Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814 – January 11, 1904) was an American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was arguably...

lucrative, yet boundary crossing and entwined, relationship with Mary Ellen Pleasant that may have complicated Bell's personal life, while it also helped...

American academic administrator and teacher Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), American photographer Mary Ellen Pleasant (1815–1904), American entrepreneur, financier...

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...

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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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...

American football coach Mary Ellen Pleasant (died 1904), American abolitionist Ray Pleasant (1928-2022), American politician Reggie Pleasant (born 1962), American...

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...

momentum. Another important figure that helped to pay for the raid was Mary Ellen Pleasant. She donated $30,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023), saying...

Representatives, Glen Ellen is in California's 5th congressional district, represented by Republican Tom McClintock. Mary Ellen Pleasant, Abolitionist, Entrepreneur...

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...

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...

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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Minnesota Press). Short stories 2004: Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant (City Lights Publishers). Novel 1998: The Store of a Million Items...

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...

Recent research has also highlighted the substantial contribution of Mary Ellen Pleasant, an African American entrepreneur and abolitionist, who donated $30...

and eventually opened up her own gambling parlor. Entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, who called herself a "capitalist", used the vast wealth she accumulated...

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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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...

acknowledged her mixed race origins. Mary Ellen Pleasant, born to a slave and the youngest son of James Pleasants, contributed to advancing the abolitionist...

governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846. Mary Ellen Pleasant c. 1814–1904 U.S. African American entrepreneur, real estate investor...

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...

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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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...

The City of San Francisco commissioned a ceramic plaque honoring Mary Ellen Pleasant who ran the San Francisco terminus of The Underground Railway and...