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Challenges in the Mathematics Education of African American Children: Proceedings of the Benjamin Banneker Association Leadership Conference by Carol E. Malloy, Laura Brader-Araje, 1998-10 The Discovery and Archeological Investigation of the Benjamin Banneker Homestead (18Ba282), Baltimore County, Maryland by Robert J. Hurry, 2000-08 Adventure Tales of Benjamin Banneker by Jody Potts, 2000-12-15 Memoir of Benjamin Banneker: Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, at the Monthly Meeting, May 1, 1845 by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, 2010-05-25 Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Saved Washington by Claude Lewis, 1970-06 Benjamin Banneker: American Mathematician and Astronomer (Colonial Leaders) by Bonnie Hinman, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, 2000-01 Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791 by Silvio A. Bedini, 1971 Benjamin Banneker (Burke, Rick, American Lives.) by Rick Burke, 2003-04 Benjamin Banneker (History Maker Biographies) by Catherine A. Welch, 2007-09 Bejamin Banneker: Mathematicia by Rose Blue, 2001-09-01 Banneker: Afro American Astronomer (Black Heritage Library Collection) by Will W. Allen, 1999-12 Benjamin Banneker Scientist and Mathematician (Black Americans of Achievement) by Kevin Conley, 1989-11 Black Heroes and Heroines Book Five: Benjamin Banneker's Great Achievements by Ida R. Bellegarde, 1985-06 The Work and Impact of Benjamin Banneker: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Elizabeth D. Schafer, 2000

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21. Posters Banneker Benjamin - Great Black Americans - Benjamin Banneker
    posters banneker benjamin Great Black Americans - Benjamin Banneker.  
    http://www.postershop.co.uk/Banneker-Benjamin/Banneker-Benjamin-Great-Black-Amer

22. Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker has been called the first African American intellectual. Selftaught, after studying the inner workings of a friend s watch,  
    http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775682.html
    
    Extractions: Reference Desk People Benjamin Banneker mathematician, astronomer, surveyor Born: Birthplace: Ellicott's Mills, Md. Benjamin Banneker has been called the first African American intellectual. Self-taught, after studying the inner workings of a friend's watch, he made one of wood that accurately kept time for more than 40 years. Banneker taught himself astronomy well enough to correctly predict a solar eclipse in 1789. From 1791 to 1802 he published the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris, which contained tide tables, future eclipses, and medicinal formulas. It is believed to be the first scientific book published by an African American. Also a surveyor and mathematician, Banneker was appointed by President George Washington to the District of Columbia Commission, which was responsible for the survey work that established the city's original boundaries. When the chairman of the committee, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, suddenly resigned and left, taking the plans with him, Banneker reproduced the plans from memory, saving valuable time. A staunch opponent of slavery, Banneker sent a copy of his first almanac to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to counter Jefferson's belief in the intellectual inferiority of blacks.

23. No. 519: Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker, The Black. He was Benjamin Banneker, a free black farmer. He d had some schooling. He d taken a liking to math and science.  
    http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi519.htm
    
    Extractions: by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 519. Today, we meet the black Poor Richard. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. A lmanacs became popular when printing was invented. The first printed almanac came out right after the Gutenberg Bible. But almanacs had been around since antiquity. Almanacs did many things. They predicted the weather and the heavens. They were fancy calendars with all the saints' and feast days. They gave bits of common wisdom, pictures, and stories, all decorated with phases of the moon. They were magazines to teach and entertain, all year round. Ben Franklin's older brother put out an almanac in the early 1700s. When Ben wrote his own almanac, he had to use a pen name. And so Poor Richard's Almanac became the most famous of them all.

24. Explore DC: Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker is one of the most interesting figures in the history of early Benjamin Banneker Warning Missing argument 4 for utility() in  
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25. Explore DC: Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker Warning Missing argument 4 for utility() in Benjamin Banneker is one of the most interesting figures in the history of early  
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26. Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker. 17311806 Banneker, being a very bright young man, faced some difficulty when it came to practicing math. He was looked down on,  
    http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/wmm/student/banneker/Bannekerw.htm

27. Benjamin Banneker * Written By Andrea Davis Pinkney
    Benjamin Banneker Reviewed by Sam E. (age 9) member(s) of the Spaghetti Book Club!  
    http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/title.php3?grade=&title=Benjamin Banneker

28. African Americans - Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker. For more indepth info on Benjamin Banneker visit Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Visit Our Other Sites  
    http://www.africanamericans.com/BenjaminBanneker.htm
    
    Extractions: Home Heritage History Civil Rights ... Organizations Web This Site Hot Topics In The News Although he spent nearly his entire life on one farm, Banneker had an important influence on how African Americans were viewed during the Federalist and Jeffersonian periods of American history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Banneker was the child of a free black father. He had little formal education, but he became literate and read widely. At 21, he built a clock with every part made of woodit ran for 40 years. After the death of his father, he lived on his father's 100-acre farm, largely secluded from the outside world, with his sisters. Self taught in the fields of astronomy and surveying, he assisted in the survey of the Federal Territory of 1791 and calculated ephemerides and made eclipse projections for

29. Benjamin_Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker s mother was Mary Banneky, whose mother, Molly Welsh, was accused of The Life of Benjamin Banneker The first AfricanAmerican Man of  
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    Extractions: Benjamin's father, Robert Bannakay, built a series of dam s and watercourses that successfully irrigated the family farm , where Banneker lived most of his life. Banneker was taught to read and do simple arithmetic by his grandmother and by a Quaker schoolmaster, who changed his name to Banneker. Once he was old enough to help on his parents' farm, his formal education ended. At 21, Banneker saw a neighbor's patent pocket watch, borrowed it, took it apart to draw all its pieces, then reassembled it, and returned it running to its owner. Banneker then carved large-scale wooden replicas of each piece, calculating the gear assemblies himself, and used the parts to make a striking clock. The clock continued to work, striking each hour, for more than 40 years.

30. Benjamin Banneker Mathematician, Astronomer
    Includes a short biography, sketch, and excerpts from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to banneker after reading his almanac.  
    http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/banneker.html

31. Benjamin Banneker's Life
    benjamin banneker s life and times. banneker was the first African American scientist.  
    http://www.progress.org/banneker/bb.html
    
    Extractions: Note although we are a nonprofit organization, we are not a 501(c)(3). Your gifts are not tax-deductible. Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland on November 9, 1731. His father and grandfather were former slaves. A farmer of modest means, Banneker nevertheless lived a life of unusual achievement. In 1753, the young man borrowed a pocket watch from a well-to-do neighbor; he took it apart and made a drawing of each component, then reassembled the watch and returned it, fully functioning, to its owner. From his drawings Banneker then proceeded to carve, out of wood, enlarged replicas of each part. Calculating the proper number of teeth for each gear and the necessary relationships between the gears, he constructed a working wooden clock that kept accurate time and struck the hours for over 50 years. At age 58, Banneker began the study of astronomy and was soon predicting future solar and lunar eclipses. He compiled the ephemeris, or information table, for annual almanacs that were published for the years 1792 through 1797. "Benjamin Banneker's Almanac" was a top seller from Pennsylvania to Virginia and even into Kentucky. In 1791, Banneker was a technical assistant in the calculating and first-ever surveying of the Federal District, which is now Washington, D.C.

32. Benjamin Banneker - Farmers Almanac
    Includes a short biography and tells about benjamin banneker writing the first Farmers Almanac.  
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33. BENJAMIN BANNEKER 1731-1806 - Mathematicians Of The African Diaspora
    Features a detailed biography as well as excerpts from a letter banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson.  
    http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html
    
    Extractions: BENJAMIN BANNEKER (below) Thomas Fuller An African mathematician in the early 1700's Charles Reason, African American mathematician in 1850 Kelly Miller, first Black graduate student A Contemporary History of Blacks in Mathematics return to SPECIAL ARTICLES Banneker Almanac Banneker Biography letters of corrections to the biography Banneker Societie s Banneker's letter to and from Jefferson top BENJAMIN BANNEKER 1731-1806 letters of corrections to the biography Molly Walsh emigrated from England to the colony Maryland as an indentured slave in bondage for seven years. When her servitude ended, Molly purchased a farm along the Patapsco River near Baltimore. and two slaves. In time she set the slaves free and married one of them, a man named Bannaky (changed from Banna Ka). They had several children, one a daughter named Mary. Mary Bannaky grew up, purchased a slave, Robert, whom she later married and lived on the family farm. On Nov. 9, 1731, a son, Benjamin, was born to Robert and Mary Bannaky. Using the Bible, Molly Bannaky taught Mary's children to read, and soon after, Benjamin would read the bible to his mother and grandmother. For those times, life was good to this little community, but work was hard, but not challenging to Benjamin. He learned to play the flute and the violin, and when a Quaker school opened in the valley, Benjamin attended it during the winter where he learned to write and elementary arithmetic. He had an eighth-grade education by time he was 15, at which time he took over the operations for the family farm. He devised an irrigation system of ditches and little dams to control the water from the springs (known around as Bannaky Springs) on the family farm. Their tobacco farm flourished even in times of drought.

34. Welcome To The Official Website Of Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
    Alternative school for about 400 students grades 912 that offers a highly structured program directed toward college admission. IB curriculum, application, summer institute, and school profile.  
    http://www.benjaminbanneker.org
    
    Extractions: It is appropriate that students who choose a rigorous course of study to prepare for post-secondary work will have the opportunity to enroll in a school that is distinguished by the name of Benjamin Banneker, noted mathematician and astronomer. "The most sensible one is he who believes himself the furthest from the goal and who, whatever advances he has made in his road, studies as if he yet knew nothing and marches as if he were only beginning to make his first advance." - Benjamin Banneker

35. Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum
    Museum dedicated to memory of this selfeducated Negro mathematician and astronomer who lived from 1731 to 1806. Includes history of banneker, the museum, museum programs, hours of operation, and directions.  
    http://www.thefriendsofbanneker.org/

36. Kulture Kidz
    Short biography and sketch.  
    http://www.aakulturezone.com/kidz/abc/benjamin.html
    
    Extractions: B enjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland on November 9, 1731. He is often known as the "First African American Scientist." He built a working wooden clock that kept accurate time and struck the hours for over 50 years. Banneker studied astronomy and he published an almanac. "Benjamin Banneker's Almanac" was a top seller from Pennsylvania to Virginia and even into Kentucky from 1792 to 1797. In 1791, Banneker helped survey the land which is now known as Washington, D.C. Home Black History Back in Time Photo Gallery ... RETURN TO THE GROWN-UPS SECTION

37. Benjamin Banneker
    Detailed biography written by students for students.  
    http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Banneker.htm?tqskip=1

38. Benjamin Banneker
    Tells the story of the man who carved America's first functional clock.  
    http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/banneker.html?tqskip=1

39. Economic Justice Headquarters Tax Reform Banneker Center
    Independent Daily News click here. The benjamin banneker Center 647 Plymouth Road Baltimore, Maryland 21229 USA EMail banneker@progress.org  
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40. Untitled Document
    Features information about the staff, student activities, PTSA, and news.  
    http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/bannekerms/

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