Freeman Henry Morris Murray
Freeman Henry Morris Murray (Freeman H. M. Murray)- (September 22, 1859 - February 20, 1950) was a champion civil rights activist, intellectual, journalist, the first black art historian, author and religious leader in Alexandria, Virginia and Washington D.C. He was co-founder of the New Era Building Association (Alexandria, VA), of the Niagara Movement and Horizon Magazine, of the NAACP, and Crescent Amusement, Inc., among other black organizations. He founded the Murray Bros. Printing Company, the Murray Palace Casino, and the Home News and the Washington Tribune newspapers. He promoted black business enterprises and black home-ownership, opposed Jim Crow laws, anti-lynching and established a post-Civil War underground railroad.