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The Underground Railroad

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Story/Video: Elizabeth Blackwell

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Dr. Dennis Denenberg – Elizabeth Blackwell – W O W

Resource: Elizabeth Blackwell

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“Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the coordinate liberal arts schools that continue the legacy of Geneva Medical College, take special pride in claiming Dr. Blackwell as an alumna. Specific information that pertains to her special relationship to Hobart and William Smith is noted throughout the text of this web site…”

http://campus.hws.edu/his/blackwell/

Fun Fact: Elizabeth Blackwell

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Rejected by all the leading schools because of her sex, Blackwell applied to Geneva Medical College where her application was accepted only after being endorsed by the current students who thought it was a joke.

Fun Fact: George Washington

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George Washington was the only President who did not live in the White House. He was involved in the planning of the Capitol. Furthermore, the nation’s capital was located in Philadelphia during Washington’s administration making him the only president who didn’t live in Washington, D.C. during his presidency.

Fun Fact: Harriet Tubman

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Whom did Harriet rescue first as a conductor on the Underground Railroad? Sister, brother-in-law and their children. She helped her brother-in-law, John Bowley, bring his family to Pennsylvania. John Tubman fell in love with another woman after Harriet ran away.

Fun Fact: Harry S Truman

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Truman was the first President to have his inauguration televised. He was the first President to give a speech on television.

For more information: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/quiz/inaug.htm

Fun Fact: Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt” first aired on WGBH in October, 1959. The monthly series was a forum for prominent leaders and decision makers to discuss current issues with Eleanor as mediator and host. One of its programs took as its subject the Peace Corps, begun under the Kennedy administration. Eleanor discussed the organization’s formation and the duties of public service with President Kennedy.

For more information:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/tv.html

http://www.wgbhalumni.org/photos/1959-prospects.html

Fun Fact: Jackie Robinson

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In 1941, Jackie Robinson became the first athlete in the history of UCLA to letter in four sports (baseball, football, basketball and track) in the same year.

Fun Fact: Rosa Parks

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On the afternoon of Rosa Parks’ court trial, the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed. So as not to ruffle any local activists’ feathers, the members elected as their president a relative newcomer to Montgomery, the young minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.