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Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake, born in Missouri in 1841, was one of six children of Robin and Polly Holmes. From 1852 to 1853 Mary Jane was the subject of a fifteen-month legal battle known as Holmes v. Ford to obtain her freedom.  That battle also helped determine the status of slavery in the Oregon Territory.   The Holmes family was owned by Missouri farmer Nathaniel Ford.  In 1844 Ford brought the family west on the Oregon Trail, promising Robin and Polly their freedom if they would help him establish a farm in the Oregon Territory.   Ford refused to honor his promise for five years after their arrival, finally relenting in 1849.  He freed the parents and their new born son but refused to release nine-year-old Mary Jane and her other siblings including two who had been born in Oregon Territory.  Ford intended to sell each of the four children when they reached adulthood. Ford’s refusal to release Mary Jane Holmes and her siblings prompted R...

Morris Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 13, 1770. His family belonged to a sizable African American population in the city who were mostly enslaved.  Brown’s parents, however, were part the city’s tiny free black community.  In the year of Brown’s birth, more than 5,800 enslaved blacks and 24 free blacks resided in the city, compared to a total of 5,030 whites.  Within this city where African Americans were the majority, Brown’s family circulated within an elite black society, whose members were often so closely related to aristocratic whites in the city that they were exempt from the racist restrictions imposed on the majority of enslaved people. A prosperous shoemaker by trade and charismatic religious leader, Brown travelled to Philadelphia to collaborate with the Rev. Richard Allen in the founding of the country’s first African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel AME) in 1816.  Brown worked tirelessly to forge an independent African M...

Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was born in New Providence, Nassau on November 12, 1874.  was one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920.  At the age of 11, Bert permanently immigrated with his parents from The Bahamas to Florida and then to Riverside, California, where he later graduated from Riverside High School. In 1893, while still a teenager, he joined different West Coast minstrel shows, including Martin and Selig's Mastodon Minstrels, where he first met his future partner, George Walker. He and Walker later became known as  Williams and Walker - Two Real Coons . They performed song-and-dance numbers, comic dialogues and skits, and humorous songs. They fell into stereotypical vaudevillian roles: originally Williams portrayed a slick conniver, while Walker played the "dumb coon" victim of Williams' ...

In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and take his seat.  Others were elected earlier but were not seated.  Rainey was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, on June 21, 1832. His parents had been slaves but his father purchased his family’s freedom and taught him to be a barber. The family moved to Charleston in 1846.  Rainey, however, traveled frequently outside the South. In 1859, Rainey went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania There he met and married Susan, a free woman of color from the West Indies, who was also of African-French descent. They returned to South Carolina, where their three children were born: Joseph II, Herbert and Olivia. In 1861, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, Rainey was among free blacks drafted by the Confederate government to work on fortifications in Charleston, South Carolina. He also worked as a cook and laborer on blockade runner ships....

(1813 – August 4, 1882) Anna Murray-Douglass was an American  abolitionist , member of the  Underground Railroad , and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman  Frederick Douglass , from 1838 to her death.  Anna Murray was born in  Denton, Maryland , to Bambar(r)a  and Mary Murray.  Unlike her seven older brothers and sisters, who were born in slavery, Anna Murray and her younger four siblings were born free,  her parents having been  manumitted  just a month before her birth.  A resourceful young woman, by the age of 17 she had established herself as a laundress and housekeeper.  Her laundry work took her to the docks, where she met Frederick Douglass,  who was then working as a  caulker . Murray's freedom made Douglass believe in the possibility of his own. When he decided to escape slavery in 1838, Murray encouraged and helped him by providing Douglass with some sailor's clothing her ...

(born  Espera Oscar de Corti  April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999)  He was an American  actor  born in Louisiana. Going by the name of Iron Eyes Cody, he portrayed  Native Americans  in  Hollywood  films.  In 1996, his 100 percent  Italian  ancestry was confirmed by his half-sister.   Cody was born  Espera Oscar de Corti  on April 3, 1904, in  Kaplan  in  Vermilion Parish , in southwestern  Louisiana , a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from  Sicily . He had two brothers, Joseph William and Frank Henry, and a sister Victoria. His parents had a local grocery store in  Gueydan , Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to  Texas , where he anglicized his name as Tony Corti. His mother married Alton Abshire and had five more children with him. When the three de Corti brothers were teenagers, they joined their...

       Arthur M. Brown was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1867. His grandmother was one of that city's early public school teachers, and his parents made sure that he received a good education.        At age 24, Brown first opened his medical practice in Bessemer, Alabama, later moving to Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois before establishing himself as a surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama in 1894. Dr. Brown was involved in a variety of civic activities, including service as chairman of the Alabama Prison Improvement Board. His wife, Nellie, also served her community as a case worker for the Children's Aid Society.        When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Brown organized a company of infantrymen and offered the group's service to the Alabama governor. Although his group was not activated, Brown was commissioned a First Lieutenant and served as a surgeon in Santiago, Cuba throughout the war.   ...

Here I have provided you with the pdf link to the very informative and very revealing book by Mrs. Charolette Thomson Iserbyt, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America." It gives a detailed inside look at the educational system from it's conception to today. I'm not gonna spoil it for you by telling you to much about it. But I'm gonna tell you this "The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America" is an invaluable book that breaks the educational system down to it's core. It tells about the revamping of the educational system and the reason why. Parents send their children to school  thinking that they're children are getting a true education but, in actuality they're children are only being training. Sadly the same goes for all levels of education from preschool to college. http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf