Mister Barney Ford :
a portrait in bistre /
Forbes Parkhill.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Denver : Sage Books, [1963]
- Summary
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Barney Ford was an escaped slave who became a wealthy Colorado businessman and civil-rights pioneer. Born in 1822 to a white plantation owner and a black slave, he taught himself to read and write with the help of his mother. He escaped from a Mississippi river boat at the age of 26, and with the aid of the Underground Railroad he made his way to Chicago, where he became a barber. He met his wife, Julia Lyoni, there and they were married in 1849. After some unsuccessful attempts to get to California, they settled in Colorado, where they were very successful in a variety of businesses. There, Ford fought for civil rights laws including the Fifteenth Amendment. After he died in 1902, his contributions to Colorado were honored by a stained-glass window in the State Capitol, and by an elementary school named for him in Denver.--adapted from Wikipedia.
- Physical Description
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218 pages :
illustrations, portraits ;
22 cm
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