Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Martin Delany
Born: May 6, 1812
Died: January 24, 1885 (aged 72)
Bio: Martin Robison Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard Medical School.
Known for:
- Blake or The Huts of America
- Origin of Races And Color (1879)
- Martin R. Delany