Black and Education

Black and Education

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  • A Brave and Gallant Soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill
    In June of 1775, Revolutionary forces got word of a British plan to capture
    high areas around Boston in an effort to squash the Colonial uprising.
    Colonial forces, made up of about 1,000 men from Connecticut and
    Massachusetts marched to an area on the Charlestown peninsula to lay claim
    to this area before British troops could get there.
    Colonial leaders hoped to fortify an area called Bunker Hill. So on the
    night of June 16, 1775, Revolutionary forces marched to the Charlestown
    peninsula to set up a fortified area, in anticipation of the British
    advancement.
    4 min
  • Biddy Mason: An American Pioneer
    Biddy Mason was born, enslaved, in Hancock, Georgia in 1818. Her owner,
    Robert Smith, later moved to Mississippi where he became acquainted with
    the Mormon religion. The mid-1800s were a tumultuous time in American
    politics and 1850 was an important year, in many ways.
    Unbeknownst to Biddy Mason, decisions being made about California and Utah
    were about to have a significant impact on her life.
    5 min
  • George Thomas Downing (1819 - 1903)
    George Thomas Downing was born in 1819, in New York City. His father was
    the well-known businessman, Thomas Downing. Thomas Downing moved to New
    York, in the early 1800s, and eventually opened up what would become a very
    successful business—a restaurant called the Oyster House
    5 min
  • The Red Summer and "If We Must Die"
    In 1919 more than 20 different racially violent events took place
    throughout the United States, from May of 1919 to October of 1919. The
    events were so violent that this time span became known as the “Red
    Summer.”
    NOTE: THE CONTENT OF THIS POST IS VERY GRAPHIC.
    7 min
  • Benjamin Banneker: A Renaissance Man & an Abolitionist
    Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in what is today Baltimore
    County, Maryland.
    According to accounts his grandmother, Molly Welsh, was a white English
    woman who was sent to the American colonies as an indentured servant.
    After serving her indentured time, she was able to obtain her own
    property—which was a remarkable thing for a woman to do in the late 1600s.
    She then purchased enslaved people to work her land...she ended up buying
    two human beings—one of whom was said to be the son of an African king,
    whose name was Bannaka.
    7 min
  • Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis: An Activist
    Charles Burleigh Purvis was born in 1842 in Philadelphia, PA. His father
    was the well-known abolitionist, Robert Purvis, and his mother was Harriet
    Forten. She was the daughter of the well-known African-American activist
    and businessman, James Forten. Yes, Charles Purvis was Jame Forten’s
    grandson.
    4 min
  • Mary Touvestre: Civil War Intelligence
    Some 200,000 African Americans served in the Civil War as soldiers and
    sailors, but not much is known about the many men and women who provided
    intelligence to the Union, during the war. Mary Touvestre was one such
    person.
    Mary Touvestre was a free (formerly enslaved) housekeeper of a Confederate
    engineer, during the Civil War. Before the war, the U.S. Navy had a
    significant naval base in Norfolk, VA. When the war began, the military
    ordered the destruction of ships in that base, so that they wouldn't fall
    into enemy hands.
    4 min
  • President of the Confederacy: His Last U.S. Senate Speech
    On January 21, 1861 Jefferson Davis rose on the Senate floor to explain why
    the state of Mississippi decided to secede from the Union—it would be his
    last speech as a U.S. Senator. After sharing some thoughts about
    nullification and secession and expressing his support for secession, even
    if a northern state decided to do so, he went on to explain:
    “It has been a conviction of pressing necessity, it has been a belief that
    we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers
    bequeathed to us, which has brought Mississippi into her present decision.
    She has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and
    equal, and this made the basis
    4 min

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