Posted by admin on October 26, 2009 under Fun Facts, Harriet Tubman Fun Facts | 
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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He helped establish many national parks and wilderness areas, including: YOSEMITE, SEQUOIA / KINGS CANYON, GRAND CANYON, and MT. RAINIER.
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In June of 1947, he announced the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of post-war Europe. This plan saved millions of lives and probably some of Western Europe from becoming Communist states.
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Lincoln was the tallest president. He was 6 feet and four inches tall.
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Thomas Jefferson’s intellectual curiosity drew him into an accelerating, three-hundred-year-old quest to find a water route to Asia, and he personally planned the successful expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.
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The Miracle Worker is a play by William Gibson based upon Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life.
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