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Arnold P. Abbott (b. 1924) —
of Jenkintown, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., April
12, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1964,
1968.
Jewish.
Member, United
World Federalists; NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Melvin M. Rosenbloom and Rebecca (Marcy) Rosenbloom; married, June 20,
1948, to Charlotte Ruth Brody. |
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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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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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Samuel Ralph Harlow (1885-1972) —
also known as S. Ralph Harlow —
of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey;
Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1885.
Socialist. Congregationalist
minister; college
professor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1932, 1934, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, League
for Industrial Democracy; NAACP; American
Association of University Professors; American
Federation of Teachers; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Died in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
21, 1972 (age 87 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow; married,
February
1, 1912, to Marion Stafford; married to Elizabeth (Kaufmann)
Grigorakis. |
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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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Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) —
also known as Alfred B. Lewis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 20,
1897.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
secretary of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate
for Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1944; vice-president, later
president, Union Casualty insurance
company.
Episcopalian.
Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Federation of Teachers; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died about 1980 (age about 83
years).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield County, Conn.
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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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