America is what it is today because of the great people who have built the foundation on which society is based and have made profound achievements which greatly affected its history. It is a hard decision to decide which among the thousands deserve recognition for their accomplishments. Not many bother to look for figures who are not in the main stream and some even argue the importance of remembering specific figures that were not political …showed first 75 words of 586 total…

…showed last 75 words of 586 total…equality of men. He was intelligent enough to recognize that what was happening was not right and he did something to change the future, for that I say that he deserves to go down in the books because for a country to create its own Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.s there needs to be a Jupiter Hammon in its past planting the seeds that will grow the mighty ideas of the future.