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Lives remembered, and the companions who shared them.

In Memory of
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 - 1941 - Dover, Delaware, United States
She classified more stars than anyone who has ever lived, and the system she built is still the one astronomers use. It is not named after h...
In Memory of
Bessie Coleman
January 26, 1892 - April 30, 1926 - Atlanta, Texas, United States
No American flight school would take her, so she learned French. Bessie Coleman was born on 26 January 1892, the daughter of George and Sus...
In Memory of
Corporal Freddie Stowers
1896 - September 28, 1918 - Sandy Springs, South Carolina, United States
The paperwork was filed in 1918. The medal was pinned in 1991. He had been dead for seventy-three years. Freddie Stowers was born in Sandy ...
In Memory of
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
June 17, 1865 - September 18, 1915 - Walthill, Nebraska, United States
She came home from medical school to be the only doctor for more than twelve hundred people spread across hundreds of square miles, and she ...
In Memory of
Garrett Augustus Morgan
March 4, 1877 - July 27, 1963 - Cleveland, Ohio, United States
He had six years of school. He held the patent on the thing that got the men out. Garrett Augustus Morgan was born on 4 March 1877, sometim...
In Memory of
Homer Plessy
March 17, 1863 - March 1, 1925 - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
His name is on one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever handed down, and no photograph of him is known to exist. Homer Plessy was ...
In Memory of
Isaac Burns Murphy
1861 - 1896 - Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Isaac Burns Murphy won forty-four percent of the races he rode. That figure appears on his gravestone marker, in every encyclopedia, and in ...
In Memory of
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 - 1919 - Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
She was born on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana on 23 December 1867, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who had both been enslaved on that grou...
In Memory of
Owney, the Railway Mail Dog
1888 - June 11, 1897 - Albany, New York, United States
A stray terrier fell asleep on a pile of mailbags in the Albany post office around 1888, and spent the next nine years riding the trains. R...
In Memory of
Sergeant Alvin C. York
1887 - 1964 - Pall Mall, Tennessee, United States
He tried not to go. Alvin Cullum York was from Pall Mall, Tennessee, in the Cumberland foothills — a place with more hollows than roads. He...
In Memory of
The Delany Family of Raleigh
1858 - Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
A man born into slavery in 1858 raised ten children on a college campus, and two of his daughters lived long enough to tell the whole story ...
In Memory of
The Hubbell Family of Ganado
1878 - 1967 - Ganado, Arizona, United States
One family stood behind the same counter for eighty-nine years, and it is still a working trading post. John Lorenzo Hubbell was born at Pa...

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