The Donald L. Logan Civil War Memorial Page – People – Political Activists
Robert Morris, Sr. (1823-1882)
Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born...
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897)
John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia, on December 14, 1829....
John Willis Menard (1838-1893)
John Willis Menard, abolitionist, author, journalist, and politician, was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to French Creole parents. He...
Horace King (1807-1885)
Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807, in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and...
Ebenezer D. Bassett (1833-1908)
Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For...
James Poindexter (1819-1907)
James Poindexter clergyman, abolitionist, politician, and civil rights activist, was born in Richmond Virginia in 1819. He attended school in...
Joshua Bowen Smith (1813-1879)
Joshua Bowen Smith, caterer, abolitionist, and state senator, was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania in 1813. Details regarding his childhood remain...
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873)
Charles Lenox Remond was born into an elite free Black family in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents, John and Nancy Lenox...
Jonathan Gibbs (1827-1874)
Born a freeman in Pennsylvania in 1827, Jonathan Gibbs was the son of Maria Jackson and the Methodist minister, Jonathan...
