
Julia Larsen
Bachelors degree in political science and minored in African studies at the University of Washington
Julia Henning Larsen has lived in Washington State almost her entire life. She got her bachelors degree in political science and minored in African studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She loves learning about other cultures and backgrounds. She always wanted to help people so later went back to the University of Washington, Seattle to get her masters in Special Education. She has been teaching ever since.
Articles by Julia Larsen

James Madison Bell (1826-1902)
James Madison Bell, poet, orator and activist was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on April 3, 1826. Bell lived in Ohio...
May 17th, 2008

Theodore Sedgwick Wright (ca. 1797-1847)
Theodore Sedgwick Wright, prominent clergyman, antislavery leader, and reformer was thought to have been born in New Jersey in 1797. ...
May 22nd, 2008

James G. Barbadoes (1796-1841)
James G. Barbadoes, abolitionist and colonizationist, was born in 1796. Barbadoes is thought to have come from the Island of...
May 23rd, 2008

James Theodore Holly (1829-1911)
James Theodore Holly emigrationist, missionary, and bishop, was born in Washington, D.C on October 3, 1829. At age fourteen his...
May 30th, 2008

Isaac Jefferson (1775-1853)
Isaac Jefferson, a slave of the third President of the United States, was born in December 1775 in Monticello, on...
June 29th, 2008

Canada Lee (1907-1952)
Canada Lee (the adopted name of Lionel Cornelius Canegata) was a noted 20th Century jockey, boxer, and actor. Born on...
June 29th, 2008

Bo Diddley (1928-2008)
Boxer and singer Bo Diddley (birth name Ellas Bates McDaniel), was born on December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. He...
June 29th, 2008

David Ruggles (1810-1849)
David Ruggles, abolitionist, businessman, journalist and hydrotherapist, was born in 1810 in Norwich, Connecticut. He attended the Sabbath School for...
June 29th, 2008

James Poindexter (1819-1907)
James Poindexter clergyman, abolitionist, politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Richmond Virginia in 1819. He attended school in...
June 29th, 2008

Peter Williams Jr. (1780-1840)
Peter Williams Jr., clergyman, abolitionist, and opponent of colonization was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey around 1780. His family...
June 30th, 2008

Charles B. Ray (1807-1886)
Charles Bennett Ray journalist, clergyman, and abolitionist was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts on December 25, 1807. He attended school in...
June 30th, 2008

Christopher Paul Gardner (1954- )
Christopher Paul Gardner—entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and writer—was born on February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gardner, never knowing his father,...
February 22nd, 2009