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Franklin Massachusetts
Rebecca Stanley Mann and Thomas Mann.
He was born into a very poor family
Dead dad

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He was very unsatisfied with the school system as a kid.
- self taught by local library
- hard working
- school less than 10 weeks a year

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Enrolled as a freshman at Brown University, dropped out same year.

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Re enrolled as a sophomore.
Age 20
Became interested in Law +politics

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Studied law and social reform

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He graduated from brown university.

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He became a Latin/ Greek tutor at brown university.
Also had to be a librarian.

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Went to study law at Litchfield.

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Gets married to Charlotte Messer
- died two years latter
- moves to Boston

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Helped to open the Worcester state hospital

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Elected into the Massachusetts senate.

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Becomes president of the senate

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He started the board of education in Massachusetts (one of the first in the country).
- became the secretary
- believes that education should be free and universal

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Created the common school journal- said that schools should be more open and nurturing.

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1) School should be universal
2) Must be run by the public
3) Free for all religions, ethnicity, etc.
4) Education can be enforced with punishment
5) Must have professional teachers

He did a lot of work to unsegregate schools

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Remarried Mary T. Peabody

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He votes to abolish slave trade in the District of Colombia.

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Elected into the house of representatives in place of John Quincy Adams.

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The free soil party elected him to run for governor
- failed attempt

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He became president of the Antioch College
- Equal opportunity for African Americans

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“I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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“I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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He dies

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Over his lifetime he made the school system better for the country and for African Americans.