Topics Related to Civil Rights

Robert Lee Vann 1879-1940 (A-85)

African American editor, lawyer, and civil rights advocate. Led Pittsburgh Courier, 1910-1940. He was born 4 miles east.

Harriet Jacobs c. 1813-1897 (A-72)

Fugitive slave, writer, & abolitionist. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) depicts her early life. Lived in Edenton.