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Benjamin Banneker’s Letter To Thomas Jefferson
Letter Referred to in the Foregoing Memoir. Maryland Baltimore County, Near Ellicotts' Lower Mills, August 19th, 1791 Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State. Sir: I am fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion, a...
Jefferson’s Response
Jefferson's Response TO BENJAMIN BANNEKER. I J. mss. PHILDELPHIA Aug. 30. I79I. SIR,-I thank you sincerely for your letter of the 19th instant and for the AImanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to...
FORTY ACRES AND A MYTH
The True Story by Ricardo Guthrie Few slogans have had greater significance or affected African Americans more deeply than the call for "forty acres and a mule." In 1991, the average Black man or woman is only vaguely familiar with the historical reference--and if...
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was the first Black woman to head a federal agency, National Youth Administration. She was the founder of Bethune Cookman College and held many important government positions under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman. by Sharon...
GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL
The Military man of the Hour by Elizabeth Singleton More than 400,000 American soldiers are in the Saudi Arabian Gulf at this time. Morale among the troops was reported high, the climate in the Middle East is violent, and American emotions mixed about continued U.S....
DR. CARTER G. WOODSON
THE FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY Black History Is No Mystery is deicated to the memory of Dr. Carter G. Woodson who is known as the Father of Black History. He is the guiding light in the preservation of the records of black people. The need for recording the suffering...