Political Activists – Accommodationists
Annie E. Brown (1862-1918)
Annie E. Brown gained fame as a Methodist Episcopal evangelist in the late 1800s and early 1900s, earning a national...
John Berry Meachum (1789-1854)
John Berry Meachum was a businessman, a founder of the oldest black church in Missouri, and a pioneer in the...
Niagara Movement (1905-1909)
The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After...
Scott Joplin (1867-1917)
Scott Joplin, a musician and composer of ragtime music, was born in 1867 to ex-slave parents who worked as laborers...
W. Sherman Savage (1890-1981)
Born on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on March 7, 1890, William Sherman Savage was forced to withdraw from primary...
Charleton Tandy (1836-1919)
Charleton Tandy was born in Kentucky in 1836 to parents who were free only because his grandparents had purchased the...
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Booker T. Washington is one of the most controversial and dominant figures in African American history. According to his autobiography...
Isaiah T. Montgomery (1847-1924)
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery was an African American leader best known for founding the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi and...
