Martin R. Delany Marker

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Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Martin R. Delany
(1812-1885)

Martin R. Delany Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Mike Wintermantel, April 27, 2011

1. Martin R. Delany Marker

Inscription. A promoter of African-American nationalism, Delany published a Black newspaper, The Mystery, at an office near here. He attended Harvard Medical School, practiced medicine in Pittsburgh, and was commissioned as a major in the Civil War.

Erected 1991 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location. 40° 26.364′ N, 80° 0.193′ W. Marker is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County. Marker is on 3rd Avenue near Market Street, on the right when traveling east. Click for map. Located across 3rd Avenue from the plaza at PPG Place. Marker is in this post office area: Pittsburgh PA 15222, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. John Scull (within shouting distance of this marker); Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (about 300 feet away, in a direct line); Work Accidents and the Law (about 400 feet away); Westinghouse Electric Corporation (approx. 0.2 miles away); Historic Site in Journalism (approx. 0.2 miles away); Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Radio Station KDKA (approx. ¼ mile away); The King's Garden (approx. 0.3 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Pittsburgh.

Also see . . . Martin R. Delany - Behind the Marker. (Submitted on July 7, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)

By Mike Wintermantel, April 27, 2011

2. Martin R. Delany Marker

By Mike Wintermantel, April 27, 2011

3. Martin R. Delany Marker

PPG Place in background

Martin R. Delany Photo, Click for full size

By Unknown

4. Martin R. Delany

Major Martin Robinson Delany Photo, Click for full size

By Unknown, circa 1865

5. Major Martin Robinson Delany

An outspoken abolitionist who cofounded the North Star newspaper with Frederick Douglass in 1848, Pittsburgh’s Martin Delany in the 1850s became the nation’s leading advocate of black Americans emigration back to Africa. The highest ranking African-American officer during the American Civil War, Delany in 1879 published his last major work, Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, in which he extolled the virtues of the black race and their contributions to civilization.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG. 95.46

Credits. This page originally submitted on April 27, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 278 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 27, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 5. submitted on July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.