1940-50s 1960-70s

Jessie Parkhurst Guzman

She continued the cataloging at Tuskegee Institute begun by Monroe Work. Her database of the lynching records goes uncited, but has been used by nearly every modern scholar to name those murdered.

  • She was young once:

    At age 17 she was attending her first semester at Howard University

  • Occupation:

    Teacher, Researcher, Dean, Director

  • Image credit:

    Tuskegee University Archives

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1950 photograph of Mrs. Jessie P. Guzman