Nina Simone

Nina Simone

female, deceased (2003)
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked...
Abel Meeropol

Abel Meeropol

male, deceased (1986)
Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986) was an American writer best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, under which he wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange...

Lillian Smith

female, deceased (1966)
Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel "Strange Fruit" (1944). A white...
Thomas Shipp

Thomas Shipp

male, deceased (1930)
Thomas Shipp was an African-American who was lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana along with Abram Smith. They had been arrested the night...
Abram Smith

Abram Smith

male, deceased (1930)
Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp were lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and...
Robert Meeropol

Robert Meeropol

male, 62 years old
Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius, an electrical engineer,...
Monica Arac de Nyeko

Monica Arac de Nyeko

female, 30 years old
Monica Arac de Nyeko (born 1979) is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays. She was educated at Makerere University and the...
Ivy Meeropol

Ivy Meeropol

female, 41 years old
Ivy Meeropol is a producer and director of documentary films and television series, a screenwriter, a journalist, and a writer of fiction. She...
Kellita Smith

Kellita Smith

female, 40 years old
Kellita Smith (born July 11, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and model Kellita Smith was born in the city of Chicago in 1969. In...