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Elder, Lonne III

Elder was born one of five children in Georgia, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was a baby. He was orphaned by the age of 10 and went to live with an aunt and uncle. During se... [more]

Equiano, Olaudah

Olaudah was an Igbo from Nigeria, captured by a slaver when he was about 11 and transported first to the West Indies, then Virginia and finally to England, all in the space of about a year.... [more]

Fisher, Florence Anna

Fisher (she has reverted to her birth name) spent 20 years, from the age of 22, searching (successfully) for her birth parents in the face of nearly total official and family opposition. H... [more]

Garrison, William Lloyd

Garrison was born, his parents' fourth child, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His father deserted the family before he was three (he never saw him again) and after a few years, when his moth... [more]

Iti, Tame

Iti was taken as a baby to be a tamaiti whangai of Hukarere and Te Peku Purewa, who had 14 children born to them and fostered 26 others, including Iti's birth father. Activism in support... [more]

Jackson, Jesse

Jackson was born to an unmarried woman. His birth father was her next-door neighbor, but he was married with children and had very little contact with Jesse. His mother married when he was ... [more]

Johnson, Nkosi

Johnson was born Xolani Nkosi to South African parents infected with HIV, and he was born infected. When he was two he was taken from his mother who by now was too ill to care for him, and ... [more]

Jones, David Ivon

Jones was orphaned as a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was a boy. He contracted tuberculosis as a child and as a teenager he emigrated... [more]

Langston, John Mercer

Langston was born free, the son of a freed slave and a plantation owner, but he was orphaned by the age of five. He was then raised in both white and Black families and was well educated at... [more]

Li Lu

Li Lu was one of the leaders of the Chinese student democracy movement which culminated in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. His parents were victims of the Cultural Revolution: when he was a ... [more]

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