Famous Black Americans

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Famous Black Americans

• By Dominique
• For Mrs. Reed\Mrs.Pope

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Walter Sammons

• Walter Sammons,a Black man, invented the comb in
  1920.

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Lydia O. Newman

• Lydia O. Newman, a Black female, invented the
  brush in 1898.

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John Love

• John Love, a Black man, invented the pencil
  sharpener in 1874.

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William Purvis

• William Purvis, a Black man, invented the
  fountain pen in 1884.

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Lee Burridge

• Lee Burridge invented the type writing machine in
  1945.

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Martin Lurther King Jr.

• Martin was a smart man because he graduated when
  he was only 19 years old.
• Martin King is the mostly the only reason us
  black and white people are together,and other
  people too.
• Martin was born on Jan. 15,1929 in
  Atlanta,Georgia.
• Martin died on April 4, 1968 in Memphis,
  Tennessee.

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Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of
  all the Underground Railroad's "conductors."
  During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the
  South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.
  And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick
  Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost
  a single passenger.

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Harriet Tubman

• Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester
  County around 1820. At age five or six, she began
  to work as a house servant. Seven years later she
  was sent to work in the fields.

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Harriet Tubman

• While she was still in her early teens, she
  suffered an injury that would follow her for the
  rest of her life. Always ready to stand up for
  someone else, Tubman blocked a doorway to protect
  another field hand from an angry overseer. The
  overseer picked up and threw a two-pound weight
  at the field hand. It fell short, striking Tubman
  on the head. She never fully recovered from the
  blow, which subjected her to spells in which she
  would fall into a deep sleep.

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Fredrick Douglass

• Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost
  leaders of the abolitionist movement, which
  fought to end slavery within the United States in
  the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant
  speaker, Douglass was asked by the American
  Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of
  lectures, and so became recognized as one of
  America's first great black speakers.

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Fredrick Douglass

• He won world fame when his autobiography was
  publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan
  publishing an antislavery paper called the North
  Star.

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Fredrick Douglass

• Douglass served as an adviser to President
  Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought
  for the adoption of constitutional amendments
  that guaranteed voting rights and other civil
  liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a
  powerful voice for human rights during this
  period of American history and is still revered
  today for his contributions against racial
  injustice.

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Pledge of Allegiance

• In September 1892, The youths Companion magazine
  published a short patriotic oath by Francis
  Bellamy.The oath was written for students to
  recite on Columbus Day. It was sent to many
  schools and soon became a morning tradition. In
  1942 Congress officially recognized the Pledge of
  Allegiance. Today, millions of students across
  the country still recite these words at the start
  of each school day.

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Francis Bellamy

• I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
  states of America, and to the republic for which
  it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,
  with liberty and justice for all.