J. R. Clifford
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J. R. Clifford was West Virginia's first African-American attorney. Clifford was also a newspaper publisher, editor and writer, school teacher, and principal. He was a Civil War veteran, grandfather,
Niagara Movement leaders W. E. B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J. R. Clifford, Lafayette M. Hershaw, and Freeman H. M. Murray at Harpers Ferry.
Lafayette M. Hershaw
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Lafayette M. Hershaw was an American journalist, lawyer, and a clerk and law examiner for the United States General Land Office of the United States Department of the Interior. He was a key intellectu
J. R. Clifford
…won for her the salary, totaling $121.00. Niagara Movement Niagara Movement leaders W. E. B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J. R. Clifford, Lafayette M. Hershaw, and Freeman H. M. Murray at Harpers Ferry. Clifford was one of the founding members of the Niagara Movement, which was organized and led by W. E. B…
Women at the 1906 Niagara Movement Conference at Harper's Ferry: Mrs. Gertrude Wright Morgan (seated) and (left to right) Mrs. O.M. Waller, Mrs. H.F.M. Murray, Mrs. Mollie Lewis Kelan, Mrs. Ida D. Bailey, Miss Sadie Shorter, and Mrs. Charlotte Hershaw.
Gate City School was first held in the basement of Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta
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