Black History Month

By Dr. Edward J. Robinson

September 2010

American History

Exclusion of Many Black Accomplishments

Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

American Educator, Tuskegee University

George Washington Carver1864-1943

American Scientist, Botanist, Educator and Inventor

W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du BoisBorn - February 23, 1868in Great Barrington, MA

Died - August 27, 1963 (aged 95)in Ghana

Occupation – Academic, Scholar, Journalist, SociologistAlma mater- Fisk University, Harvard University

The History of Black History

Local Black History

of the North Shore

Lynn The Shoe Capitol of the World

Jan Matzeliger

1852 – 1889

Inventor and BusinessmanShoe Lasting Machine – Patent Number 274,207

“ The most important invention for New England”“The greatest step forward in the shoe industry”

Frederick Douglass1818 - 1895

William Lloyd Garrison

1805 - 1879

The Lynn Colored GiantsLincoln AC

Salem WillowsVenue of the Black picnic started in 1741

Charles Lenox Remond1810 – 1873

Speaker, Abolitionist and Patriarch

Stacey HouseUnderground Railroad Station (Safe House)

Underground Railroad NetworkA vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North

and Canada

Underground Railroad SystemNorth of Boston

Joseph Brown“Black Joe” 1750 - 1834

Black Joe’s Grave at Old Burial Hill

“Joe” Froggers

Robinson Family 1960’s