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The story of Elizabeth Freeman was featured in season 1, episode 4, of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Freeman's lawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, is the fourth great-grandfather of Kyra Sedgwick, one of the guests of the episode. [21]
Jones said over the weekend he has been in a years-long romantic relationship and shared a home with bankruptcy attorney Elizabeth Freeman, who had been a law clerk for him. Until recently ...
After the Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman (known also as Mum Bett), a slave in Massachusetts, filed for her freedom in the County Court of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. This case set a state precedent, based on the ruling that slavery was irreconcilable with the new state constitution of 1780.
As a lawyer, Sedgwick, Sr. represented Elizabeth ("Mumbet") Freeman, who had been a slave for forty years, [4] and won her freedom. Mumbet came to live as a servant in the Sedgwick household, and Susan Sedgwick painted her portrait (watercolor on ivory). [5] Sedgwick's sister-in-law was Catharine Sedgwick (1789–1867), also a novelist. Before ...
Frankie Muse Freeman: 1916 2018 United States: civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights: Fannie Lou Hamer: 1917 1977 United States: leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party: Marie Foster: 1917 2003 United States
Last month, attorneys representing Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — who Giuliani defamed in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election — asked a federal judge in ...
An elderly Nevada man looking for love was allegedly drugged and pushed across the US border into Mexico in a wheelchair by a “sinister” scammer before being found dead in a Mexico City hotel ...
Elisabeth Freeman (September 12, 1876 – February 27, 1942) was a British-born American suffragist and civil rights activist, best known for her investigative report for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the May 1916 spectacle lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, known as the "Waco Horror".