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Laurence Harold Banks (b. 1897) —
also known as Laurence H. Banks —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
31, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1947-48; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1948-50; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956.
Protestant.
African ancestry. Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George T. Banks and Alice E. (Simmons) Banks. |
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Ruth M. Batson (1921-2003) —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
3, 1921.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1964,
1972.
Female.
African ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 2003 (age 82 years, 86
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Paul B. Boutelle (b. 1934) —
also known as Paul Boutelle; Kwame Montsho Ajamu
Somburu —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
13, 1934.
Freedom Now candidate for New York
state senate, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1965; Socialist Workers
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1966; Socialist Workers candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; Socialist Workers candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1970.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015) —
also known as Edward W. Brooke —
of Newton Center, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
26, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1960; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1963-67; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1967-79; defeated, 1978.
Episcopalian.
African ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Amvets;
Alpha
Phi Alpha.
First
Black U.S. Senator in the 20th century; recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 1967.
Died in Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., January
3, 2015 (age 95 years, 69
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Tunis George Campbell (1812-1891) —
also known as Tunis G. Campbell —
of McIntosh
County, Ga.
Born in Middlebrook (unknown
county), N.J., April 1,
1812.
Minister;
abolitionist; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Georgia
state senate, 1868, 1869-72; expelled 1868; defeated, 1872; expelled
from the Georgia State Senate in 1868 based on the claim that only
whites could serve; charged
with falsely
imprisoning white men as Justice of of the Peace, and served a
year of hard
labor in Georgia's brutal leased labor system.
Methodist.
African ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
4, 1891 (age 79 years, 247
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Denise Jefferson Casper (b. 1968) —
Born in East Patchogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., 1968.
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 2010-.
Female.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2017.
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William Maurice Cowan (b. 1969) —
also known as Mo Cowan —
Born in Yadkinville, Yadkin
County, N.C., April 4,
1969.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 2013.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2013.
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Malcolm Gray Dade (1903-1991) —
also known as Malcolm G. Dade —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., February
27, 1903.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961-62.
Episcopalian.
African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha
Phi Alpha; Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
27, 1991 (age 87 years, 334
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isiah C. Dade and Margaret (Warfield) Dade; married to Bonnie Jean
Denham; father of Malcolm
G. Dade Jr.. |
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) —
also known as W. E. B. Du Bois —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Accra, Ghana.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
23, 1868.
College
professor; sociologist;
historian;
civil rights leader; Pan-Africanist; one of the founders of the
NAACP; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1920; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1949; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1950; in 1951, he and four other leaders
of the Peace Information Center, which was alleged
to be acting on behalf of the Soviet Union, were indicted
for their failure to register as foreign
agents; the case was dismissed in 1952, but his passport was
withheld until 1958; awarded the Lenin
Peace Prize in 1959.
African ancestry. Member, NAACP.
In 1895, he was the first
African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Died in Accra, Ghana,
August
27, 1963 (age 95 years, 185
days).
Entombed at Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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Archibald Henry Grimké (1849-1930) —
also known as Archibald H. Grimké —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., August
17, 1849.
Newspaper
editor; U.S. Consul in Santo Domingo, 1894-98.
African and German
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1930 (age 80 years, 192
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) —
also known as Abdul Hamid; Eugene Brown; "The
Black Hitler"; "The Harlem Hitler";
"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi Abdul
Hamid" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1903.
Self-styled cleric; labor
leader; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and a
green velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlem
whose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees;
conducted street
rallies in Harlem where he denounced
Jews; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war against
the Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933; arrested
in October 1934; tried and
found guilty on misdemeanor charges of making a
public speech without a permit, and selling books without a
license, and sentenced
to ten days in jail;
later suspected
of inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led to injunctions
against his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife,
Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, and shot
at him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded the
Buddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility.
Buddhist
or Muslim.
African ancestry.
Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out of
fuel and crashed
near Wantagh, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 30,
1938 (age 35 years, 205
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1928-1998) —
also known as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
25, 1928.
Member, Federal Trade Commission, 1962-64; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1964-77;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1977-93.
African ancestry.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1995; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1996.
Died, following a series of strokes,
in a hospital
at Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1998 (age 70 years, 292
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hutchins Franklin Inge (1900-2002) —
also known as Hutchins F. Inge —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Osterville, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.; New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Charlottesville,
Va., April
16, 1900.
Democrat. Physician;
member of New
Jersey state senate District 11, 1966-67; defeated, 1967.
African ancestry. Member, Omega
Psi Phi; Urban
League; NAACP; American Medical
Association.
Died, in St. Luke's Hospital,
New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., March
28, 2002 (age 101 years,
346 days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.
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Ellen M. Jackson (b. 1935) —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
29, 1935.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1968
(alternate), 1972.
Female.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Daughter of David Swepson and Marguerite (Booker) Swepson; married to
Hugh L. Jackson. |
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George H. Jackson (b. 1863) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
28, 1863.
Medical
missionary;
U.S. Consul in Cognac, 1897-98, 1908; La Rochelle, 1898-1908.
African ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Leo Edwin Jackson (1925-2009) —
also known as Leo E. Jackson —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., December
20, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of New London, Conn., 1979-80.
African ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in New London, New London
County, Conn., May 24,
2009 (age 83 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Clinton Everett Knox (1908-1980) —
also known as Clinton E. Knox —
of New York.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., May 5,
1908.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Dahomey, 1964; Haiti, 1969-73.
African ancestry.
Died in 1980
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first
Black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis; married, September
26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker. |
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Reginald C. Lindsay (1945-2009) —
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March
19, 1945.
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1993-2009; died in office 2009.
African ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
12, 2009 (age 63 years, 358
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sharon McPhail (born c.1950) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., about 1950.
Lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1993, 2005 (primary), 2009 (primary).
Female.
African ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; NAACP.
Still living as of 2009.
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Raymond Paul Moore (b. 1953) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1953.
U.S.
District Judge for Colorado, 2013-.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2017.
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Deval Patrick (b. 1956) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 31,
1956.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Massachusetts, 2007-15; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 2008
(member, Platform
Committee; speaker).
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2015.
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Edward R. Redd —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1988.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 1988.
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Jack E. Robinson III —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Republican. Airline
executive; founder, Oceanic Digital Communications (provider of cell
phone service in the Caribbean); Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 2000, 2009 (primary); candidate for
secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 2002; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 2006.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
16, 1834.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869-71; Labor Reform candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1871; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1883.
African ancestry.
First
Black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1886 (age 51 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Silas F. Taylor —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Danville,
Va.
Democrat. Druggist;
member of Massachusetts
Democratic State Committee, 1928-48; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Massachusetts; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
African ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Michael Wayne Walker —
also known as Michael Walker —
of Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1988,
1988.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 1988.
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Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899-1990) —
also known as Clifton R. Wharton —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 11,
1899.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Monrovia, as of 1927-29; U.S. Consul in Las Palmas, as of 1932-38; Ponta Delgada, 1945-47; U.S. Minister to Romania, 1958-60; U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1961-64.
African ancestry.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., April
25, 1990 (age 90 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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