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    Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814 – January 11, 1904) was an American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was arguably...
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  • Bell's father had been an associate of African-American businesswoman Mary Ellen Pleasant, and with her assistance he had built a fortune of $30 million ($1...
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  • American academic administrator and teacher Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), American photographer Mary Ellen Pleasant (1815–1904), American entrepreneur, financier...
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    Records. Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen Pleasant) might have been the first, their wealth is not as well-documented...
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    lucrative, yet boundary crossing and entwined, relationship with Mary Ellen Pleasant that may have complicated Bell's personal life, while it also helped...
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  • 2008–09 Life on Mars Maya Daniels 5 episodes 2013–14 Drunk History Mary Ellen Pleasant and Rosa Parks 2 episodes 2014–15 The Red Road Sky Van Der Veen 7...
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  • served in the Atlantic to end the slave trade. A fugitive slave named Mary Ellen Pleasant had come to San Francisco in 1852 aboard the steamer Oregon. Initially...
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  • shot and stabbed her. The novel 1993: Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Jamaican Author Michelle Cliff includes a character named Annie...
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  • American football coach Mary Ellen Pleasant (died 1904), American abolitionist Ray Pleasant (1928-2022), American politician Reggie Pleasant (born 1962), American...
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  • including owner Thomas Bell and his co-inhabiting business partner, Mary Ellen Pleasant, who had designed much of the mansion in real-life. Teresa Clingnan-Harris...
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    Representatives, Glen Ellen is in California's 5th congressional district, represented by Republican Tom McClintock. Mary Ellen Pleasant, Abolitionist, Entrepreneur...
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  • of Mary Ellen Pleasant Derrick Beckles on the story of Mark Twain Natasha Leggero on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst Cast: Lisa Bonet as Mary Ellen Pleasant...
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  • assets, mostly real estate. $100,000 of this was owned by two people: Mary Ellen Pleasant ($30,000) and a partner of hers, Richard Barber ($70,000). George...
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  • California Gold Rush. She is mentioned alongside Luzena Wilson and Mary Ellen Pleasant among the women who managed to profit among the miners of the Gold...
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    Massachusetts only by mob violence.": 269  Origins of the American Civil War Mary Ellen Pleasant Emerson, Jason (Fall 2009). "The Secret Six". American Heritage Magazine...
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  • Minnesota Press). Short stories 2004: Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (City Lights Publishers). Novel 1998: The Store of a Million Items...
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    May John Berry Meachum Mary Meachum William M. Mitchell Solomon Northup John Parker Elijah F. Pennypacker Mary Ellen Pleasant John Wesley Posey Amy and...
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    Recent research has also highlighted the substantial contribution of Mary Ellen Pleasant, an African American entrepreneur and abolitionist, who donated $30...
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    the first archbishop of San Francisco. One of its first donors was Mary Ellen Pleasant, a famed Black Catholic philanthropist who gave the school roughly...
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  • acknowledged her mixed race origins. Mary Ellen Pleasant, born to a slave and the youngest son of James Pleasants, contributed to advancing the abolitionist...
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    Wendell Phillips (American) James Shepherd Pike (American), journalist Mary Ellen Pleasant (American) John Wesley Posey (American) Gabriel Prosser (insurrectionist...
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    founder of first commercial vineyard and winery in Napa County Mary Ellen Pleasant, 19th-century African American entrepreneur and abolitionist "Don...
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    Ten years later in 1829 Pleasants married Mary Massie, with whom he had one child. Black civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant claimed to be his daughter...
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  • included Elizabeth Jennings Graham in New York, Charlotte L. Brown and Mary Ellen Pleasant in San Francisco, Ida B.Wells in Memphis, Tennessee and Robert Fox...
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    found. Hill's expenses were primarily bankrolled by her friend, Mary Ellen Pleasant, an elderly black entrepreneur. The lawsuit propelled Hill into the...
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    and eventually opened up her own gambling parlor. Entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, who called herself a "capitalist", used the vast wealth she accumulated...
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  • EyeMail Inc. Walter P. Lomax Jr., founder of Lomax Health Systems Mary Ellen Pleasant, real estate magnate Henry A. Tandy, founder Tandy&Burns stone masonry...
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  • Formerly enslaved and free Black women like Mary Church Terrell, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Tubman, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Maria W. Stewart advocated...
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    Macon's Pleasant Hill Historic District). During his time in Savannah, Lissner also helped found the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, in...
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  • Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba (1795–1874) – businesswoman Mary Ellen Pleasant (between 1814 and 1817–1904) – entrepreneur and human rights activist...
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