Sunday, February 28, 2021

Blackstone Waterhouse (ca. 1844--?)

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Portrait courtesy of the Arkansas state archives.    An early African American legislator from Arkansas, Blackstone Waterhouse represented J...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Monday Floyd (ca. 1803--?)

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                                                                                                           From the Georgia Official Registe...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Sancho Sanders (?--?)

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From the composite of radical members of the South Carolina legislature, 1868.    Sancho Sanders was, like Syfax Milton, a freedman who ente...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Syfax Milton (?--1910)

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From the Watchman and Southron, January 29, 1910.   A Reconstruction-era black legislator from South Carolina, Syfax Milton served three ter...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Vanzetti Morris Hamilton (1927-1991)

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From the Battle Creek Inquirer, July 15, 1963.   A pioneer black lawyer in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Vanzetti Hamilton was a graduate of Wayne St...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Eristus Sams (1913-1990)

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Portrait from Ebony Magazine, November 1975.   February is Black History Month and with that comes a month-long theme of curiously named Afr...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Aladar Hugo Hamborsky (1892-1954)

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From the South Bend Tribune, October 31, 1926.   The first native Hungarian to be profiled here on the site, Aladar Hugo Hamborsky settled i...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Amorine Montgomery Wilson (1882-1966)

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From the Sullivan County Times, October 29, 1948.    Featured on this site's Facebook page back on May 28, 2019, Amorine Montgomery Wils...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Iden Salathiel Romig (1865-1947)

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Portrait from the South Bend Tribune, March 3, 1947.   The Strangest Names In American Political History makes its first stop in Indiana for...