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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 ...
An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...
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Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure.. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars.
First African-American Radio City Music Hall Rockette: Jennifer Jones; First African-American man to sail around the world solo: Teddy Seymour; First African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company: Clifton R. Wharton Jr. [279] First African-American woman, and first woman, to have an album debut at number one on the Billboard 200: Whitney Houston
She moved to East Athens School in 1963, then integrated Chase Street as the first Black teacher in the 1966-67 school year. She later became a counselor at Clarke Middle School and was the ...
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