Huntsville Revisited- Peter Humphries Clark

During the next four years, he participated in the Ohio Convention of Colored Men, and edited and published his own newspaper. He was appointed secretary of the 1853 National Convention of Colored Men, by Frederick Douglass. In 1854 he married Francis Ann Williams. In 1857 he was rehired by the black trustees of the colored schools and made principal of the Western District School in Cincinnati. He became principal of Gaines High School in 1866 and held that post until 1886, when he was fired on political grounds. He left Cincinnati in 1887 to serve as principal of the Alabama State normal and Industrial School in Huntsville, and in 1888 went to St. Louis where he taught at the segregated Sumner High School for twenty years. In 1878 he ran for congress on the Socialistic Labor Party ticket.
William H. Hampton