United States – Maine
Samuel Harrison (1818-1900)
Samuel Harrison, a minister, political activist, and former slave, became one of Berkshire County, Massachusetts’s most ardent abolitionists. Harrison was...
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (1951- )
Hand-picked by his American Express predecessor, CEO Harvey Golub, to lead the company upon Golub’s retirement, Kenneth Chenault is an...
James Augustine Healy (1830-1900)
James Augustine Healy was the first born of ten children to Michael and Mary Eliza Healy on April 6, 1830...
George Thompson Ruby (1841-1882)
George Thompson Ruby was born in New York in 1841 but reared in Portland, Maine. After acquiring a sound liberal...
(1857) Frances Ellen Watkins, “Liberty For Slaves”
Frances Ellen Watkins was born of free parents in Baltimore in 1825. After teaching in New York and Pennsylvania Watkins...
(1826) John B. Russwurm, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti”
Antebellum African Americans took enormous pride in Haiti. The nation of the enslaved rose in rebellion in 1791 and on...
Sarah Gammon Bickford (1855-1931)
Sarah Blair was born into slavery on Christmas Day, 1855, on the Blair Plantation near Greensboro, North Carolina. After the...
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
James Weldon Johnson, composer, diplomat, social critic, and civil rights activist, was born of Bahamian immigrant parents in Jacksonville, Florida...
Benjamin Mays (1895-1984)
Benjamin Mays, Christian minister, scholar, advocate for justice, and an educator, was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina on August 1,...
