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Benjamin Banneker : truth to power / by James Cannady, Sheryl Cannady, and Tony Brown.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Black studies in video
- Tony Brown's Journal
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banneker, Benjamin.
- Black people--History.
- Black people.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Tony Brown Productions, 2002.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- Summary:
- Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation's capitol and inventing a clock in 1753. In 1791 alone, Benjamin Banneker completed the survey of Washington, DC, published his first almanac and confronted one of the nation's founders, Thomas Jefferson, about his doctrine of Black inferiority. Charles A. Cerami, former editor of the Kiplinger Washington Publications and author of Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot, explains that there was a lot more to Banneker than what is written in the history books.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 28, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 881547499
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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