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CLOSED! JUNE 2013, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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3030 W Arthington St Chicago, Illinois 60612  Map

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WHO WAS MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE?

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander."

Mary Mcleod Bethune, founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904, and served as president from 1904-1942 and from 1946-47. Was a leader in the black women's club movement and served as president of the National Association of Colored Women. Was a delegate and advisor to national conferences on education, child welfare, and home ownership.Was Director of Negro Affairs in the the National Youth Adminstration from 1936 to 1944. Served as consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War for selection of the first female officer candidates. Appointed consultant on interracial affairs and understanding at the charter conference of the U.N. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women. Vice-president of the NAACP. Was awarded the Haitian Medal of Honor and Merit, that country's highest award. In Liberia she received the honor of Commander of the Order of the Star of Africa.

Mary Mcleod Bethune of 17 children of Samuel and Patsy McLeod, former slaves

Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, circa 1905.

  Watch an actress portray Mary McLeod Bethune

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CLOSED! JUNE 2013, BENJAMIN BANNEKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6656 S Normal Blvd Chicago, Illinois 60621  Map 

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WHO WAS BENJAMIN BANNEKER?

Benjamin Banneker was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught

Also in 1791, Banneker created and published his acclaimed Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Almanac and Ephemeris.

In 1792 Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, white supremacist, and slave owner pronounced Blacks mathematicallyinferior. In response to Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker sent a copy of his almanac along with a twelve page twelvepageletter to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson requesting aid in improving the lot of American Blacks.

BANNEKER'S TRIGONOMETRY PUZZLE

THIS IS JEFFERSON'S REPLY ADMITTING HE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE INFERIORITY OF BLACKS.

 http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html

http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-banneker-black-man-who.html

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CLOSED! JUNE, 2013: JOHN P. ALTGELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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1340 W 71st St

Chicago, Illinois 60636  Map

  WHO WAS JOHN P. ALTGELD?

 ...Elected by the greatest personal triumph of any Governor ever chosen by a State, he fearlessly and knowingly bared his devoted head to the fiercest, most vindictive criticism ever heaped upon a public man, because he loved justice and dared to do the right.  

---Address of Clarence Darrow at the Funeral of John P. Altgeld (Friday, March 14, 1902)

As governor, Altgeld spearheaded the nation's most progressive child labor and occupational safety laws, appointed women to important positions in the state government, and vastly increased state funding for education.

Historically, Altgeld is remembered chiefly for pardoning the three surviving men convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing (four others had already been executed, one committed suicide in prison). After reviewing their cases, he concluded, as have subsequent scholars, that there had been a serious miscarriage of justice in their prosecutions. He came under intense attack.