United States – Georgia
James M. Nabrit, Jr. (1900-1997)
James Madison Nabrit, Jr. was a renowned civil rights lawyer, Howard University president, and United Nations deputy ambassador. During his...
John Stanford (1938-1998)
John Stanford was the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools from 1995 until his untimely death from leukemia in 1998. He...
Los Angeles Forum (1903-1942)
Founded in 1903 by J.E. Edwards, Jefferson Lewis Edmunds, and Frederick Roberts, the Los Angeles Forum served as a civil...
Dorothy Hollingsworth (1920-2022)
Dorothy Hollingsworth, a prominent educator and politician, achieved a number of “firsts” during her years in Seattle. The most important...
Barbara Ann Posey Jones (1943- )
In 1958, Barbara Ann Posey, then a high school student, emerged as one of the most important youth leaders in...
John W. Blassingame (1940-2000)
John Wesley Blassingame was one of the preeminent scholars in the study of enslaved African Americans. His early monographs The...
Samuel Milton Nabrit (1905-2003)
A marine biologist, academic, and administrator, Samuel Milton Nabrit was born in Macon, Georgia, to James Madison Nabrit and Gertrude...
Jacqueline Harrison Barrett (1950- )
Jacqueline Harrison, the Sheriff of Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia, was born on November 4, 1950, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to...
George Washington Rawles (1845-1922)
George Rawles was born in South Carolina to a young slave mother owned by Benjamin Rawles II. At the age...
