America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
For Jeff and all the wonderful stu dents in Mr Sanders's fourth grade class at Fairmont Elementary God bless our native land Her homes and children bless Oh may she ever stand For truth and righteousness From God Bless Our Native Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Time Line 1760 Briton Hammon publishes the first African Ameri can autobiography 1770 Crispus Attucks dies in the Boston Massacre as the first martyr of the American Revolution 1773 Phillis Wheatley publishes Poems on Various Sub jects Religious and Moral 1775 Prince Hall founds African Lodge No 1 in Boston Minuteman Prince Estabrook fights at Lexington Minuteman Peter Salem fights at Concord Lemuel Haynes writes the ballad The Battle of Lexington Petition submitted to honor Salem Poor's bravery at the Battle of Bunker Hill 1776 James Forten hears the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence 1778 Nero Hawley earns exemplary pay at Valley Forge 1781 The First Rhode Island Regiment fights bravely at Yorktown in the last battle of the Revolutionary War 1787 Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Free African Society in Philadelphia 1788 Prince Hall petitions for safe return of kidnapped free blacks sold into slavery and wins
America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders.
