Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
1 January 1868 – 27 June 1936 Grand Chairman, Pullman Porters Benefit Association of America Perry Parker began working for the Pullman company as a porter in Cincinnati at around the age of 25. He worked as a porter and later as a confidential inspector (or investigator) for the company for 27 years, retiring in […]
Emma Wedde Kramp 24 August 1877 (unknown) – 27 February 1905 (Chicago) Richard Otto Kramp 5 August 1878 (Michrow, Prussia) – May 1964 (Chicago) Emma L. Giese Raum Kramp 3 August 1877 (Chicago) – 9 December 1935 (Chicago) This is the kind of discovery I love as a researcher, even though the discovery is pretty […]
7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas but when she was only six weeks old, her parents moved to Chicago during the Great Migration. Brooks would call Chicago home for the rest of her life. She had one sibling, a brother a year younger. Her father had aspired […]
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman 26 January 1892 (Atlanta, Texas) – 30 April 1926 (Jacksonville, Florida) Also known as “Queen Bess” Today is the 95th anniversary of Bessie Coleman’s death. Coleman was a trailblazing aviator who was the first Black woman and first Native-American to hold a pilot’s license and the first Black person and first Native-American […]