 and his older sister cared for him. Patterson attended Prairie View Normal and Industrial […] … Read MoreFrederick D. Patterson (1901-1988)
In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil […] … Read MoreTelling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser’s Civil War Espionage
Mary Eliza Mahoney, America’s first black graduate nurse, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on May 7, 1845. Originally from North Carolina, her parents were among the southern free blacks who moved north prior to the Civil War seeking a less racially discriminatory environment. […] … Read MoreMary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926)
Marie Walker Johnson was a Black Creole civil rights activist in Oakland, California, during the 1960s. A mother of five and a nurse, she also played a crucial role in multiple grassroots groups in the East Bay area. In these organizations, she marched, wrote letters, … Read More … Read MoreMarie Clara Delpit Walker Johnson (1921-1974)
Mary Lou Williams was an African American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded over one hundred records. Williams was born as Mary Elfireda Scruggs on May 8, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in […] … Read MoreMary Lou Williams (1910-1981)
Mary Burnett Talbert, clubwoman and civil rights leader, was born on September 18, 1866, to Cornelius and Caroline Nicholls Burnett in Oberlin, Ohio. Mary Burnett graduated from Oberlin High School at the age of sixteen and in 1886 graduated from Oberlin College with […] … Read MoreMary B. Talbert (1866-1923)
Mary Elizabeth Branch, one of the most prominent black women educators of the first half of the twentieth century, was born on May 29, 1881 in Farmwell, Virginia, to Tazewell and Harriett Branch, both former slaves. Tazewell was a politician and was elected twice to the […] … Read MoreMary Elizabeth Branch (1881-1944)
[…] World War Two, Daly was awarded funding for her Ph.D. program at Columbia University where she studied under a white female chemist, Mary L. Caldwell. She completed her dissertation in 1947. Daly earned an apprenticeship with Dr. A.E. Mirsky at the Rockefeller Institute but […] … Read MoreMarie Maynard Daly Clark (1921-2003)
In 1938 Frances Mary Albrier became the first woman elected to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee. She also founded the East Bay Women’s Welfare Club whose goal was to get black teachers hired in the Berkeley schools. This campaign saw success with the […] … Read MoreFrances Mary Albrier (1898-1987)
