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William Syphax was a dedicated man who strove to create equality between the races and relentlessly challenged policies that he felt were unjust. He was a vocal advocate for the desegregation of public schools, for example, and promoted the integration of residential communities. William Syphax died on June 15, 1891, at the age of sixty-six. The book was donated by Mary Gibson Hundley, the ...
Mary Gibson Hundley (18 October 1897 – 1986) was an educator and civil rights activist from Baltimore, Maryland. She was born to lawyer Malachi Gibson and teacher Mary Matilda Syphax. Through her mother's side of the family, she is a descendant of Martha Washington and the granddaughter of William Syphax, the namesake of the William Syphax School in Washington D.C. She is also a relative of ...
27. Juli 2021 · The story of the Syphax family starts with Charles Syphax. Born around 1790, Charles was the son of an enslaved woman at Mount Vernon and a free Black preacher, William Anderson Syphax.
Mary Gibson Hundley, educator and civil rights activist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 18, 1897, the daughter of Malachi Gibson, a lawyer, and Mary Matilda Syphax, a teacher. On her mother's side, MGH was a descendant of Martha Custis Washington and granddaughter of William Syphax, first superintendent of Colored Public Schools of ...
William Syphax (c. 1825 — June 15, 1891) was born into slavery but manumitted when he was about one year old, along with his mother Maria Carter Syphax and sister. As a young man, he became a U.S. government civil servant in Republican administrations, and built a network in the capital city.
17. Apr. 2014 · William Syphax, a trustee for Washington and Georgetown schools in the late 1800s was an early proponent for integrated schools. The school closed in the early 1990s and now the townhouses that ...
