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Jenkins was the son of a native chief, according to an 1818 letter. [2] Born along the Guinea coast, he was possibly the son of a slave-trading chief 'King Cock-eye'. [3] As an infant (also reported as aged 6), [3] Jenkins traveled with Scottish sea captain James Swanson to Britain, leaving Africa in January 1803 and arriving in Liverpool in May of the same year before traveling to the ...
Tom Jenkins may refer to: Tom Jenkins (baseball) (1898–1979), American baseball player; Tom Jenkins (golfer) (born 1947), American golfer; Tom Jenkins (teacher) (1797–1859), Britain's first black school teacher; Tom Jenkins (trade unionist) (1920–2012), Welsh trade union leader; Tom Jenkins (wrestler) (1872–1957), American professional ...
First African American male: Luther T. Glanton, Jr. in 1958 [13] [14] First Jewish American male (district court): Ansel Chapman in 1968 [15] First African American male (district court): Luther T. Glanton, Jr. in 1976 [13] [14] First male of part Vietnamese descent (Iowa Supreme Court): Christopher McDonald in 2019 [16]
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By 1905, independent historian Rachelle Chase wrote in Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, it was "a town of 5,000 where 55 percent of the population was black." The typical Iowa coal town ...
The Davenport Community School District is a public school district in Scott County, Iowa.The school district covers 109 square miles (280 km 2) [citation needed] that includes the city of Davenport, where it is based, and the western Scott County communities of Blue Grass, Buffalo and Walcott in addition to a small section of Muscatine County. [2]
The U.K.’s Stigma Films has snapped up TV rights for Jeffrey Boakye’s “I Heard What You Said,” an Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022. Told via a series of encounters based on ...
When first founded it was a "normal and industrial" school. Booker T. Washington Junior College: Pensacola: Florida: 1949 1965 Public The first of twelve black junior colleges created in Florida, it closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nominally merged with Pensacola Junior College. J. P. Campbell College