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Charles V. Johnson (1928- )
Charles Vernon Johnson was an influential member of the Seattle African American community from the moment he moved out west...
William Henry Hastie (1904-1976)
William Henry Hastie Jr., attorney and diplomat, was born on November 17, 1904 in Knoxville, Tennessee to parents William Henry...
Edith Spurlock Sampson (1901-1979)
Edith Spurlock was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 13, 1901. She grew up in a working class family, one...
Jane Bolin (1908-2007)
Jane Bolin was the first Black woman graduate of Yale Law School and the first Black female judge in the...
Carl B. Stokes (1927-1996)
Carl B. Stokes, lawyer, anchorman, U.S. diplomat and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, was born...
Ernest Nathan Morial (1929-1989)
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 9, 1929, Ernest “Dutch” Morial grew up in the city’s English and French-speaking...
Hayzel B. Daniels (1913-1992)
Prominent civil rights attorney Hayzel B. Daniels earned his B.S. in Social Sciences in 1939 and an M.A. in Education...
Charles Moorehead Stokes (1903-1996)
Charles Moorehead Stokes, one of three sons of Rev. Norris Jefferson Stokes and Myrtle Garner Stokes, was born on February...
