United States – Vermont
John Ralph Lyons (1888-1941)
John Ralph Lyons was born February 22, 1888 in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to James Levi and Harriet (Baptist) Lyons. ...
Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont (1909-1913)
In July of 1909, 750 10th Cavalry “Buffalo Soldiers” marched into Vermont for their assignment at Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester,...
First Emancipation
From the late seventeenth century onwards, a few American colonists, mostly Quakers, had expressed their moral opposition to the spread...
Ronald H. Brown (1941-1996)
Described by President Bill Clinton as “one of the best advisors and the ablest people I ever knew,” Ron Brown...
Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1732-1821)
The author of the first known work of African American literature (the poem “Bars Fight”), Lucy Terry Prince was kidnapped...
Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
Lemuel Haynes was a Patriot involved in the American Revolutionary War, a prominent New England Congregational minister, and the first...
Jeffrey Brace (ca. 1742-1827)
Born in West Africa Jeffrey Brace (born Boyrereau Brinch) was enslaved at the age of sixteen and transported to Barbados,...
Alexander Twilight (1795-1857)
Reputed to be the first African American in the United States to graduate from college, Alexander Twilight was born on...
