Monday, August 25, 2008 - Events

TRIBUTE TO LADY HENRIETTA VINTON DAVIS
Aug 25, 2008 all day
Location: National Harmony Memorial Park
Description: A MEMORIAL ON THE OCCASION OF LADY DAVIS’ 148TH EARTHDAY10:00AM Livication Service at National Harmony Memorial Park3:00PM -6:00PM Program at Martin Luther King Library room A-47:00PM Rally at UNIA Liberty HallLady Henrietta Vinton DavisShakespearean Actor, Elocutionist, Dramatic Reader, UNIA International Organizer, Black Star Line Vice PresidentHenrietta Vinton Davis born August 25, 1860 Baltimore, Maryland, joined the ancestors on November 23, 1941 in Washington, DC.An only child, her father, Mansfield Vinton Davis was a musician who passed away when she was very young. Her mother Mary Ann Davis married influential Baltimorean George Alexander Hackett. Hackett passed away when Davis was 9 years old. She and her mother then moved to Washington, DC.Davis schooled in Washington until the age of 15. She became a schoolteacher in Maryland. Eventually, she went to work at the DC Recorder of Deeds in 1878 before Frederick Douglass.Her desire for a theatrical career inspired her to study un
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