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into a prominent college, BethuneCookman College, for black students by a black woman named Mary McLeod Bethune?
• A great scientist from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama found hundreds of uses for the peanut, sweet potato and soybean and was a black man named Dr. George Washington Carver?
• The city of Chicago was founded by a fur trader who sought the ideal center for his business and was a black man named Jean Baptiste Pointe Dusable?
• The greatest black leader of the Civil War era was a free man named Frederick Douglas?
• One of the greatest intellects of his time was a black man named W.E.B. DuBois, who in 1905 established the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
• The first automatic stop signal was invented by a black man named Garret A. Morgan?
• One of the greatest abolitionists and women’s rights activists was a black woman named Sojourner Truth?
• The first successful heart surgery on a human being was performed in 1893 by a black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
The above is a small sampling of the many acts and accomplishments made by blacks to America and to the world. The list goes on and on.
M. NANETTE BUTLER
Washington, D.C.
(formerly of Sperry ville)
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