Lacinda Mennenga
Lacinda Mennenga is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington. She is majoring in history, and hopes to graduate in 2009, at which time she will begin work on her masters degree. Lacinda considers history to be a vital part of understanding current world events, and intends to teach history as a study of activism.
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James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871)
James Monroe Whitfield, a black abolitionist and colonizationist, was born on April 10, 1822 in New Hampshire. Little is known...
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948)
Painter and educator Laura Wheeler Waring was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1887. The fourth child of six born to...
Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872)
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish...
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe “Jelly Roll” Morton (1885-1941)
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton, more popularly known as “Jelly Roll” Morton, was an influential early 20th Century composer and...
Camille Thierry (1814-1875)
Camille Thierry was a prolific Francophone poet, born to a French father and octoroon mother in New Orleans, Louisiana in...
Marion Barry, Jr. (1936-2014)
Marion Barry Jr., a civil rights activist and later three term mayor of Washington, D.C., was born on March 6,...
Pearl Primus (1919-1994)
Pearl Primus, dancer and choreographer, was born on November 29th, 1919, in Trinidad. Her parents, Edward and Emily Primus, immigrated...
Victor Séjour (1817-1874)
Victor Séjour was a playwright born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 2, 1817. His parents were Louis Victor Séjour...
Alberry Allson Whitman (1851-1901)
Alberry Allson Whitman was a romantic poet and a clergyman of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Whitman was born...
William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962)
William Stanley Braithwaite, the acclaimed poet and anthologist, was born in Boston on December 6, 1878. He was the second...
Horace Pippin (1888-1946)
Horace Pippin, a soldier in World War I and later a painter, was born on February 22nd, 1888 in West...
