African American Heritage Week: Matthew Henson

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Trekking further into lesser known African American figures, let's explore the life of Matthew Henson, the Arctic explorer. Henson was born in 1866 in Maryland to freed sharecropper parents. When his father died when Henson was seven years old, he was uprooted and sent to Washington, D.C. to live with his uncle, who paid for some education, but soon passed away. Henson attended a black public ... ...more

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