Crummell, Alexander (03 March 1819–10 September 1898), clergyman, activist, and Pan-Africanist, was born in New York City, the son of Charity Hicks, a freeborn woman of Long Island, New York, and Boston Crummell, an African of the Temne people, probably from the region that is now Sierra Leone. Boston Crummell had been captured and brought to the United States as a youth. The circumstances of his emancipation are not clear, but it is said that he simply refused to serve his New York owners any longer after reaching adulthood. Boston Crummell established a small oyster house in the African Quarter of New York. Alexander Crummell received his basic education at the African Free School in Manhattan. In 1835 he traveled to Canaan, New Hampshire, along with his friends Thomas Sidney and ...
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Crummell, Alexander (1819-1898), clergyman, activist, and Pan-Africanist
Wilson J. Moses
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Logan, Rayford Whittingham (1897-1981), historian of the African diaspora, university professor, and civil rights and Pan-Africanist activist
Kenneth Robert Janken
Logan, Rayford Whittingham (07 January 1897–04 November 1981), historian of the African diaspora, university professor, and civil rights and Pan-Africanist activist, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Arthur Logan and Martha Whittingham, domestic workers. Two circumstances of Logan’s parents are germane to his later life and work. Although he grew up in modest circumstances, his parents enjoyed a measure of status in the Washington black community owing to his father’s employment as a butler in the household of Frederic Walcott, Republican senator from Connecticut. And the Walcotts took an interest in the Logan family, providing them with occasional gifts, including money to purchase a house. The Walcotts also took an interest in Rayford Logan’s education, presenting him with books and later, in the 1920s and 1930s, introducing him to influential whites in government. Logan grew up on family lore about the antebellum free Negro heritage of the Whittinghams. It is open to question how much of what he heard was factual; nevertheless, he learned early to make class distinctions among African Americans and to believe that his elite heritage also imposed on him an obligation to help lead his people to freedom and equality....
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Trotman, Minta Bosley Allen (13 February 1875–3 May 1949), clubwoman, community leader, suffrage advocate, and steward of African and African American material culture
Nancy Page Fernandez
Trotman, Minta Bosley Allen (13 February 1875–3 May 1949), clubwoman, community leader, suffrage advocate, and steward of African and African American material culture, was born Minta Bosley in Nashville, Tennessee, the only child of John Beal Bosley and Catherine Harding Bosley. Her mother died when Minta was just six months old. The Bosleys named their daughter after her maternal grandmother; her maternal grandfather Henry H. Harding, a former slave, was one of Nashville’s most prominent Black business and civic leaders. Her father, a real estate agent, operated a number of successful enterprises and ran for state representative in ...
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Whitfield, James Monroe (1822-1871), African-American poet, abolitionist, and emigrationist
Johnnella E. Butler
Whitfield, James Monroe (10 April 1822–23 April 1871), African-American poet, abolitionist, and emigrationist, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of parents whose names are unknown. Little else is known of his family except that he had a sister, a wife, two sons, and a daughter....
