Recorder of deeds or deeds registry is a government office tasked with maintaining public records and documents,especially records relating to real estate ownership that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over that property.
The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington,D.C.,United States,by a merger of the National Federation of Afro-American Women,the Woman's Era Club of Boston,and the Colored Women's League of Washington,DC,at the call of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. From 1896 to 1904 it was known as the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). It adopted the motto "Lifting as we climb",to demonstrate to "an ignorant and suspicious world that our aims and interests are identical with those of all good aspiring women." When incorporated in 1904,NACW became known as the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC).
Anthony Overton Jr.,was an American banker and manufacturer. He was the first African American to lead a major business conglomerate.
William Tecumseh Vernon was an American educator,minister and bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who served as president of Western University beginning in 1896 and Register of the Treasury from 1906 to 1911.
William "Dizzy" Dismukes was an American pitcher and manager in Negro league baseball and during the pre-Negro league years. He was born in Birmingham,Alabama,where his father Isaac Lee Dismukes was a deacon in a Baptist church. He knew from the time he was a youth that baseball was his first love,and he dropped out of school to follow his dream of becoming a baseball player.
Charles Henry James Taylor (1857–1899),was an American journalist,editor,lawyer,orator,and political organizer. An early supporter of Democratic Grover Cleveland,he was appointed Minister to Liberia in Cleveland's first presidential term.
Harrison J. Pinkett was a journalist and civil rights activist in Washington DC and then a lawyer in Omaha,Nebraska. As a journalist,he was the head of the so-called "Press Bureau" and often used the bureau's collective pen name,"P.S. Twister". In 1907,at the recommendation of friends in the NAACP,he moved to Omaha where he frequently worked in civil rights. He served as a first lieutenant in the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I and frequently defended the rights of black soldiers.
Lafayette M. Hershaw was a journalist,lawyer,and a clerk and law examiner for the General Land Office of the United States Department of the Interior. He was a key intellectual figure among African Americans in Atlanta in the 1880s and in Washington,D.C.,from 1890 until his death. He was a leader of the intellectual social groups in the capital such as Bethel Literary and Historical Society and the Pen and Pencil Club. He was a strong supporter of W. E. B. Du Bois and was one of the thirteen organizers of the Niagara Movement,the forerunner to the NAACP. He was an officer of the D.C. Branch of the NAACP from its inception until 1928. He was also a founder of the Robert H. Terrell Law School and served as the school's president.
Millard Filmore Singleton was an African-American political leader and civil servant in Omaha Nebraska. He was an officer in the Omaha Colored Republican Club and the Omaha branch of the National Afro-American League. He held posts as Justice of the Peace,storekeeper in the United States Internal Revenue Service,recorder of deeds for the city,and as bailiff of the municipal court.
Richard W. Thompson was a journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington,D.C. He was at various times an editor or managing editor of the Indianapolis Leader,the Indianapolis World,the Indianapolis Freeman and the Washington D.C. Colored American. He was published as a general correspondent in The Colored American,The Washington Post,the Indianapolis Freeman,the Indianapolis World,Atlanta Age,Baltimore Afro-American Ledger,the Cincinnati Rostrum,the Charleston West Virginia Advocate,the Philadelphia Tribune and the Chicago Monitor. His longest-lasting relationship was with the Indianapolis Freeman. In 1896,the black paper,The Leavenworth Herald,edited by Blanche Ketene Bruce,called Thompson the "best newspaper correspondent on the colored press."
Thomas P. Mahammitt was a journalist,caterer,civil rights activist,and civic leader from Omaha Nebraska. He was owner and editor for the black weekly,The Enterprise,Omaha's leading black paper at the turn of the 20th century. He was also an active leader in the Masons and the Boy Scouts and was named "Omaha's most distinguished Negro citizen" in 1934.
Cyrus Dicks Bell was a journalist,civil rights activist,and civic leader in Omaha,Nebraska. He owned and edited the black newspaper Afro-American Sentinel during the 1890s. He was an outspoken political independent and later in his life became a strong supporter of Democrats. He was a founding member of the state Afro-American League and frequently spoke out against lynchings and about other issues of civil rights.
George F. Franklin was a journalist and civic leader in Omaha,Nebraska,and Denver,Colorado. He owned and published two African-American newspapers,The Enterprise in Omaha,and The Denver Star in Denver. He was active in civil rights and was a member of the Nebraska branch of the National Afro-American League.
The history of African-Americans in Omaha in the 19th Century begins with "York",a slave belonging to William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who came through the area in 1804,before the city existed. African-Americans have lived in the Omaha area since at least 1819,when fur traders lived in the area.
Victor B. Walker was a soldier,political activist,lawyer,civil rights activist,police officer,saloon owner,journalist,and gangster in the Old West,particularly in Omaha,Nebraska,and in Denver,Colorado,at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Before coming to Omaha,he was a Buffalo soldier on the frontier,and when he first arrived in the city,he worked as a police officer. For a short time,he owned the Omaha saloon,The Midway,a center of gambling and criminal activity in the city. As well as a working as defense lawyer,he worked for civil rights and was a member of the Omaha Afro-American League,a civil rights organization in the city.
Spottswood Rice was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County,Missouri. The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners. Later,he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri,New Mexico,and Colorado. In 1882,he founded the first AME church in New Mexico.
Inman E. Page was a Baptist leader and educator in Oklahoma and Missouri. He was president of four schools:the Lincoln Institute,Langston University,Western University,and Roger Williams University and principal of Douglass High School in Oklahoma City. He and George Milford were the first black students at Brown University.
Bela Metcalfe Hughes was an American lawyer,businessman and politician. Hughes played an important role in connecting the American West to the rest of the country with stagecoach lines,as well as in the early legal development of Colorado.
Arthur Glenn Froe was an American lawyer and politician. He was appointed by President Warren G. Harding as the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia,and served in this position from 1922 to 1930 during the presidential administrations of Harding,Calvin Coolidge,and Herbert Hoover.
