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
1789 John Marrant delivers his popular sermon as chap lain of Prince Hall's African Lodge of Masons 1790 Philadelphia the nation's largest population of free blacks becomes the temporary capital of the United States 1791 Benjamin Banneker is appointed to help survey Washington D C 1792 Benjamin Banneker publishes his first almanac 1837 Frank Johnson and band perform in England and before Queen Victoria 1836 Jarena Lee publishes autobiography 1833 Charlotte Vandine Forten is founding member of the Philadelphia Female Anti Slavery Society 1830 Richard Allen organizes the first National Con vention 1824 Frank Johnson composes and performs original music in honor of Lafayette's return tour of Amer 1ca 1818 Prince Saunders speaks to the Augustine Society 1817 Richard Allen Absalom Jones and James Forten hold mass meeting of over 3 000 at Bethel to protest the American Colonization Society 1816 Richard Allen founds the African Methodist Epis copal Church the first African American denomi nation 1815 Paul Cuffe founds back to Africa movement and sails first settlers to Sierre Leone
