Occupation – Political Organizer
Jesse Gray (1923-1988)
Jesse Gray is best known for his leading the Harlem Tenant Council in the 1960s. Born May 14, 1923 in...
John Raymond Jones (1899–1991)
John Raymond Jones, also known as the Harlem Fox, was a Harlem politician and the first African American to lead...
Mercedes Frias (1962- )
Politician and immigrant and women’s rights advocate Mercedes Lourdes Frias was born in the municipality of San Antonio de Guerra,...
Paul Bogle (1822-1865)
Paul Bogle led the last large scale armed Jamaican rebellion for voting rights and an end to legal discrimination and...
Addie Waites Hunton (1866-1943)
Educator, civil rights activist, writer, suffragist, and political organizer, Addie Waites Hunton was born in Norfolk, Virginia on June 11,...
Harry Thuku (1895-1970)
Harry Thuku, one of the pioneers of African nationalism in Kenya, was born in the Kambui region of the British...
