The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua
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Born in 1731 to freed slaves on a farm in Baltimore, Benjamin Banneker was obsessed with math and science. And his appetite for knowledge only grew as he taught himself astronomy, mathematics, engineering, and the study of the natural world. Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua details the numerous accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker.
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Retrobituaries: Benjamin Banneker, the African-American Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C. has some links to awesome resources about Banneker and discusses the impact he had on our country’s history.
For more information on Banneker’s Almanac, and his place in the history of the United States, visit this Library of Congress site.
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- Educator Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua
- Director Jun Zee Myers
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- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen