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...
August 11th, 2021

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...
July 25th, 2018

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...
July 16th, 2018

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,...
November 27th, 2017

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...
December 27th, 2012

Joseph Cassey (1789-1848)
Joseph Cassey was born in the French West Indies in 1789. He arrived in Philadelphia sometime before 1808. Cassey prospered...
January 14th, 2008

Peter William Cassey (1831-?)
Peter William Cassey was born in Philadelphia in 1831, the son of renowned African American abolitionist Joseph Cassey. Cassey learned...
January 30th, 2007

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...
January 19th, 2007