Commemorated on 2 plaques
Martin R. Delany (1812-1885). 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.
5 PPG Place, 3rd Ave. & Market St., Pittsburgh, PA, United States where they worked near
Martin Delany (1812-1885). Delany was an influential abolitionist, civil rights activist, Army officer, and prominent physician. The son of an enslaved father and free mother received his education in Chambersburg. He went on to publish an anti-slavery newspaper, 'The Mystery.' He worked along with Frederick Douglass to champion freedom and later became the first commissioned African American officer in the United States Army.
566 S. Main St., Chambersburg, PA, United States where they was