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 to you as a present, a copy of an ...

Less than two weeks after Benjamin Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson, challenging the democratic ideology that denied liberty and humanity to blacks, Jefferson sent him a polite response (dated ...

Although the Banneker-Douglass Museum is small, it's loaded with history. It's named for the Black scientist Benjamin Banneker and Black social crusader Frederick Douglass. Both of these men were ...