19th Century Important Figures

Martha Bailey Briggs:
Service in the Preparation of Schoolteachers
William Wells Brown:
First African American novelist
William Bush:
The Most Active
Underground Railroad Assistant
Seargeant William H. Carney:
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Paul Cuffe:
Master Mariner
Frederick Douglass:
Man of Freedom
Amos Haskins:
Master Mariner
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson:
Preeminent Abolitionist
Jeremiah Burke Sanderson:
An Active Proponent of the Cause
Lewis Temple:
Innovator of the Whaling Industry
Thomas H. Jones: Antislavery Movement
Lewis Hayden
“A Prince Among Us”
Daniel Drayton
A noble man and generous spirit
Anna Douglass
Wife of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs Writer
Activist
Dr. Thomas Bayne (Samuel Nixon)
Surgeon Dentist
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Educator
Amelia Piper
Abolitionist
Rev. William Jackson
Activist, Freedom Fighter
Clarissa Davis
Activist, Freedom Fighter

20th Century Important Figures

Alfred Gomes:
Law and Activism Pioneer
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
Educator, Architect, Social Activist
John P. “Joli” Gonsalves
Singer, community activist, folklorist
Manuel E. Costa, Sr.
Civil Rights Activist
Private Joseph J. Monte
WWI Veteran