Brown, Hallie Quinn b. March 10, 1850 d. September 16, 1949 Educator. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was an African American educator and elocutionist who pioneered in the movement for Black women's clubs. Educated at Wilberforce University Ohio, she taught on plantations and in the public schools of Mississippi and South Carolina. In the 1870s, she traveled as an elocutionist and lecturer, speaking in Europe as well as the United States on topics of the life of Blacks in America. She helped form the first British Chautauqua, England and lectured...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Massies Creek Cemetery, Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, USA
Delany, Martin Robison b. May 6, 1812 d. January 24, 1885 Civil War Union Army Officer, Medial Pioneer, Social Reformer. Born a free black, he moved with his family from his birthplace at Charleston, (West) Virginia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a child. While studying Greek and Latin at Jefferson College in 1832, he began to consider the propriety of a "back to Africa" movement for American blacks. During a cholera epidemic in 1833, he began apprenticing with Dr. Andrew N. McDowell. In 1836, he conceived "A Project for an Expedition of Adventure to...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Massies Creek Cemetery, Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, USA
b. March 10, 1850 d. September 16, 1949