Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is an ordained Baptist minister who serves as assistant pastor for special projects at Cambridge’s Union Baptist Church. Cheryl was born in Boston in 1947 to Murray and Eve-lyn Townsend. The family soon moved to Putnam...
Saundra Graham 1941–2023 We are saddened by the news of Saundra’s passing on June 23, 2023. Please join us in honoring her memory as an ardent community organizer, visionary leader, proactive public servant and staunch defender of human rights. The first Cambridge...
Gertrude Wright Morgan An honored member of the women’s suffragette movement. Morgan was active in the Niagara Movement and the establishment of the NAACP. She served as president of the Women’s Era Club, was a member of the board of the Harriet Tubman House and was...
Charles LeRoy Gittens The first African-American Secret Service Agent. Charles LeRoy Gittens (August 31, 1928 – July 27, 2011) was an American United States Secret Service agent. Gittens joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency’s first African...
Frederick Arthur Robinson First Black Police Officer & Sergeant. Frederick Arthur Robinson, one of four children, was born in August 1852 in Annapolis, Nova Scotia to Richard T. Robinson and Isabella Gordon, both of English descent. The Robinson family moved from...
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