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- The abolitionist AND early feminist whose “Ain’t I A Woman” speech silenced hecklers at the National Women’s Suffrage Convention was Sojourner Truth in 1852 in Ohio.
- The United Negro College Fund was chartered in 1944 in New York. It was and still is for raising money to aid African American Colleges.
- Ethiopia was conquered by Italy in 1935. The British battled Italy to free the country during WWII and by mid-1941, Ethiopia was once again independent.
- In 1848, the people who opposed the SPREAD of slavery were called Free-Soilers. They were in favor of outlawing slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
- Crippled as a child, Wilma Rudolph became the FIRST African American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympiad. She won the medals in track events at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
- The FIRST black woman to practice law in the state of Mississippi was Marian Wright Edelman.
- In 1973, the Children’s Defense Fund was organized by [once again] Marian Wright Edelman.
- Humpfrey H. Reynolds invention of an ‘improved’ window ventilator made passengers more comfortable in 19th century trains.
- The huge waterfall in Africa called “the Smoke That Thunders” is the Victoria Falls. Discovered by David Livingstone in 1855, they were named for Queen Victoria.
- Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey and Charles Deslandes led slave rebellions in the south. Prosser in Richmond, VA, Deslandes in New Orleans and Vesey in Charleston, SC.
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