The Henrietta Vinton Davis Memorial Foundation
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DID YOU KNOW???Henrietta Vinton Davis was a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen years? Henrietta Vinton Davis debuted as an actress and dramatic reader in 1883...three years before the birth of Marcus Garvey and was introduced on the stage by Frederick Douglass? Henrietta
Vinton Davis was the ranking member of the UNIA-ACL and executive
of the Black Star Line on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Yarmouth with a cargo worth upwards of $5,000,000 in
1920? Henrietta Vinton Davis is described in the Holy Piby as being one of three apostles of African Redemption with Marcus Garvey and Prince Robert Lincoln Poston? Henrietta Vinton Davis died in 1941, is buried in Harmony Memorial Cemetary in Lanham, Maryland and there is no marker on her grave ? August 25th is Henrietta Vinton Davis Day? You can help us spread the word about the life and legacy of this remarkable woman and place a marker on her grave. email us!
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