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The word democracy carries so many awe inspiring implications. As the key word of the subject of an address it may be the presage of an outpour of altitudinous and platitudinous expressions regarding the most free and glorious government of the most free and glorious people that the world has ever seen.  On the other hand, it may hold up its sleeve; if you will permit such a figure, a display of abstruse and recondite theorizations or hypotheses of democracy as a system of government. In choosing between either of these evils it is difficult to decide which is the lesser.\nIndeed, the wording of my subject gave me somewhat more concern than the speech. I am not lure that it contains the slightest idea of what I shall attempt to say; but if the wording of my subject is loose it only places upon me greater reason for being more specific and definite in what I shall say. This I shall endeavor to do; at the same time, however, without being so, confident or so cocksure as an old preacher I used to listen to on Sundays when I taught school one summer down in the backwoods of Georgia, sometimes to my edification and often to my amazement.\nOn one particular Sunday, after taking a rather cryptic text, he took off his spectacles and","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.com/uploads/blackfacts/facts/www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/james_weldon_johnson.jpg","ImageHeight":321,"ImageWidth":200,"ImageOrientation":"portrait","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"de2ecbf0-5aa4-45ce-bbf9-9a6ac45f6ac8","SourceName":"Black Past","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.blackpast.org/","IsSponsored":false,"HasSmallSponsorLogo":false,"EffectiveDate":"1923-03-10T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":1923,"Month":3,"Day":10,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":"ExtractionBotHub","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":4969,"FactUId":"f1dfc37a-4c0b-44d1-b313-f9d46f567d2f","Slug":"1923-james-weldon-johnson-our-democracy-and-the-ballot","FactType":"Event","Title":"(1923) James Weldon Johnson, \u201COur Democracy and the Ballot\u201D","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/1923-james-weldon-johnson-our-democracy-and-the-ballot","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to form their own church. Nassau had just suffered a fire that destroyed their church. Although slaves and indentured servants were allowed to attend Nassau Presbyterian, they suffered much racism and were forced to sit in the small balcony. Many of them saw this as the opportunity to establish a church they controlled.\nThe original church name was The First Presbyterian Church of Colour of Princeton. After the first official communion was held in 1840, the church was referred to as Third Presbyterian Church, and later the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church for Colored People in Princeton. The congregation included enslaved, indentured, and free people of color. \nElizabeth \u0026ldquo;Betsy\u0026rdquo; Stockton was born enslaved to the Stockton Family in Princeton; she attended Nassau Presbyterian Church and was instrumental in establishing the new church. Betsy Stockton earned her freedom at the age of twenty and traveled to Hawaii as a missionary. She returned to Princeton in 1835 and helped found the First Presbyterian Church of Colour. In 1837 Stockton began teaching African American children in a public school and later established a Sabbath School at what is now the Witherspoon Street Church. A stained glass window in the church is dedicated to Stockton and her work in the church.\nIn October of 1879, Rev. William Drew Robeson was installed as pastor. Along with his wife, Maria Louisa Bustill of Philadelphia, the Robesons moved into the church parsonage and began their family. That parsonage was the place of birth of twentieth century singer and activist Paul Robeson and is now called The Robeson House. As a former slave, Rev. Robeson fought for the rights of African Americans. 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She would speak at anti-slavery meetings, and for her exploits in leading slaves out of bondage she was revered as The Moses of Her People.\nHarriet Tubman was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland about 1820 (like most slaves, she only had a vague idea of her own birthday). She was originally named Araminta Ross, and was called Minty.\nAs was customary where she lived, young Minty was hired out as a worker and would be charged with minding younger children of white families. When she was older she worked as a field slave, performing arduous outdoor which included collecting lumber and driving wagons of grain to the Chesapeake Bay wharves.\nMinty Ross married John Tubman in 1844, and at some point, she began using her mothers first name, Harriet.\nTubmans Unique Skills\nHarriet Tubman received no education and remained illiterate throughout her life. She did, however, gain considerable knowledge of the Bible through oral recitation, and she would often\u00A0refer to Biblical passages and parables.\nFrom her years of hard work as a field slave, she became physically strong.\n And she learned skills such as woodcraft and herbal medicine that would be very useful in her later work.\nThe years of manual labor made her look much older than her actual age, something she would use to her advantage while going undercover in slave territory.\nIn her youth, Tubman had been severely injured when a white master threw a lead weight at another slave and struck her in the head.\n For the rest of her life, she would suffer narcoleptic seizures, occasionally lapsing into a coma-like state.\nBecause of her odd affliction, people sometimes ascribed mystical powers to","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.com/uploads/blackfacts/facts/fthmb.tqn.com/_toev7yx_fridd_vze3ytvesrk8-/3000x2025/filters-fill-auto-1-/about/harriet-tubman-3000-3x2-56a4893b3df78cf77282ddee.jpg","ImageHeight":1012,"ImageWidth":1499,"ImageOrientation":"landscape","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"6982ddb9-33e1-469e-8344-2e6290cc3f69","SourceName":"ThoughtCo","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-4133344","IsSponsored":false,"HasSmallSponsorLogo":false,"EffectiveDate":"1913-03-10T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":1913,"Month":3,"Day":10,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":"ExtractionBotHub","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":8557,"FactUId":"a756649a-61a0-4963-bf77-326bd21d29e7","Slug":"harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-heroine","FactType":"Event","Title":"Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad Heroine","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-heroine","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"While Harriet Tubman (about 1820 -\u00A0March 10, 1913) remains one of historys best-known African Americans, until recently there have been few biographies of her written for adults. Because her life is inspiring, there are appropriately many childrens stories about Tubman, but these tend to stress her early life, her own escape from slavery, and her work with the Underground Railroad.\nLess well known and neglected by many historians are her Civil War service and her activities in the nearly 50 years she lived after the Civil War ended.\n In this article, youll find details about Harriet Tubmans life in slavery and her work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, but youll also find information about Tubmans later and less-known work and life. For the basics on Tubman, see Harriet Tubman Facts \nHarriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County on the Eastern shore of Maryland, in 1820 or 1821, on the plantation of Edward Brodas or Brodess. Her birth name was Araminta, and she was called Minty until she changed her name to Harriet - after her mother - in her early teen years. Her parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, were enslaved Ashanti Africans who had eleven children, and saw many of the older children sold into the Deep South.\nAt five years old, Araminta was rented to neighbors to do housework. She was never very good at household chores, and was beaten regularly by her owners and those who rented her.\n She was, of course, not educated to read or write. She eventually was assigned work as a field hand, which she preferred to household work. 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She later led more than 300 other slaves to the North and to Canada to their freedom. The best-known conductor on the Underground Railroad, she was acquainted with many of the social reformers and abolitionists of her time, and she spoke against slavery and for womens rights.\nDuring the Civil War, Tubman served with the U.S. Army in South Carolina as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier. Most famously she led the Combahee River expedition, under the command of James Montgomery, helping to blow up Southern supply lines and free hundreds of slaves.\u00A0\nIn the almost half-century she lived after the war ended, Harriet Tubman helped a biographer publish her life story, spoke for the rights of women and African Americans, helped organize the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church, and set up a home for indigent aged African Americans.\nHarriet Tubman fought for a military pension, but was only able to win a widows pension on account of her second husbands service. When Harriet Tubman died, the people of Auburn buried her with full military honors.\u00A0\nNew England Anti-Slavery Society, General Vigilance Committee, Underground Railroad, National Federation of Afro-American Women, National Association of Colored Women, New England Womens Suffrage Association, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church\n\u0026ldquo;Don\u2019t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.\u0026rdquo;\u00A0\nThese words","MaxDetailCharacters":0,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.com/uploads/blackfacts/facts/fthmb.tqn.com/yplsjn3zwrbrdqy31bztwfdcpbc-/1970x1314/filters-fill-auto-1-/about/tubman-2666879-x3-56aa24b15f9b58b7d000fbce.jpg","ImageHeight":1001,"ImageWidth":1501,"ImageOrientation":"landscape","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"6982ddb9-33e1-469e-8344-2e6290cc3f69","SourceName":"ThoughtCo","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-history-4133344","SponsorId":"c774164e-1b1a-4b35-8157-9ce64ec2e2c6","IsSponsored":true,"SponsorName":"Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter","SmallSponsorLogoUrl":"24x24/prospanica-logo.png","SponsorUrl":"https://www.prospanica.org/members/group.aspx?code=Boston","HasSmallSponsorLogo":true,"EffectiveDate":"1913-03-10T00:00:00","HasEffectiveDate":true,"Year":1913,"Month":3,"Day":10,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":"ExtractionBotHub","IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"Id":8609,"FactUId":"62932f7a-8aee-465e-84cd-2a9760e56a59","Slug":"harriet-tubman-facts-underground-railroad-and-more","FactType":"Event","Title":"Harriet Tubman Facts: Underground Railroad and More","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/harriet-tubman-facts-underground-railroad-and-more","ResultCount":-1,"SearchType":"Today"},{"FadeSummary":false,"SummaryText":"Born Harriet Ross, c. 1819-1820, Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman\u00A0was born into slavery.\nMarch 10, 1913, Auburn, New York\nHarriet Tubman married a free black man when she was 25. He would not join her in her desire to escape from freedom. She escaped in 1849 by herself. She first went to a safe house where she was hidden in a wagon and sent on her dangerous trek until she crossed into a free state and was taken to Philadelphia.\nHarriet Tubman had a mission to help others find freedom from slavery. Once in Philadelphia she was able to get a job and save money to start helping others flee bondage by becoming a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She traveled to Maryland and helped over three hundred slaves escape all the while facing mortal danger. She helped her family, friends, and others reach Philadelphia. Once the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850 making it illegal to help escaped slaves and enforcing stiff penalties, her work became even more dangerous. She moved to Canada but continued travelling to Maryland to help more slaves.\nDuring the Civil War, Tubman enlisted as a nurse and served in South Carolina. She then became a scout and spy. Her help and information was invaluable. She personally led troops in July, 1863 disrupting supplies lines and freeing hundreds of slaves.\n Sadly, Tubman was never recognized as a regular operative in the US Army and was not paid regularly nor given a pension.\nHarriet Tubmans second marriage occurred in 1869 to Nelson Davis. She moved to Auburn, New York where she bought land near Secretary of State William Seward.\n She spent her later years working for womens rights and opened a home to care for elderly African-Americans. 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At only 16 years of age, he caught the attention of Real Madrid\u2014one of the top teams in Europe\u2014who signed him in 1997, though Eto\u2019o saw little playing time. Nor did he see much action after joining Cameroon when it qualified for the 1998 World Cup but faltered in the first round.\nEto\u2019o made his name playing for Cameroon during the 2000 African Cup of Nations, where he scored four times, including a crucial goal in the Indomitable Lions\u2019 gold-medal victory over Nigeria. His impressive play continued at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where Cameroon defeated Spain for the first Olympic gold in its history. In the Olympic final, with the Indomitable Lions facing a 2\u20130 deficit in the second half, Eto\u2019o and teammate Patrick Mboma led the comeback with two goals, forcing extra time. After Eto\u2019o\u2019s apparent goal in the final seconds of extra time was called back owing to an offside penalty, the game went into penalty kicks, in which Cameroon prevailed.\nEto\u2019o was lent out to a number of teams by Real Madrid until 2000, when he signed with Real Mallorca of the Spanish League; his $6.3 million contract was the largest amount paid by the club at the time. Internationally, he guided Cameroon to a second African Cup of Nations title and a World Cup berth in 2002. While Eto\u2019o was an impressive player for Mallorca\u2014he became the club\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer\u2014his team was still considered below the top tier of European football, and he was lured to the powerhouse club  FC Barcelona in 2004.\nEto\u2019o continued his stellar play in Barcelona. 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The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The Commonwealth of Nations demanded the reinstatement of Kabbah, and ECOMOG, the Nigerian-led peacekeeping force, intervened. On March 10, 1998, after ten months in exile, Kabbah resumed his rule over Sierra Leone. The ousted junta and other rebel forces continued to wage attacks, many of which included the torture, rape, and brutal maimings of thousands of civilians, including countless children; amputation by machete was the horrific signature of the rebels. In addition to political power, the rebels, who were supported by Liberias president Charles Taylor, sought control of Sierra Leones rich diamond fields.\nIn Jan. 1999, rebels and Liberian mercenaries stormed the capital, demanding the release of the imprisoned Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader, Foday Sankoh. ECOMOG regained control of Freetown, but President Kabbah later released Sankoh so he could participate in peace negotiations. Pressured by Nigeria and the U.S., among other countries, Kabbah agreed to an untenable power-sharing agreement in July 1999, which made Sankoh vice president of the country\u2014and in charge of the diamond mines. The accord dissolved in May 2000 after the RUF abducted about 500 UN peacekeepers and attacked Freetown. Sankoh was captured and died in government custody in 2003, while awaiting trial for war crimes.\nThe conflict was officially declared over in Jan. 2002. An estimated 50,000 people were killed in the decade-long civil war. The UN installed its largest peacekeeping force in the country (17,000 troops). President Kabbah was reelected with 70% of the vote in May 2002. In 2004, the disarmament of 70,000 soldiers was completed, and a UN-sponsored war crimes tribunal opened. 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Setting her sights on academic excellence, she earned an A.A. from Ulster County Community College in New York State, a B.A. from Manhattanville College in New York City, and an M.A. from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York. \nHer experience in foster care later spurred Welters, along with her husband, Anthony, an attorney and executive with United Healthcare, to found the AnBryce Foundation in 1995 to provide opportunities for underprivileged children. The Foundation acquired land in Virginia, where they hold an annual summer academy teaching life skills to disadvantaged young people.\u00A0 The couple later founded the Vincent Wilkinson Foundation (2004), also to provide opportunities for underserved youth.\nAs Chairman and President of the AnBryce Foundation, Welters met then Illinois Senator Barack Obama in 2007.\u00A0 Senator Obama, hearing of their work, invited her and her husband to have breakfast with him on Capitol Hill.\u00A0 That meeting would later persuade President Obama to select Welters as the diplomat to represent the United States in the island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. \nAfter her confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Welters and her husband arrived in Port-of-Spain, the capital. 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