William Jacob Knox Jr.
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William Jacob Knox Jr. was an American chemist at Columbia University in New York City and one of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project. Knox held an unprecedented p
New Knox Headshot
First edition of Knox's grandaunt's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Trinity Test, the result of the Manhattan Project
Edenton, North Carolina
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The town of Edenton is located on the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina, United States, in the Inner Banks region. It is the county seat of Chowan County. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census.
William Jacob Knox Jr.
…Jacob Knox Sr., a US postal worker, and Estella Briggs. William Sr. had a slave heritage as his grandfather, Elijah Knox, was an enslaved carpenter in Edenton, North Carolina. Elijah's eldest child was Harriet Jacobs, the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. According to family tradition, William…
Downtown Edenton Waterfront
Beverley Hall, Edenton, 1937
Former high school, later elementary school, today Swain Apartments, 101 Court Street
Old Customs House, Edenton