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Victoria Earle Matthews, Journalist, Author, and Social Worker

March 14, 2022

By Dan Gore Victoria Earle Matthews was a journalist, author, clubwoman, and social worker. She was born a slave in Fort Valley Georgia. Her mother Caroline Smith was said to have been a Virginian. Her white father was so cruel that her mother fled to New York, leaving her nine children with an old nurse. […]

Ellen Garrison, Antislavery Activist and Educator

January 27, 2022

By Dan Gore In 1866, Ellen Garrison tested the nation’s first Civil Rights Act in court. Almost a century before Rosa Parks took her seat on an Alabama bus, Ellen sat in a segregated waiting room in a Baltimore train station an was “forcibly ejected.” Ellen felt it was her duty to test the new […]