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ARTISTS : JOAN BACCHUS WRITERS: JOAN BACCHUS HOWARD DARDEN FRANCIS TAYLOR EZRA JACKSON L YDIA CADE

To Our r~od~rs:

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further siudy 01 block history .

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the sludy 01 history . The inl"ntion 01 our publication is to implant prid"

and sell·~steem in block youth while dispelling myths in others . We bit.

lieve Ihis can be accomplished through our visual presentation 01 world·

wide achieyements in on effortless and enjoyable monner with a magazine

which con be widely distributed .

This issue canto ins endorsements Irom representatiyes 01 Ihe N. Y. C.

Boord of Education, Ihe N.A .A.C.P . , The National Urban League, The

Association for The Sto,dy 01 Negro Life and History, ond Dr. Beniamin

Quarles, eminent historian and professor of h istory 01 Morgan Siole College.

We hope that you will read, enjoy and benefit from our endeavor.

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IN 1954,ON 1HE 4$!!' A~NIVER' ~ARY OF THE DI5C.OVERY OF THE POLE, MATTHEW HENSON AND HI~WIFE WERE. HONORED AT T}iE WHITE HOUS"E BY PO:E510ENT EI5ENHOWI:R •. \'1Il. HEH~ON OliO THE NEXTYEAR, MARCH 9,1955".

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MAn-HEW "L£XANOER HEN'ON.

SPACE $CIIHTlST

In collaboration with another math.matician, Ted Skopinski, Mrs. Johnson devised the m"thod that the Motional A.ronautics and Space Ad­ministration uses to ·project at all times where on astronaut in flight is with respect to the earth.· This repolt enobled the astronauts to return from outer space to a specific area on eorth!

The report is entitled "Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position" and is one of a nu,,:,ber of technical reports to which Mrs. johnson has contributed.

Mrs. Katherine G. Johnson was born August 26, 1918, at White Sul­phur Springs, West Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Science degree summa cum la"de fralR West Virginia State College in 1937 and taught high school mathematics for tight years.

Since 1953, she h~s been a member of the science stoll of MASA's Langley Research Center working on, and developing, mathematical tech. niques used for spacecraft navigation.

Mrs. Johnson received the MASA Lunar Orbiter Project Croup Achieve­ment award for her work associated with Lunar Orbite •. The highly sue· cessful Lunar Orbiter pragrom produced live succnslul photographic flights within a single year and returned to earth hillhly detailed knowlec/ge of tM entire moan.

HIRAM R. REVELS (1822·1901)

Hiram R. Revels, the first black man 10 serve in lilt U. S. Senal., was bom free in Fgyefteville, North Carolina. $enator Rev.ls was .I.ct.d from the state of Mississippi and, 'on February 25, 1870, fi lied th. seat va· by Senator Jefferson Davis. I

Unable to obtain an education in the slate of his birth, Revels r.· ceived his education in Indiona ond allended Knox College in Illinois. H. was ordained ° minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and served as a pastor in the Northwest Territory, Kentucky and Tennessee.

When the Civil War began, Revels helped organize the first two black regiments in Maryland and while there, served as a school principal. Our. ing the wor, he served as a chaplain and as a provost marshal in Ih. Union Army.

At the end of his service in the U. S. $enale, Revels became the president of Alcorn University and the editor of a religious journal. Aft.r a lifetime of dedicated $Irvke, Hiram R. Revels died on January 16,1901.

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The illustrated magazine, Golden

Legacy, certainly lives up to its name,

telling us things of the storied past that

are well worth knowing. Each volume

catches the spirit of the times and the

personality of the participants. As one

the pages the past seems to come alive, particularly those aspects

it which up to now have generally escaped our attention.

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