... services to destitute women and children in Philadelphia. Dr. Rebecca Cole practiced medicine for fifty years. Then there is Roger Arliner Young. She was the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in zoology, after years of juggling research and teaching with the burden of caring for her invalid mother. Her story is one of grit and perseverance. Roger Arliner Young grew up in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. In ... Newport Jazz Festival-in a program she requested to be all gospel. Her voice carried God's Word into churches, prisons, hospitals, castles, parliaments, and to the Wh...

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... when he left his wife and children. Rachel relied on the charity of her relatives on Saint Croix to survive after she was deserted. In a short time she had enough money to buy a small house. She opened the house up into a store. Also, for another source of income she rented out slaves which she had inherited from her mother. Both of her children worked in the store ... . James Hamilton Jr. found work as an apprentice to a carpenter, however and Alexander got a job with a trading firm called Beckman and Cruger. Alexander had hardly any formal schooling and he spent many hours reading his m...

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Sojourner Truth was born a slave named Isabella Baumfree sometime in 1797 in Ulster county, New York. The exact date of her birth is to this day unknown, but it is believed to have been sometime during the fall. She developed her characteristics of courage and dependability from her mother, Mau Mau Bett, at an early age. Isabella was first owned by a Dutch named Charles, who was happened ... more slaves for his New York plantation. He always bragged that Isabella was the hardest working slave on the plantation. Seeing this, he forced her to marry a fellow slave known as Tom. Isabella gave bir...

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... of the American Revolution (DAR), who owned the Hall, because she was black, denied the request. Eleanor Roosevelt, who sat on the board of the DAR, resigned her membership in protest over this decision and other prominent women followed suit. Mrs. Roosevelt then arranged a concert for Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, which was attended by 75,000 people on April 9th, Easter ... campaign could have been better fought. The thousands of soldiers who never returned from the mud of Italy's battlefields are as much a testament to Allied ignorance as to their own courage and bravery. US Army ...

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... the U.S. government. David Crockett also known as Davy; was notorious for his courage and leadership in the war, as an American frontiersman. He too, was a politician and became a legendary figure. How are two men that seem so different in life, liberty and character comparable? The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Narrative of the Life of David Crockett are both their own ... men that he referred to as his "master". Slavery robbed him and many other African Americans of their childhood and lives. He met with his mother a few times as a very young boy, until her sick ...

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