African Descent Archives - Page 13 of 65

Roberta Byrd Barr

Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality.

Esther Hall Mumford

Esther Hall Mumford is a Seattle researcher, a writer, a publisher and an authority on the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

An accomplished painter and muralist, her background in the arts framed her response to problems as varied as how to reduce youth violence, protect the environmental quality of the Mercer Island Slough, and improve the financial viability of Seattle city-owned arts facilities.

Ellen Craft

William and Ellen Craft were an enslaved couple from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring, novel, and very public escape in December 1848.

Wyomia Tyus

The first person to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash.

Barbara Earl Thomas

The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”

Dr Dorothy Mann

American public health expert, consumer advocate, and civic activist

Patricia Roberts Harris

First African-American woman to serve as a US Ambassador

Zaida Ben-Yusuf

Ben-Yúsuf was one of the “New Women” who joined the paid labor force in the 1890s. She was in the vanguard of women who became professional photographers as magazines reached massive circulation figures, and photographs supplanted drawn illustration art.