GATHER PLACE - HISTORY HUNT FOR ME!

   ✏️ George Washington was the first President of the United States and the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He played a key role in securing American independence from Britain and later helped shape the new government as the nation's leader 

  ✏️ Martha Washington assisted soldiers at Valley Forge by providing comfort, food, and clothing. She helped organize supplies, sewed clothing, and offered encouragement to boost morale during the harsh winter of 1777-1778.

 ✏️ Abigail Adams urged her husband, John Adams, to "remember the ladies" when drafting new laws for the young nation. She advocated for women’s rights and warned that women might rebel if they were not given fair treatment.

 ✏️ Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. This executive order declared freedom for enslaved people in the Confederate states. 

 ✏️ Mary Todd Lincoln supported Union troops by visiting hospitals, bringing supplies, and raising funds to help wounded soldiers. She was also an advocate for the abolition of slavery. 

 ✏️ Sojourner Truth gave the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" in 1851 at the Women’s Rights  Convention in Akron, Ohio, where she argued for both women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. 

 ✏️ Lucretia Mott co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States, which launched the women's suffrage movement. 

✏️ The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote. 

✏️ Frederick Douglass published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper advocating for the end of slavery and equal rights for African Americans. 

✏️ William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, a powerful anti-slavery newspaper published from 1831 to 1865. 

 ✏️ Harriet Tubman made approximately 13 trips on the Underground Railroad, leading around 70 enslaved people to freedom and helping many more indirectly. During the America's Civil War, she was the very first women to lead an armed forces raid and helped to  emancipate 700 enslaved people along the Combahee River! 

 ✏️ John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry in Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1859, attempting to start an armed slave rebellion. He was an staunch abolitionist throughout his lifetime!

 ✏️  Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California and was a graduate of Howard University and University of California - Hastings College of Law, in 2019 Kamala Harris became the running mate with Joe Biden for the 2020 election. She became the first women of color to be the Vice President of The USA.

 ✏️ Ida B. Wells Barnett was a journalist and activist who worked to stop lynching and racial injustice in the United States. She was also a Suffragette and  marched in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913, to demand voting rights for women.

✏️ Alice Paul organized the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1913, to demand voting rights for women. 

 ✏️ Mary Church Terrell was a prominent African American suffragette who fought for both women’s rights and civil rights. Along with these additional African American Suffragettes American forgot and pictured here!

✏️ William Still was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and recorded the stories of many who escaped slavery, preserving their histories. 

 ✏️  Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a prominent leader of the women's rights movement in the 19th century. She is best known for organizing the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 with Lucretia Mott. At the convention, Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that included the first organized demand for women's suffrage in the United States. The Declaration was recognized for its sharp critique of gender inequality.  

 ✏️ Samuel Harmon was an African American Civil War soldier, and he is buried in Slate Hill Burying Ground in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Annie Harmon, his wife and they lived in Yardleyville during their lifetime. 

 ✏️  Philis Wheatley (1753-December 13 1784) was born in West Africa and was one of the first African American authors and poets. in late 1775, Phillis Wheatley wrote a poem, "To His Excellency, General Washington," and sent it to George Washington, along with a letter, which Washington later shared with a friend and had published in newspapers. One of her most famous poems include; On Being Brought from Africa to America, A Farewell to America and On Imagination. Overtime, during the Revolutionary War, Philis Wheatley would write pamphlets to inspire the rebelling colonists who were fighting against British rule. 

 ✏️ The Harlem Renaissance, a vibrant cultural movement, saw significant contributions from women writers, artists, and performers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Augusta Savage, and Bessie Smith, who explored themes of race, gender, and Black identity.  

 ✏️  Langston Hughes  (February 1st 1901 - May 22nd 1967) was  born in Joplin, Missouri during the era of Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance — Hughes was a renowned poet and playwright such as I  Too, Mulatto, Mule Bone and Let America be America Again.  Huges was also an impacting force for the Civil Rights Movement.

 ✏️ Dr. Martin Luther King was a civil rights and human rights activist. He gave his famous speech 

"I have a Dream'", at the March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

 ✏️ Rosa Parks was an African American  woman who was riding the bus from work and refused to give up her seat to  a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. In turn this sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and sparked the 1950's Civil Rights movement.

 ✏️ Barack Obama was elected as the first African American USA President in 2009 and was reelected in 2012. 

His Wife Michelle became the first African American First Lady of the USA. Following their exit from the presidency, Michelle Obama released a memoir in 2018 called Becoming Michelle.

✏️ William Penn (1644–1718) was an English writer, Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. A strong advocate for democracy and religious freedom, he is also remembered for his fair and peaceful relations with the Lenape Native Americans, establishing successful treaties during the early colonial period. 

 ✏️ Susanna Warder was connected to William Penn and his family, she was enslaved by them, lived and worked at Pennsbury Manor – The County Estate of the Penn Family located in Falls Township, PA.