Following Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Weeks of Ancestors themes, the US Black Heritage Project will be featuring and working on two of our notables each week who fit that theme.
John Morton Finney (cc7=9) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned eleven academic degrees. He was fluent in French, Latin, Greek, and Spanish, and conversant in German and Portuguese, so if anyone could handle a translation, it would be John!
(We're hoping to find a copyright free photo of John)
Lorenzo Dow Turner (cc7=279) was a linguist who researched the Gullah language of the Low Country of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. He was head of the English departments at Howard University and Fisk University and created the African Studies curriculum at Fisk.
During this week you can help us with any of the following?
- Connect John Morton Finney to the Tree. Every profile helps!
- Find a copyright free photo for John or ask an organization who has a photo if we can repost it on his profile.
- John needs an expanded biography.
- Add additional categories and stickers that might apply to both profiles.
- Make sure all the attached family for both who should have the {{African-American Sticker}} have it on their profiles.
