Daisy Lampkin

When Daisy Lampkin arrived in Pittsburgh in 1909, she brought a passion for social justice and civic engagement. As a member of the Lucy Stone League, she organized tea parties and street-corner speeches for African American women to engage with the suffrage movement. Lampkin went on to serve in national roles for the National Association of Colored Women, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of Negro Women, and other civil rights organizations. She also became a vice president of the Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company and was deeply involved in the work of the newspaper.