Famous Black Americans. African Americans have played a vital role in the. An. important part of the curriculum at the Institute for African.

American Studies is devoted to creative research on the lives and. African Americans and to placing them within. On this page you will find brief.

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African American. Benjamin Banneker. Although he spent nearly his entire life on one farm, Banneker. African Americans were viewed. Federalist and Jeffersonian periods of American. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Banneker was the. He had little formal education, but.

At 2. 1, he built a clock with. After the death of. Self taught in. the fields of astronomy and surveying, he assisted in the survey. Federal Territory of 1. Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Epheremis. He retired from tobacco.

He corresponded. with Thomas Jefferson and urged Jefferson to work for the. Sojourner Truth. 17.

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Sojourner Truth, a nationally known speaker on human rights for. Isabella Baumfree, a slave in Hurley. New York, and spoke only Dutch during her childhood. Sold and. resold, denied her choice in husband, and treated cruelly by her. Truth ran away in 1.

After her freedom was bought for $2. New York City in 1. African. Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. In 1. 85. 3, she helped form a.

The Kingdom," at Sing Sing. New York, which was soon disbanded following the death and.

Truth was implicated in the scandal. After the death of her son, she took the name Sojourner Truth. She set out on June 1, 1. First. she attended religious meetings, then began to hold meetings.

As she logged. mile after mile, her fame grew and her reputation preceded her. Truth's popularity was enhanced by her biography written by the.

Olive Gilbert, with a preface written by William. Lloyd Garrison. In 1. White House, where. President Abraham Lincoln personally received her. Later she. served as a counselor for the National Freedman's Relief. Association, retiring in 1. Battle Creek, Michigan.

Harriet Jacobs. 18. Known primarily for her narrative Incidents in the Life of a.

Slave Girl: Written by Herself, Harriet Jacobs was a reformer. Civil War and Reconstruction relief worker, and antislavery. In Incidents, Jacobs describes her life as. Southern slave, her abuse by her master and involvement with.

Also described is her 1. During the war, Jacobs began a career working among black. In 1. 86. 3 she and her daughter moved to Alexandria, where. Jacobs Free School- -black led and black. After the war they sailed to England and. Savannah's black orphans.

Moving to Washington, D. C., she continued to work among. Howard. University.

In 1. 89. 6, Harriet Jacobs was present at the organizing. National Association of Colored Women. Alexander Crummell. Alexander Crummell, clergyman and author, was born in New York. City to free parents. Crummell was a descendant of West African. He. attended Mulberry Street School in New York, and in 1.

Canaan, New Hampshire. In 1. 83. 6. Crummell attended Oneida Institute manual labor school. He was. received as a candidate for Holy Orders in 1. General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal. Church, but was not admitted because of his color. He was. eventually received in the diocese of Massachusetts and ordained. After study at Queen's College, Cambridge.

England, he went to Africa as a missionary, becoming a professor. Liberia. While there, Crummell. Africa. After spending 2. Crummell. returned to the United States and became rector of St.

Luke's. Church, Washington, D. C., and later founded the American Negro. Academy. Harriet Tubman.

Heralded as the "Moses" of her people, Underground. Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman became a legend during her.

Denied any real childhood or formal. Tubman labored in physically demanding jobs as a. Although she had heard of kind masters, she never. In 1. 84. 4, at age 2. John Tubman, a freeman, and in the summer of 1. At the last minute, her husband.

North Star to serve as her guide, making her way to freedom in. Pennsylvania. A year later, she returned to Baltimore to rescue. Travel became. more dangerous with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, but she.

Tubman's heroism was further highlighted by her activities. South to serve as.

Union Army. Her gift for directions and. Confederate fortifications. Although she. receive official commendation from Union officers, she was never.

After the war she returned to Auburn, New York, working to. Union soldier. She became involved in a.

Her. death brought obituaries that demonstrated her fame throughout the. United States and in Europe.

She was buried with military rites. Booker T. Washington serving as funeral speaker.

Booker. T. Washington. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington was the most prominent.

African Americans after the death of Frederick. Douglass. Much more conciliatory than Douglass, Washington. African. Americans through economic progress. As a boy, he picked.

Washington as his last name. After emancipation his mother and.

West Virginia, where Washington worked in the. In 1. 87. 1. Washington returned to Virginia and enrolled in the Hampton. Institute. After graduation in 1. West. Virginia and then studied at the Wayland Seminary before returning. Hampton. In 1. 88. Hampton to begin the single. Tuskegee. Normal School in Alabama.

Washington, his small staff, and their. Tuskegee. In its first year. Tuskegee had 3. 7 students and a faculty of three; when.

Washington died in 1. Tuskegee had 1,5. African Americans have criticized Washington for what they saw. This, along with his acceptance of segregation. W. E. B. Du Bois and other leaders to speak out. Washington. In October 1.

Washington collapsed while. New York City and was hospitalized. He. asked to be returned home to die and was taken back to Tuskegee. George Washington Carver.

One of the best known agricultural scientists of his. Carver was born into slavery near Diamond Grove. Missouri. Slave raiders kidnapped Carver and his mother when he. Although Carver had to work.

African American student to enroll at. Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.

He then put himself through. Iowa Agricultural College by working as a janitor, earning a. B. S. in 1. 89. 4 and an M. S. in 1. 89. 6 in agricultural science.

The same. year, Carver joined Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee. Institute, directing Tuskegee's agricultural research department. At Tuskegee, Carver.

Southern farmers to end their virtually. Carver encouraged.

In order. to make these crops more profitable, Carver did extensive. In 1. 92. 3 Carver won the.

Spingarn award, the highest annual prize given by the National. Association for Colored People. In 1. 93. 8 he took $3. George Washington. Carver Foundation to continue his work after his death. When he. died in 1.

He was. buried beside his great friend and mentor, Booker T. Washington. on the Tuskegee campus. Ida Wells- Barnett. Born to a slave cook and a slave carpenter, Ida Wells was a. At age 1. 6 she took over the raising of her siblings after. With the help of the black. Wells attended Rust College, afterward finding.

In May 1. 88. 4 Wells sued and won a case against a railroad for. The. incident served as a catalyst to a more militant Wells. As part. owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. After the 1. 89. 2 lynching of three. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

In. 1. 89. 3 Wells carried her fight for equality to the Chicago World's. Fair, then remained in Chicago and helped spawn the growth of. Wells marched in.

Washington, D. C., and was one of two. African American women to sign the call for the formation of the. NAACP. She married Ferdinand Barnett, owner of the Chicago. Conservator, in 1.

View. the text of Well's 1. Anti- Lynching Bureau. W. E. B. Du Bois. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, W. E. B. Du Bois became.

African Americans in the decades before World War II. In 1. 88. 8. Du Bois earned an A.

B. at Fiske University, where he had his first. Returning to Massachusetts. M. A. at Harvard and then spent two years studying at. University of Berlin before becoming the first African. American to earn a Ph.

News. 12/2. 3/2. 01. DA. No wrongdoing found at GNAbwellock@citizensvoice. Cameras. placed in the wrestling room of the Greater Nanticoke Area High School did not. Nanticoke police and the Luzerne County District. Attorney's Office said Friday. The cameras in the room were not in a part of.

Luzerne County. District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis. After school officials learned that. The cameras were highly visible. Police started investigating. Dec. 4, the day after a school board meeting when the entire board, superintendent. The situation began when the school received an unspecified complaint.

Superintendent Anthony Perrone shared the complaint. One board member, who school officials. Two days later, an administrator ordered the cameras. LCCC. student housing still on drawing boardaseder@timesleader. Luzerne. County Community College officials believe hundreds of students would be interested.

And a private equity. But under Nanticoke’s zoning laws. During a contentious. Wednesday night, a private developer’s request for approval. Kosciuszko Street, near the.

The. council was just not interested in making a change from an R- 2 zone, and 3. Nanticoke City Manager Pamela.

Heard. Alex Belavitz said he’s surprised city leaders would reject what. He noted the city’s zoning map. R- 3 Zone, the closest of which would. East Noble and South Chestnut streets, more than six blocks. Tom Leary, Luzerne County Community College’s. Belavitz spoke of the need for student housing nearly a.

It’s not an absolute necessity for us,”. Leary said. “But it would be nice.”Since the college draws from. Belavitz, the president and. CEO of Facility Design and Development, which has offices in State College, Scranton.

New York, said he and private equity firm Kingsley Equity have been looking. The land being considered for the project is Earth Conservancy. Keystone Opportunity Zone. But the project still would create. Belavitz said. While he lamented the city’s rejection of the project, he. We remain committed to see it through,”. Belavitz said, though he declined to give details.

Leary said dormitories for. Northampton Community College.

He said he hopes the council’s. Belavitz said. the city has to realize “their zoning is antiquated.” He hopes zoning. He. also hopes city council members realize that the concerns certain residents raised. Nanticoke. council shuts down plans for dormseskrapits@citizensvoice. City. council refused to rezone a piece of land on Kosciuszko Street across from Luzerne.

County Community College, effectively shutting down plans for a private developer. At Wednesday night's meeting, Alex Belavitz of. Facility Design and Development Ltd. Kinsley Equities wished to. Five acres of the land, part of a parcel reclaimed. Earth Conservancy, would have been sold to the developer for $1.

Conservancy Executive Director Mike Dziak said. Although LCCC would not be.

In a phone interview prior to the council meeting, LCCC President Thomas P. Leary. said surveys showed several hundred students indicated they could use housing. Belavitz said the dormitories. He said Kinsley. Equities, which has done similar projects at other colleges and universities throughout. Cherry Drive. But residents and.

I want to make sure this. What kind of guarantee can you offer me?".

Councilwoman Lesley Butczynski said. Belavitz said it could be put in as a. Resident Richard Zarzycki. You've. got your money and we've got a pain in the neck to deal with," he said. Following. much back- and- forth debate, council voted not to allow the rezoning of the property.

Dziak said that means. Although the proposed project site is in a Keystone Opportunity. Zone for the next three years, meaning it is exempt from state and local taxes. Hank Marks of the city's Redevelopment.

Authority. Belavitz said he was surprised to be put in such a defensive position. Club, met with approval from council, although the deal for that property. We had their full support back in May and June.

Belavitz said. "We moved two blocks away, and now. Student. housing rejected. Susan Bettinger - Times Leader. City Council. voted down plans Wednesday to turn the property near the entrance to Luzerne County. Community College into a student housing complex.

Alex Belavitz, president. CEO of Facility Design and Development, Scranton, gave a thorough presentation. The facility would have included separate dwellings.

The average cost for a single room would. The facility was to be privately funded by Kingsley.

Equity at a cost of $1. Kingsley also did a market study of LCCC students. Northampton Community College added a student housing complex managed by Kingsley.

Belavitz said.“It. Nanticoke,” he said. He added that. with the addition of the complex, the city would have seen a boost in the downtown.

Many residents were strongly opposed to the development, stating that. LCCC would take over the property, thus leaving the city with no tax revenue from. Skateboarders. raise need for local parkeskrapits@citizensvoice. Local. skateboarders want people to take their sport seriously, and they want a park.

The North East Skate Crew. Northeast Pennsylvania Skatepark Alliance are having a premiere at 7 p. Thursday at Wilkes- Barre Movies 1. Blowin' It," a video by Dallas.

Trevor Charles "T. C." Harding. The video features local skateboarders. The event is to raise funds for - and awareness of the need for - a skate park.

Wyoming Valley. James Gidosh of the Northeast Pennsylvania Skatepark. Alliance said the group had to pay for the venue and costs, but hopes to get about. Harding. who produced and directed "Blowin' It," has been making skateboarding.

Jon Borthwick, also from Dallas, "but. Harding is a professional filmmaker who. Los Angeles and plans to move back there from Wilkes- Barre. Pest Factors Affect Marketing Activities Schedule here. His goals are to write feature films and "hopefully direct.

People might dismiss skateboarding as a "little. Harding doesn't think they realize how much work and passion. I think you. grow up a lot faster than other people do, through skateboarding," he said. I think it teaches you to look at the world in a different way."Most. Harding said. The best part is hanging out with your friends, but you don't need. The trouble is, there aren't any venues in the Wyoming.

Valley specifically for skateboarders. Two potential locations for a skate. Lower Broadway recreation park in Nanticoke and land owned by UGI. Penn Natural Gas Inc. Water Street near the courthouse in Wilkes- Barre, but.

In the meantime, local skateboarders are frustrated. One of them posted to You. Tube a two- part video compilation showing himself and. Nanticoke. to Shickshinny. Wilkes- Barre's riverside park is a popular hangout for skateboarders. Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority.

Director Jim Brozena said they are committing acts of vandalism, and "the. The. concern obviously is, especially on the River Common, is that they seem to have. Brozena said there was an. Wilkes- Barre, the county and UGI to. Water Street, but discussions broke. He said, "We're still interested in seeing. Nanticoke Administrator Pam Heard said the.

Skatepark Alliance. There's one big catch: "It's. Heard said. Skate parks can be expensive, starting. We are. doing our best to find some way to get it done," Heard said. The city. received a state grant for a walking trail at the Lower Broadway park, but at.

Nanticoke hadn't finished the process of obtaining ownership. Heard said the city partnered with the Skatepark.

Alliance to try for a grant through skateboard legend Tony Hawk or a share of. Mericle kids- for- cash money, but didn't receive either. She said they are.

Recreation really. Pennsylvania."Gidosh. I know there's not a lot of funding. I think we're probably going to be waiting.

State Rep. Gerald Mullery's Chief of Staff Leigh Bonczewski. Thursday's movie to support the Skatepark Alliance. Nanticoke is undergoing. Bonczewski said."It may take some time, but it. QUICK INFO: The North East Skate Crew and Northeast. Pennsylvania Skatepark Alliance will premiere a video featuring local skateboarders.

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