George Washington Williams: Layton Cemetery, Blackpool #3

'GEORGE

WASHINGTON

WILLIAMS

AFRO-AMERICAN

HISTORIAN

1849–1891'

George Washington Williams was born in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania. In 1874, he became the first African American to graduate from Newton Theological College. Supported by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, he founded the monthly journal The Commoner in Washington D.C., publishing eight issues. His most noted works are A History of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion and The History of the Negro Race in America 1619–1880.

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