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Benjamin Banneker's legacy, contributions to Black history live on in Baltimore County
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black ... Not to be lost in Banneker's brilliance was his activism for civil rights and those still in chains by way ...
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Banneker's letter to Jefferson
On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter ... and unavoidably led" to develop a discourse on race and rights. Banneker made it a point to "freely and Cheerfully acknowledge ...
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Benjamin Banneker's Almanac
click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner ...