Draft:Scholars

John Mercer Langston Timothy Thomas Fortune


 * Samuel E. Lacy Samuel Erskine Lacy? father of Samuel H. Lacy S. I. story: "Henry Erskine Lacy, was the first black detective on the Washington police force. His father, Samuel Erskine Lacy, was a researcher in a law office, a rare position of responsibility for a black man in the early part of this century."
 * R. L. Smith
 * H. R. McIlwaine

H. A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace not the one linked presumably not Henry Agard Wallace

former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives during Reconstruction Wrote about Reconstruction era politicians?


 * John H. Rainy
 * Judge William J. Whipper
 * Charles B. Purvis
 * Norris Wright-Cuney

https://books.google.com/books?id=FEKdAAAAMAAJ&dq=h.a..wallace+page+south+carolina+house+of+representatives&pg=PA296

This is good source https://books.google.com/books?id=uc-nDwAAQBAJ&dq=h.a..wallace+page+south+carolina+house+of+representatives&pg=PR29