Benjamin Banneker African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer, and almanac author by Dale Ricardo Shields “The color of the skin is in no way connected with the strength of the mind or intellectual powers.” A self-taught mathematician and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker was probably the most accomplished African American of America’s colonial period. Born: November 9, 1731, Baltimore …
MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS “I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now.“ Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She joined the faculty in 1998 and has expertise in 20th-century political history, feminist theory, and race and the law. “Special Assistant to the Provost for …
John Hope Franklin American historian, Educator, and Civil Rights Activist [1915-2009] by Dale Ricardo Shields “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;” ― John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 …
_____________________________________JUNETEENTH DALE RICARDO SHIELDS Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now …
