Hiram H. Thweatt
*Hiram H. Thweatt was born on this date in 1864. He was a Black activist, educator, and music administrator.
Hiram H. Thweatt was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. He worked at the Tuskegee Institute as their choir director. And as a "School Teacher" in the 1900 Census, as was their wife, Janice. He was the President of the Waycross chapter of the NAACP in 1918, which prevented lynchings in the area.
A collection of NAACP papers in the Library of Congress reveals that Thweatt wrote a special letter on October 26, 1918, to Walter F. White, national leader of the NAACP, detailing the lynching of a teenager named Sandy Ray in Waycross. He died on January 15, 1937.
