A group gathered in the west side of downtown Savannah to honor John Lewis, former Georgia U.S. Representative and civil rights activist, on the fifth anniversary of his death.

Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 of this story. David Ruggles and the Tappan brothers, Lewis and Arthur, were three men with Brooklyn connections who were devoted to the cause of abolition in the 1830s.

The Blackout Murder of Livye Lewis On Oct. 31, 2020, at around 5 a.m. Livye Lewis was found unresponsive in her car on the side of a road in Hemphill, Texas.

After his Manhattan silk house went to the wall in the panic of 1837, Lewis Tappan, casting around for a new deal, hit on the idea of selling his knowledge of other people's businesses. His ...

Everyone should know about him, he was an important and great American. David Ruggles, the Tappan brothers, and many of Brooklyn’s known and unknown valiant anti-slavery warriors are part of a ground ...