Occupation-Barber
Frederick Augustus Hinton (1804-1849)
Frederick Augustus Hinton, barber, abolitionist, early advocate for independent Black presses, and founding member of the Colored Conventions movement, was...
William Johnson Jr. (1809-1851)
William Johnson, known as the Barber of Natchez, was one of the most prominent African Americans in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Johnson...
Leonard C. Bailey (1825-1918)
Leonard Bailey was an African American inventor and businessman in Washington, D.C., in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1825 to an impoverished...
Derrick Jones (1983-2010)
Derrick Jones was an East Oakland, California barber who was shot and killed by officers of the Oakland Police Department on November 8,...
Charles Lewis (ca. 1760-1833)
Charles Lewis was a sailor and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. Lewis was born sometime around 1760 in Spotsylvania...
Joseph Cassey (1789-1848)
Joseph Cassey was born in the French West Indies in 1789. He arrived in Philadelphia sometime before 1808. Cassey prospered...
Peter William Cassey (1831-?)
Peter William Cassey was born in Philadelphia in 1831, the son of renowned African American abolitionist Joseph Cassey. Cassey learned...
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...
