Mathematical Digest

"BlackHistory Month 2003 Timeline," National Public Radio web site, April 2003.

Benjamin Banneker is on National Public Radio's Black History Month timelinewith the following citation: "1790: President George Washington appointsBenjamin Banneker, a free black who owns a farm near Baltimore, Md., to theDistrict of Columbia Commission. A mathematician and compiler of almanacs,Banneker works on the survey of Washington, D.C. He becomes one of the firstimportant African-American intellectuals."

--- Annette Emerson