The document provides information about Black history and influential Black figures such as Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and W.E.B. Du Bois. It also discusses local Black history in Lynn, Massachusetts, including Jan Matzeliger who invented an important shoe lasting machine, and Underground Railroad sites in Salem. Finally, it mentions Joseph Brown, known as "Black Joe", who is buried at Old Burial Hill.

1. Black History Month By Dr. Edward J. Robinson September 2010

2. American History Exclusion of Many Black Accomplishments

3. Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915 American Educator, Tuskegee University

4. George Washington Carver 1864-1943 American Scientist, Botanist, Educator and Inventor

5. W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Born - February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, MA Died - August 27, 1963 (aged 95) in Ghana Occupation – Academic, Scholar, Journalist, Sociologist Alma mater- Fisk University, Harvard University

6. The History of Black History

8. Local Black History of the North Shore

9. Lynn The Shoe Capitol of the World

10. Jan Matzeliger 1852 – 1889 Inventor and Businessman Shoe Lasting Machine – Patent Number 274,207 “ The most important invention for New England” “The greatest step forward in the shoe industry”

11. Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 William Lloyd Garrison 1805 - 1879

12. The Lynn Colored Giants Lincoln AC

14. Salem Willows Venue of the Black picnic started in 1741

15. Charles Lenox Remond 1810 – 1873 Speaker, Abolitionist and Patriarch

16. Stacey House Underground Railroad Station (Safe House)

17. Underground Railroad Network A vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and Canada

18. Underground Railroad System North of Boston

19. Joseph Brown “ Black Joe” 1750 - 1834

20. Black Joe’s Grave at Old Burial Hill

21. “ Joe” Froggers

22. Robinson Family 1960’s