Martin Delany
African American topics History Atlantic slave trade African-American history Slavery in the United States History in agriculture African-American military history Jim Crow laws Great Migration Redlining Second Great Migration Afrocentrism Post–Civil Rights era Civil Rights Movement 1865–1895 1896–1954 1954–1968 Culture African-American studies African-American art Black mecca Black schools Black colleges and universities Juneteenth Kwanzaa Literature Museums Music Neighborhoods Religion Religion in Black America Black church Black liberation theology Black theology Nation of Islam Political movements Pan-Africanism Black Power Anarchism Capitalism Conservatism Leftism Nationalism Populism Black Panther Party Garveyism Civic / economic groups Rights organizations National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) National Urban League (NUL) Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Thurgood Marshall College Fund National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) The Links National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) TransAfrica Forum Sports Negro league baseball Athletic associations and conferences Central (CIAA) Southern (SIAC) Mid-Eastern (MEAC) Southwestern (SWAC) Ethnic subdivisions Black Indians Gullah Igbo Languages English American English African American Vernacular English Gullah Louisiana Creole French Diaspora Nova Scotia Liberia Sierra Leone France Lists African Americans African-American firsts (First mayors US state firsts) Landmark African-American legislation African American-related topics Topics related to Black and African people Category: African American African American portal v t e Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, arguably the first proponent of black nationalism; Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of Black nationalism. He was also one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School. Trained as an assistant and a physician, he treated patients during the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, when many doctors and residents fled the city. He worked alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star. Active in recruiting blacks for the United States Colored Troops, he was commissioned as a major, the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. After the Civil War, he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in the South, settling in South Carolina, where he became politically active. He ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor and was appointed a Trial Judge. Later he switched his party loyalty and worked for the campaign of Democrat Wade Hampton III, who won the 1876 election for governor.