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Explore African-American History at the Banneker-Douglass Museum

Banneker-Douglass Museum is named for two African-American leaders who helped to change the course of history, Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass. Banneker was a self-taught scientist, mathematician, and inventor whose direct correspondence with Thomas Jefferson helped to further the cause of abolition in the 19th century. Douglass led the charge to end slavery by first escaping from slavery himself, and…