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The Ohio Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Four prominent African American figures—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth—are among 186 nominees for the New York University Hall of Fame, with 120 electors to vote on seven admissions every five years.
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NEW YORK (ANP)—When the 120 members of the College of Electors of the New York U. Hall of Fame cast their once every five years vote on the admission of seven more American immortals to the ranks, there will be four Negroes among the 186 nominated.
They are Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906), poet; Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), Scientist who helped plan Washington, D. C.; Frederick Douglass (1817-95), abolitionist, and Isabella Hardenburg (Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883), abolitionist.
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four negroes among the 186 nominated for admission to the hall of fame, to be voted on by 120 members of the college of electors once every five years.
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The 120 members of the College of Electors of the New York U. Hall of Fame will vote on admitting seven more American immortals, with four Negroes among the 186 nominated: Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906), poet; Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), Scientist who helped plan Washington, D. C.; Frederick Douglass (1817-95), abolitionist, and Isabella Hardenburg (Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883), abolitionist.