Civil Rights Activists
Meredith Mathews (1919-1992)
Prominent social and civic leader in African American Seattle, Washington, Meredith Mathews was born in Thomaston, Georgia on September 14,...
Matthew Oliver Ricketts (1853-1917)
Dr. Matthew Oliver Ricketts was the generally acknowledged political leader of Omaha’s African Americans at the turn of the 20th...
Lulu B.White (1900-1957)
Lulu Belle Madison White, civil rights activist in the 1940s and 1950s, devoted most of her adult life to the...
Louise Beavers (1902-1962)
Film and television actress, Louise Beavers, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was part of an act called “Lady...
John H. Stuart (1854-1910)
The citizens of Colorado elected their first African American legislator in 1894, eighteen years after gaining statehood in 1876. The...
Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
Activist and writer Ida B. Wells-Barnett first became prominent in the 1890s because she brought international attention to the lynching...
Harry Haywood (1898-1985)
A radical theoretician, anti-colonialist, labor organizer, and civil rights activist, Harry Haywood was one of the most prominent and influential...
George S. Jeffrey (1830-1906)
Although he never held public office, George S. Jeffrey barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, emerged as one of...
Isaiah Edwards (1913-1994)
Isaiah Edwards was a community activist and advocate in Seattle’s Central Area. Isaiah Edwards and his wife, Marie, moved from...
