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Samuel Green: The African American Underground Railroad agent who helped Harriet Tubman

Meserette KentakeFebruary 28, 2016April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 28, 2016April 15, 20180

Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated anti-slavery activist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by...

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Marian Anderson: Legendary African American Contralto

Meserette KentakeFebruary 27, 2016June 10, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 27, 2016June 10, 20200

“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.” Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated...

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Remembering Trayvon Martin

Meserette KentakeFebruary 26, 2016July 15, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 26, 2016July 15, 20200

Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in...

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Ann Lowe: The African American Fashion Designer Who Created Jacqueline Kennedy’s Wedding Dress

Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016December 26, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016December 26, 20200

Ann Cole Lowe was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe’s one-of-a-kind designs were a favorite among high society matrons from...

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James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching

Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016January 6, 2019

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 25, 2016January 6, 20192

[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...

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The Last Days of Malcolm X

Meserette KentakeFebruary 21, 2016August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 21, 2016August 16, 20200

“I’ve been marked for death within the next five days.” By early 1965 most of Malcolm’s closest friends were afraid for his safety. They believed...

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Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement

Meserette KentakeFebruary 20, 2016June 11, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 20, 2016June 11, 20200

Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The farm was...

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Crawford Goldsby: The Outlaw known as Cherokee Bill

Meserette KentakeFebruary 18, 2016August 24, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 18, 2016August 24, 20200

Crawford Goldsby was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of seven men (including his brother-in-law), he and...

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William Sanders Scarborough: The first African American classical scholar

Meserette KentakeFebruary 16, 2016April 15, 2018

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 16, 2016April 15, 20181

[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam Sanders Scarborough is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery, Scarborough became a world-respected scholar of Greek...

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Moneta Sleet Jr.: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist

Meserette KentakeFebruary 14, 2016August 24, 2020

by Meserette KentakeFebruary 14, 2016August 24, 20200

Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of the...

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