PHOTO OF THE DAY February 4, 2005  

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Where United States
When circa 1909
Photographer Unknown

"Snubbed by Robert Peary in 1909 after helping him reach the North Pole, Matthew Henson was overlooked by history as well. Discover his story and those of the Underground Railroad, African-American cowboys, and Muhammed Ali at nationalgeographic.com/history."

—From the nationalgeographic.com page, February 2003, National Geographic magazine


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