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1968-02-15 Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch of the NAACP Page 4

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sent against him in 1879, and a few days later defeated and killed the Prince Napoleon, heir to the French throne. Cetewayo taught the Europeans the skirmish line in warfare.

* Prince Abd-El-Rahman, a highly educated grandson of the Emperor of Timbuctoo, was captured in battle and sold into slavery in America. Years later, a white doctor who had travelled in his land, saw him at Natchez, Mississippi. He was freed in 1829 and $4,000 was paid for the liberation of his children.

* The Rock of Gilbralter, the symbol of stability, is named after a Negro ex-slave. It is a corruption of "Gebal-tarik", or "The Mountain of Tarik."  Tarik captured the Rock which was then called Calpe, in 711 A.D. Later he conquered Southern Spain. Tarik's countrymen thereafter ruled Spain for 700 years.

* The leader of the last successful Cuban revolt in 1933 was Fulgencio Batista, a Negro sergeant from Oriente Province, who was later President of the Republic.

*During the period in West African History - from the early part of the fourteenth century to the time of the Moorish invasion in 1591, the City of Timbuktu, with the University of Sankore in the Songhay Empire, was the intellectual center of Africa.

* Jan Ernest Matzeliger, living in Lynn, Massachusetts, invented the first machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the uppers. This invention, which was eleven years in the making, revolutionized the industry and gave supremacy in the manufacturing of shoes to the United States. It made several men millionaires, one of whom left $4,000,000 to Harvard University. Overwork and privation hastened Matseliger to his grave in 1889 at the age of 37. He left a few shares of stock to a white church, which later saved it from being sold debt. 

* Deborah Gannett, was the first woman to fight in the American Army. A Negro, she posed successfully as a man for more than eighteen months. She fought under the name of Robert Shurtliff in a regiment from Massachusetts.

* Tack Sisson, A Negro, was the man who captured General Richard Prescott of the British Army, in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 9, 1777, by breaking through a door with his head.

* Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the concert singer, was born a slave in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1809, but at the early age of one year was taken to Philadelphia by a Quaker woman and educated in freedom. Her voice was said to have ranged 27 notes, from a sonorous baritone to a few notes above even Jenny Lind's highest. She was the first American Negro to win more than local recognition, making a success in Europe in the 1850's. She died in 1876.

* Ira Aldridge, born around 1807, was an actor and became the first international Negro star. He was not only a great tragedian, but an amazing comedian as well. Throughout Europe for thirty years, audiences greeted him with acclaim, and with papers showered him with praise. He died on a tour of Poland in 1867.

*The first running of the Kentucky Derby in 1875 was won by a Negro Jockey. In fact, of the fourteen horses entered in the Derby, 13 were ridden by Negroes. From the first running until 1902...Negroes were the winning riders in eleven of the derbies. Jockey Lewis in 1875; Willie Walker in 1877; Isaac Murphy in 1884, 1890, 1891; Clayton in 1892; "Soup" Perkins in 1895; Willie Sims in 1896; and Jimmie Winkfield in 1901 and 1902.

One could go on and on regarding the facts about the past of Negro Americans which

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- 4 - (Facts cont'd) sent against him in 1879, and a few days later defeated and killed the Prince Napoleon, heir to the French throne. Cetewayo taught the Europeans the skirmish line in warfare. * Prince Abd-El-Rahman, a highly educated grandson of the Emperor of Timbuctoo, was captured in battle and sold into slavery in America. Years later, a white doctor who had travelled in his land, saw him at Natchez, Mississippi. He was freed in 1829 and $4,000 was paid for the liberation of his children. * The Rock of Gilbralter, the symbol of stability, is named after a Negro ex-slave. It is a corruption of "Gebal-tarik", or "The Mountain of Tarik." Tarik captured the Rock which was then called Calpe, in 711 A.D. Later he conquered Southern Spain. Tarik's countrymen thereafter ruled Spain for 700 years. * The leader of the last successful Cuban revolt in 1933 was Fulgencio Batista, a Negro sergeant from Oriente Province, who was later President of the Republic. *During the period in West African History - from the early part of the fourteenth century to the time of the Moorish invasion in 1591, the City of Timbuktu, with the University of Sankore in the Songhay Empire, was the intellectual center of Africa. * Jan Ernest Matzeliger, living in Lynn, Massachusetts, invented the first machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the uppers. This invention, which was eleven years in the making, revolutionized the industry and gave supremacy in the manufacturing of shoes to the United States. It made several men millionaires, one of whom left $4,000,000 to Harvard University. Overwork and privation hastened Matseliger to his grave in 1889 at the age of 37. He left a few shares of stock to a white church, which later saved it from being sold debt. * Deborah Gannett, was the first woman to fight in the American Army. A Negro, she posed successfully as a man for more than eighteen months. She fought under the name of Robert Shurtliff in a regiment from Massachusetts. * Tack Sisson, A Negro, was the man who captured General Richard Prescott of the British Army, in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 9, 1777, by breaking through a door with his head. * Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the concert singer, was born a slave in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1809, but at the early age of one year was taken to Philadelphia by a Quaker woman and educated in freedom. Her voice was said to have ranged 27 notes, from a sonorous baritone to a few notes above even Jenny Lind's highest. She was the first American Negro to win more than local recognition, making a success in Europe in the 1850's. She died in 1876. * Ira Aldridge, born around 1807, was an actor and became the first international Negro star. He was not only a great tragedian, but an amazing comedian as well. Throughout Europe for thirty years, audiences greeted him with acclaim, and with papers showered him with praise. He died on a tour of Poland in 1867. *The first running of the Kentucky Derby in 1875 was won by a Negro Jockey. In fact, of the fourteen horses entered in the Derby, 13 were ridden by Negroes. From the first running until 1902...Negroes were the winning riders in eleven of the derbies. Jockey Lewis in 1875; Willie Walker in 1877; Isaac Murphy in 1884, 1890, 1891; Clayton in 1892; "Soup" Perkins in 1895; Willie Sims in 1896; and Jimmie Winkfield in 1901 and 1902. One could go on and on regarding the facts about the past of Negro Americans which