This is the grave of Jack Johnson. Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Jack Johnson was the greatest challenge to white manhood in the Gilded Age. He left school as a teen, wandered around a bit, ended up in Dallas, and found work as a...
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This is the grave of Andrew Goodman. Born in 1943 in New York, he grew up in a liberal Jewish family committed to social justice issues. After spending a short.
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson. What to say about Jackson that hasn't been said? Not much. He's had a lot of ink spilled on him and you all.
This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair's father would become Kentucky's attorney general after the family moved to Frankfort when he was a child. Blair went to Transylvania University and then was...
This is the grave of Chester Arthur. Born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. A minister's son, the family moved around a lot in his early years, finally settling in Schenectady,.
This is the grave of William Pinkney Whyte Born in Baltimore in 1824, Whyte was named for his grandfather, former attorney general William Pinkney, who served under James Madison. However,.
This is the grave of Frank Steunenberg. Born in 1861 in Keokuk, Iowa, he went to college at Iowa State and then went into the newspaper business, taking a job as a reporter with the Des Moines Register. He worked at that for awhile, then...
This is the grave of Bob Bullock. Born in Hillsboro, Texas in 1929, Bullock received a B.A. from Texas Tech in 1955, after serving in the Korean War. He then.
This is the grave of Martha Smith. I don't know anything about Smith. She's not a particularly globally important figure. But I thought this was a worthy way to have.
This is the grave of Henry McNeal Turner. Born in 1834 in South Carolina to free blacks, Turner had ambition from a young age. Teaching black people, slave or free, was illegal in that state. Turner was apprenticed to a cotton planter, making his condition...
This is the grave of Ogden Mills. Born in 1884 in Newport, Rhode Island to the toniest of the Gilded Age elite, Mills grew up with all the luxury and.
This is the grave of Lillian Wald. Born in 1867 to a middle-class and secular Jewish family in Cincinnati, Wald's family moved to Rochester in the late 1870s. She applied.