Black History #1

"Moses of her People", 300 slaves to freedom, Underground Railroad, 19 trips, freed own parents, stamp in her honor.

• Phillis Wheatly

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

• Madame C.J. Walker

Built first clock, astronomer, photographic memory, planned layout for Washington DC

• Jean Baptiste DuSable

• Benjamin Banneker

• Harriet Tubman

• Matthew Henson

• Underground Railroad in Kenosha

Refused to give up seat on "white only" railroad car, editor of Memphis newspaper Free Speech, co-founder of NAACP

• Ida B. Wells

• Sojourner Truth

• Matthew Henson

• George Washington Carver

• Dodge Family

Fur-trapper, trading post grew into Chicago, good relationships with Native groups.

• Harriet Tubman

• Underground Railroad in Kenosha

• Benjamin Banneker

• Jean Baptiste DuSable

• George Washington Carver

Developed over 300 products from peanuts, taught southern farmers, taught at Tuskegee University, offered jobs from Henry Ford and Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Banneker

• Harriet Tubman

• Madame CJ Walker

• George Washington Carver

• Matthew Henson

Purchased by a family, learned to read and write, gifted poet during the Revolutionary War

• Matthew Henson

• Ida B. Wells

• Harriet Tubman

• Dadge Family

• Phillis Wheatly

Skilled navigator, first American to reach the North Pole, Congressional Medal of Honor

• Ida B. Wells

• Matthew Henson

• Harriet Tubman

• Benjamin Banneker

• George Washington Carver

First family in Kenosha, son of Henry, Antione fought in Union Army, 14 children, Simmons Mattress Compony

• Sojourner Truth

• Benjamin Banneker

• Dodge Family

• Underground Railroad in Kenosha

• Ida B. Wells

Two "stations", in Library Square, smuggled aboard wheat ships on Lake Michigan, Liberty Association

• Dodge Family

• Sojourner Truth

• Underground Railroad in Kenosha

• Harriet Tubman

• George Washington Carver

Effective speaker, speeches on slavery and women's rights, Isabella Baumfree, "Ain't I a Woman?"

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet

  Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

• Phillis Wheatly

• Jean Baptiste DuSable