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After attending Lincoln College in Pennsylvania, Grimké became one of the first African American students at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts, later establishing a Boston-based law firm. He also acted as consul to Santo Domingo (the Dominican Republic) and, in 1903, he became the president of the American Negro Academy until 1919. He helped found the NAACP in 1909 and became the president of the Washington, DC, chapter in 1913. In 1919, he was given the NAACP’s highest honor, the Spingarn Medal. Grimké died in 1930.
Estevanico, who was also known as Esteban the Moor, Esteban de Dorantes, Estebanico, or Mustafa Azemmouri, is believed to be one of the first Africans to reach the continental United States. As a boy, he was enslaved by the Portuguese and later sold to a Spanish nobleman. He was aboard the Spanish Narváez expedition to establish a colony in Florida in 1527. He was among the few to survive the trek through Florida, with many of the three hundred men dying along the way from attacks by Florida’s Native Americans and the state’s harsh jungle. The survivors made barges and tried to sail away to Mexico, but only eighty people survived after the boats capsized near Galveston, Texas. The Native Americans in Texas were friendly at the outset, but eventually enslaved the remaining explorers, and, after five years, only four of the eighty survived, including Estevanico.
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