Andrea Mcdaniels | February. 13, 2020 We all know about Frederick Douglass, the great Maryland abolitionist and orator, and Harriett Tubman, who led fellow slaves from Maryland on perilous trips to freedom. Ms. Tubman in particular has received long overdue recognition in recent years, including a motion picture based on her life, a state […]
Biography: Verda Freeman Welcome (1907-1990) was born in Lake Lure, North Carolina in 1907. As one of fifteen children to farmers John and Docia Freeman, Verda struggled with limited resources and an inadequate amount of money for education. But her determination to acquire knowledge gave her the motivation to work during the day and attend […]
Biography: William Lloyd Adams (1914-2011) was an African American businessman. Born in Zebulon, N.C., William Lloyd “Little Willie” Adams arrived in Baltimore in 1929, when he moved in with an aunt and uncle on North Bond Street. He attended Dunbar High School for a time. During the Depression, he worked in a rag factory, delivered […]
Biography: Victorine Quille Adams (1912-2006) was a Baltimore Public School teacher, business manager of the Charm Center, Founder of the Colored Women’s Democratic Campaign Committee, Co-Founder of Woman Power, Incorporated, and first African American Baltimore City Councilwoman. She was a native Baltimorean whose contributions sought to improve political participation, economic opportunity and equity for all. […]
Biography: Juanita Jackson Mitchell (1913-1992) was a civil rights leader, community activist, and lawyer born in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Lillie May (Carroll) Jackson and Keiffer Jackson. She had two sisters, Virginia and Marion and one brother. Juanita and her family frequently moved across the South at that time because her father showed feature films […]
Biography: Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., (1920-2010) was born Jan. 19, 1920, in Cincinnati. Haysbert was the fourth of eight children, and three of his younger siblings died while he was still a child. His father moved away when he was eight years old, and with the Depression following soon after, Haysbert and his three brothers […]