19th Century Important Figures

Dr. Thomas Bayne (Samuel Nixon)
Surgeon Dentist
Martha Bailey Briggs:
Service in the Preparation of Schoolteachers
William Wells Brown:
First African American novelist
Seargeant William H. Carney:
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Paul Cuffe:
Master Mariner
Clarissa Davis
Activist, Freedom Fighter
Anna Douglass
Wife of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass:
Man of Freedom
Daniel Drayton
A noble man and generous spirit
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Educator
Amos Haskins:
Master Mariner
Lewis Hayden
“A Prince Among Us”
Jane Ador Major Jackson
Activist, Freedom Fighter
Rev. William Jackson
Activist, Freedom Fighter
Mary J. “Polly” Johnson:
Preeminent Abolitionist
Thomas H. Jones:
Antislavery Movement
John Mashow (1805- 1893)
Master Shipbuilder & Designer
Amelia Piper
Abolitionist
William B. Powell Jr.
Physician
Jeremiah Burke Sanderson:
An Active Proponent of the Cause
Lewis Temple:
Innovator of the Whaling Industry
Harriet Jacobs Writer
Activist
William Bush:
The Most Active
Underground Railroad Assistant

20th Century Important Figures

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