Born in Decatur, Alabama, in 1893, James Blaine Cashin was the youngest of Herschel Vivian Cashin and Minnie Virginia Cashin’s seven children. Herschel Cashin, himself a distinguished lawyer and Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives during Reconstruction, was widely regarded as ‘one of the fathers of the Reconstruction in Alabama.’  James Cashin graduated from Fisk University in 1916 […]

Charles Henry Carroll was born May 10, 1877, in Tazewell, Virginia, to Charles H. and Bettee Carroll, who was already widowed by 1880. He attended Virginia State College and went on to earn a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1906, where he was among the medical school’s first Black graduates.  A pioneering African American […]