Pioneers in ProtestPeople listed: Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Bananeker, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm, David Walker, Nat TUurner, Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, John Brown, Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, William Monroe Trotter, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois. |
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... began in 1791 , and another on the sharp upswing in the free black population in towns and cities , men of power began enacting discriminatory legislation . The freedom of black people was severely restricted . They could not walk on ...
... began in 1791 , and another on the sharp upswing in the free black population in towns and cities , men of power began enacting discriminatory legislation . The freedom of black people was severely restricted . They could not walk on ...
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... began during the Revolutionary War , marked a fundamental turning point in the relationship of black men to America . Black men everywhere were lifted up and exalted by the revolutionary rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence ...
... began during the Revolutionary War , marked a fundamental turning point in the relationship of black men to America . Black men everywhere were lifted up and exalted by the revolutionary rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence ...
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... began working in his father's tannery . Not long after that he married Dianthe Lusk , the plain , pious daughter of a local widow . Six years later , in 1826 , the young couple moved to Randolph ( now New Richmond ) , Pennsylvania ...
... began working in his father's tannery . Not long after that he married Dianthe Lusk , the plain , pious daughter of a local widow . Six years later , in 1826 , the young couple moved to Randolph ( now New Richmond ) , Pennsylvania ...
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ROUSE THE DAWN Crispus Attucks | 3 |
THE STARGAZER Benjamin Banneker | 13 |
COLONIAL CATALYST Prince Hall | 29 |
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