Suffragist, abolitionist, devoted daughter, wife, mother; and property owner Her life’s work is indeed remarkable. Her grave marker, while bearing only brief words of her life force, is a tangible link between the past, the present, and the future as we work...
In February 1860 he was the 1st Black to sit as a juror in B.C. Peter Lester moved with his wife Nancy and five children to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1850, where he was appalled to find that slavery was still a fact of life in the free state of California. In...
