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- 731: Christopher Columbus
- ... American population. Columbus had benevolent contributions, but the persecution of Native Americans does and should not condone him from his faults. Native Americans were doomed by European arrogance, brutality, and infectious diseases. Columbus' gift was slavery to those who greeted him. Columbus' arrival to the New World, set in motion a destruction of the world he entered.
- 732: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... because they did not possess the intelligence and skills of whites. A great man decided to fight for equality between blacks and whites. His name was Booker Taliaferro Washington. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on James Burrough s Virginia Plantation in 1856. When he was 9 he was gathered with the other slaves and was told he could go freely due to the Emancipation Proclamation. After he was freed ...
- 733: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... would become the sole minister plenipotentiary at the French court. He then wrote the second part of his autobiography and by 1787 he had been elected President of Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Later on that year he was a delegate at the Constitutional Convention and made the closing speech. In 1788, he made his last will and testament and began the third part of his autobiography. Benjamin ...
- 734: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... returned home to Philadelphia in 1785 at the age of 79. The next year he became President of Pennsylvania for three years. He also became active in the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1787 at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin, age 81, was too weak to stand, but he used his life's knowledge to bring ...
- 735: Benjamin Franklin
- ... this life, Franklin suffering from many ailments of old age. He often had to be literally carried to the meetings. He was later elected as president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Ben Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84.. After a fine public funeral from the city, he was buried next to his wife in Christ Church Cemetery of Philadelphia.
- 736: Benjamin Banneker
- ... a document that stated, all men are created equal even though he himself owned slaves. Banneker believed that wasn t right. So, Mr. Bannekar sent a letter in which he expressed his strong feelings against slavery and praised the intellectual equality of blacks. Benjamin Bannekar strongly felt that all men no matter what color should have the right to an education. Bannekar made one of the first attempts at ending racism ...
- 737: Alice Walker
- ... Movement. She contemplated the fact that black women had been suppressed for so long that they would never know what kind of great artists they may have lost during all the times while there was slavery. This is what the short story In Search of Our Mother s Gardens discusses. The title has a special meaning because Walker is referring to her own mother. In this work, she discusses all the ...
- 738: Thomas Jefferson
- ... on his times equaled by few others in American history. Born on April 13, 1743, Jefferson was the third child in the family and grew up with six sisters and one brother. Though he opposed slavery, his family had owned slaves. From his father and his environment he developed an interest in botany, geology, cartography, and North American exploration, and from his childhood teacher developed a love for Greek and Latin ...
- 739: Daniel Webster
- ... Webster to leave the cabinet in May 1843. The annexation of Texas in 1845 and the resulting war with Mexico, both opposed by Webster, forced the country to face the issue of the expansion of slavery. Webster opposed such expansion but feared even more a dissolution of the Union over the dispute. In a powerful speech before the Senate on Mar. 7, 1850, he supported the COMPROMISE OF 1850, denouncing Southern ...
- 740: Booker T. Washington
- ... and social segregation if whites would encourage black progress in economic and educational opportunity. Hailed as a sage by whites of both sections, Washington further consolidated his influence by his widely read autobiography Up From Slavery *menu.html* (1901), the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900, his celebrated dinner at the White House in 1901, and control of patronage politics as chief black advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt ...
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