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William Watkins - The Fight for Black Mobility: Traveling to Mid . . . On February 24, 1853, Watkins delivered his “Our Rights as Men” speech before a Boston legislative committee requesting to form an independent militia of Black citizens (Link to speech) Watkins also chastised white abolitionists in his lectures for their reluctance to treat Blacks as equals 6
William Watkins - Wikipedia William Watkins (architect) (1834–1926), English architect William Lane Watkins (1852–1929), first black doctor to graduate from Boston University Medical School William Gregory Watkins (1869–1959), British architect W P Watkins (William Pascoe Watkins, 1893–1995), English co-operator and writer
Reverend William Watkins - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at 200 Watkins used the pseudonym “The Colored Baltimorean” to speak against the institution of slavery and oppose Black emigration to countries such as Haiti He published in Black newspapers such as The Liberator and The Genius of Universal Emancipation
1951: William Watkins, one man’s life and death On this date in 1951, William Watkins hanged for drowning his eleventh child An execution that was barely noticed in its time and would be nigh-forgotten today, it’s revived in all its messy humanity in a book titled Execution: One Man’s Life and Death
A Tribute to Bill Watkins by W. F. Santiago-Valles As a Cal-State Los Angeles student in the 1960s, Watkins was among the radical group of Black students, influenced by Nelson Peery, organizing the Communist League [CL] in Watts during 1968, publishing The People’s Tribune, emphasizing both the centrality of class racialization and the application of Marxist social theory to the concrete
The William H. Watkins Award - Society of Professors of Education This award honors Dr William H Watkins and his commitment to freedom and self-determination through over 40 years of educational activism and scholarship focused on the lived experiences of the African diaspora in the United States