Jacob C. White Jr.
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Jacob C. White Jr. was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. Born to a successful and influential businessman, White received the finest education afforded to African American
White in 1902
Friend and fellow rights activist, Octavius Catto, co-founded the Philadelphia Pythians with White.
Emilie Davis
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Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her pe
Jacob C. White Jr.
…death in 1902. Jacob White Jr. was born to Jacob White Sr. and Elizabeth White in 1837. His brother was George Bustill White and his sister-in-law was Emilie Davis. He was raised at 100 Old York Road in Jenkintown, a predominantly white neighborhood 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Philadelphia. According to an 1866…
Front cover of Davis's 1863 diary