Civil rights figure Graves & Memorials

Homer Plessy was a New Orleans resident and central figure in the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson wh...

Thomas Mundy Peterson (1824–1904) of Metuchen became the first African American voter under the 15th Amendment and is ...

Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (1858–1931) was a Camden native whose struggle as one of the first African-American cadets a...