Langston Hughes, African-American poet, is born

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February 1, 1902
Related Lesson Plans: 
The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
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We The People
Related Links: 
Langston Hughes National Poetry Project: Speaking of Rivers, Taking Poetry to the People

Sojourner Truth addresses the first Women's Rights Convention in Akon, OH with her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech

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May 29, 1851
Related Lesson Plans: 
Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?
Related Links: 
National Park Service: Sojourner Truth
Ohio History Central: First Women's Rights Movement
Teaching American History: Extending the Promise of the Declaration

William Lloyd Garrison founds abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator

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January 1, 1831
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
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We The People
Related Links: 
The Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison
Africans In America: William Lloyd Garrison

Phillis Wheatley, first Black American poet, born

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May 8, 1753
Related Lesson Plans: 
After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North
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We The People
Related Links: 
2002 Jefferson Lecture: "Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley"
Poetry Foundation: Phillis Wheately

Edison gives first public demonstration of incandescent lamp

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Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!

Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797–1801), is born

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Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies

Edison makes first sound recording on phonograph

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!
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American Experience: Edison's Miracle of Light

Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delaney begin anti-slavery paper “The North Star”

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December 3, 1847
Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
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Documenting the American South: The North Star

American poet Walt Whitman born

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May 31, 1819
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Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe
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We The People
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Literature of the Civil War
Walt Whitman Archive
American Experience: Walt Whitman

Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, is born

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November 25, 1835
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The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
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American Experience: Richest Man in the World

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