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Time Line On Deleny. May 6, 1812 Martin Robison Delany was born in Charles
Town, Virginia 1818 The five Delany children learn to ...
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May 6, 1812
Martin Robison Delany was born in Charles Town, Virginia
1818
The five Delany children learn to read and write using "The New York Primer and Spelling Book" given to them by a peddler, using their knowledge to write passes to enslaved blacks. They break a Virginia law against teaching enslaved people of color literacy.
1828
MRD lives and works briefly in Cumberland County after his family couldn't support his education, then returns to Chambersburg.
1831
19year old MRD set out on foot to PITTSBURGH, PA. to become a barber and laborer, later a physician's assistant (cupper and leecher), and a physician himself. In 1831, he resolved to someday visit Africa, his spiritual homeland.
1835
MRD goes to his first Negro Convention with Rev. Woodson.
1840s
MRD studies medicine with abolitionist doctors Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne of Washington County, Pa., Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam of Pittsburgh, and especially Dr. Andrew N. McDowell of Pittsburgh.
1843
Vote less, MRD begins "The Mystery," a black controlled newspaper in Pittsburgh.
1847
MRD meets Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison as they visit Pittsburgh while on a regional antislavery tour. "The North Star," co edited by Douglass and MRD is conceived during that trip.
1850
MRD goes to Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, MA to apply for admission carrying letters of support from seventeen physicians from the Pittsburgh area, gathered by Dr. LeMoyne. MRD is accepted along with two black Bostonians sponsored by the American Colonization Society, Isaac H. Snowden and Daniel Laing, Jr.
1851
MRD leaves Harvard Medical School having been allowed to complete only one of two four month terms. Martin Delany no longer believes reasoned argument and merit can persuade the dominant white culture to help deserving persons of color to become leaders in the...
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