W. H. C. Stephenson (c.1825 – April 6, 1899) was a doctor, preacher, and civil rights activist in Virginia City, Nevada, and Omaha, Nebraska. He was probably the first black doctor in Nevada and worked for the rights of blacks in that city. He was noted for his efforts in support of black suffrage in Nevada at the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. He helped found the first Baptist church in Virginia City. He moved to Omaha in the late 1870s and continued his medical, religious, and civil rights work. He founded another Baptist church in Omaha, and was a prominent Republican and activist in the city.
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| - W. H. C. Stephenson (c.1825 – April 6, 1899) was a doctor, preacher, and civil rights activist in Virginia City, Nevada, and Omaha, Nebraska. He was probably the first black doctor in Nevada and worked for the rights of blacks in that city. He was noted for his efforts in support of black suffrage in Nevada at the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. He helped found the first Baptist church in Virginia City. He moved to Omaha in the late 1870s and continued his medical, religious, and civil rights work. He founded another Baptist church in Omaha, and was a prominent Republican and activist in the city. (en)
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| - Herbalism
- Nebraska Republicans
- People from Virginia City, Nevada
- Republican Party (United States)
- Rhode Island
- Virginia City, Nevada
- Marysville, California
- Sacramento, California
- William R. Gamble
- 1866 Civil Rights Act
- 19th-century African-American activists
- Edwin R. Overall
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Comstock Lode
- Silver City, Nevada
- Emanuel S. Clenlans
- John Lewis (Nebraska activist)
- 1825 births
- 1899 deaths
- Activists for African-American civil rights
- Lynching of Julia and Frazier Baker
- Cyrus D. Bell
- Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Gold Hill, Nevada
- People from Omaha, Nebraska
- Eclectic medicine
- Zion Baptist Church (Omaha, Nebraska)
- Philadelphia
- St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Omaha, Nebraska)
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Omaha)
- Philip Alexander Bell
- Territorial Enterprise
- Washington, D. C.
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| - W. H. C. Stephenson (c.1825 – April 6, 1899) was a doctor, preacher, and civil rights activist in Virginia City, Nevada, and Omaha, Nebraska. He was probably the first black doctor in Nevada and worked for the rights of blacks in that city. He was noted for his efforts in support of black suffrage in Nevada at the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. He helped found the first Baptist church in Virginia City. He moved to Omaha in the late 1870s and continued his medical, religious, and civil rights work. He founded another Baptist church in Omaha, and was a prominent Republican and activist in the city. (en)
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