And he was a civil rights activist...........

Africans in America/Part 2/Banneker's Letter to Jefferson - PBS

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On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct  ...

Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Jefferson - PBS

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Banneker's letter to Jefferson. SIR, I AM fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to ...

Benjamin Banneker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Benjamin Banneker | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

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Banneker wrote a now-famous letter to Thomas Jefferson on August 19, 1791, arguing eloquently that "...however variable we may be in Society or religion,  ...