The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-14

HONORABLE JOHN {. pANcY = Editor and Leeder-
(iss7-l92o- attended Howard University where
he became teacher when he was only II years old -.
After serving in the Treasury Department, he assumed
charge of the public schools in Iarboro Dancy
also an active writer politician and religious worker
Presidents Harrison and Mckinley appointed him
Collector of Internal Revenue and President Roose-
welt made him Recorder of Deeds . Dancy lectured
extensively in England Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
WILLIAM MONROE rRorrER-Fsmovs Worker for EqveI
Rshis-fI -1rouer the FIRST Negro mem
Der of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa After entering
the real estate business in Boston. he published and
edited The Boston CHardiaB-today one of the Oldest
and most influential Negro publications in the United
States In 1918 Trotter sent 10 Paris TO file
petition with the World Peace Conference in the inter-
est OF the Coored World Democracy Congress And he
conducted hearings before the United States Senate re-
garding additional covenants in the League of Nations
DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS = Lecturer Poet = Orator
was a famous contributor TO the
rich background of Negro history literature oratory
and religion He published number of celebrated
poems. and wrote Negro history which was used as
text in Richmond public schools In 1000 the Gen.
trail Lyceum Bureau in New York engaged his services
for months reading tour, using his own selections
ELIAs c. MoRRIs-Leader in Edveusion and Religion
(is55-i922l-One of the most illustrIous Negro edu
cationa and religious leaders was Elias {. Morris
He established and edited the first religious paper pub
lished by Negroes in Arkansas and founded the
Arkansas
National Education Convention joined the Foreign
Mission Convention form the National Baptist
Convention of the United States in 1895, Morris
elected presdent-a position he held until his DEATH
ALEXANDER srRcEYvIcH pusHKIN Greatest OF the
Rvssan Poeis-tI7oe-is37l After completing his edu
the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarkoe Selo. Russia
Pushkin became clerk in the Ministry OF Foreign
Affairs A revolutionary movement resulted in his
banishment TO a colonizing bureau in South Russia
. The life in Bessaraba. the Crmea and Odessa slim
ulated him. and there followed the most productive
years of his life lie became noted for dramatic
well as lyric poetry. Three OF his most eminent works
are Ergeni OHegin, Boris GodHnow and The Bronze
HoremaH.
JOHN Willis MINARp-Firss Negro 70 Make q speech
in Congress Menard attended iberia College In
1862 he appointed TO a clerkshp in the Depart
of the Interior-the first Colored man TO hold
New Orleans, where he held several impressive pot-
ica positions and published newspaper called The
Radical Standard A few years later when Menards
election Congress contested he spoke in his de-
Tense before that body This the first time Negro
had ever delivered speech in Congress.
JOHN MERRIcK Pioneer In Business - fisse-ieie)-
Foremost among the businesses Merrck organized
the Mechanics and Farmers Bank in Durham Ito
day the largest Negro bank in the world, with
sources of million dollars) and the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (which in
1885 employed l,l53 persons throughout the United
States
WILLIAM s. SCARBOROUGH An ovisfandins Negro
fdvsotor q ss4-is26l-Dr. w. S. Scarborough was
noted for his impressive contributions Greek liter
ature well his fascinating articles about Negro
folk graduate of Oberlin he al one time was
president Of Wilberforce University, Of the lead
ing Negro schools Of the day.
FRANCOIS DOMINIQUE ToUssAINT-soI disr--ssasssman
: Marty = q 743-ioo3l loussant was the military
chieftan and statesman of Haiti who gave the Negro
his first independent government in any land beyond
the bounds of Africa After successful insurrecton
in 1901, he gave Santo Domingo a constitution by
which he assumed supreme authority and the privilege
Of naming his successor "A year later he seized
while in conference aboard French vessel and was
taken dungeon at Joux France. lie died of pneu-
monia in 1903. The valor of Toussaint was cele-
brated in prose and poetry wadsworh a sonnet
Whittier longer poem; and Wendell Phillips made
him the subject of brilliant address
lott CARRY first American Missionary - Asrieu---
ti7so-te2el- January 49, 1920 momentous day
in the life Of Lon Carey, great Christian pioneer for IL
then the age of 40 that he sailed for Sierra
Leone as the FIRST American Missionary 20 Africa.
He was born a slave in Richmond, Va, IN 1850.