Racial Conflict – Segregation/Integration
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873)
Charles Lenox Remond was born into an elite free Black family in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents, John and Nancy Lenox...
Harry Clay Smith (1863-1941)
Harry Clay Smith was a newspaper editor and politician, born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on January 28, 1863. He moved...
John W. Cooper (1873-1966)
John W. Cooper was an African American ventriloquist, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1873. After losing both of his...
James Madison Bell (1826-1902)
James Madison Bell, poet, orator and activist was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on April 3, 1826. Bell lived in Ohio...
David Augustus Straker (1842-1908)
Image Ownership: Public Domain David Augustus Straker, author, lawyer, and politician, was born and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, where he...
Nathaniel Paul (ca. 1793-1839)
Early 19th Century abolitionist minister Nathaniel Paul was born into a free black family in Exeter, New Hampshire and was...
Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900)
Fisk Jubilee Singer and preacher Isaac Dickerson was born enslaved in Wytheville, Virginia in 1852 and orphaned by the age...
Greene Evans (1848-1914)
Greene Evans, Fisk Jubilee Singer, Memphis City Councilman and Tennessee State Assemblyman, was born somewhere in Tennessee and emancipated after...
Thomas Rutling (1854-1915)
Born a slave, Thomas Rutling was one of only four Fisk Jubilee Singers who remained with the company through all...
