[…] Ursuline Sisters ran the school for five years until the Sisters of the Holy Ghost (now Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate) from San Antonio arrived. (They then operated it for more than 40 years.) With the opening of the school, the […] … Read MoreHoly Cross Catholic Church, Corpus Christi, Texas (1914- )
[…] a trustee of the Gary Public Library Board, an executive member of the Gary United Fund, and a member of the St. Mary’s Medical Center advisory board. She was a member and trustee of the Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church. In 2007 the Urban […] … Read MoreAnn Moore Gregory (1912-1990)
[…] his retirement in 2007. Before Wellesley, Martin had taught at the University of Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College in Trinidad, and Saint Mary’s College, also in Trinidad. He was a visiting professor at Brown University, Brandeis University, the University of Minnesota, and Colorado College […] … Read MoreAnthony (Tony) Martin (1942–2013)
[…] New York City. By the start of the Civil War Gloucester was well known for her philanthropy. She continued to support St. Mary’s Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania even after the family moved to New York. She also donated money to purchase land […] … Read MoreElizabeth A. Parkhill Gloucester (1817-1883)
[…] School. Blacks Making History in Portland: a Project for Black History Week. Compiled by seventh and eighth grade students at Sabin School, Mary A. Collier and David D. Weitz, advisors. Portland: Sabin Elementary School, 1971. Savage, W. Sherman. Blacks in the West. Westport, Connecticut: […] … Read More(2010) History of African Americans in Portland & Oregon: A Selected Bibliography
[…] During her lifetime Woods earned honorary degrees from Benedict College, Talladega College, Fisk University, Bennett College, Meharry Medical College, and Howard University. Additionally, she was given the Mary Church Terrell Award and the Scroll of Merit of the National Medical Association in 1979, the Howard University Achievement Award in 1980, […] … Read MoreGeraldine Pittman Woods (1921-1999)
[…] in Canadian public office when he was elected Counselor of Raleigh, Ontario. Four of Shadd’s children became prominent in their own right. Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893), an educator, journalist, and lawyer, was the first black woman in North America to publish a newspaper. I.D. […] … Read MoreAbraham Doras Shadd (1801-1882)
[…] Massachusetts with plans to bolster the abolitionist movement in that state. While in Cambridge he lived several years in the home of Mary Jackson Safford, the sister-in-law of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe met Clarke, interviewed him on many occasions, and took detailed notes regarding […] … Read MoreLewis G. Clarke: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Hero
[…] 1884 and 18. He then worked as chief clerk in the office of the auditor of the U.S. Treasury. Robert Terrell met Mary Church when she accepted a teaching post at the Preparatory School for Colored Youth in Washington, D.C., where he was principal. […] … Read MoreRobert H. Terrell (1857-1925)
[…] Task Force and the Chicago Economic Development Commission. Davis received many awards through his lifetime, which included the NAACP Foundation award and Mary Herrick Fund Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 the city of Chicago designated the block of 24th Street between Michigan and Wabash […] … Read MoreCharles A. Davis (1922-2016)
