According to accounts that began to appear during the 1960s or earlier, a substantial mythology has exaggerated the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker, an African-American naturalist, mathematician,
Smithsonian Institution Silvio Bedini (1981)
Library of Congress Daniel A. P. Murray
William J. Thompkins (c. 1911)
Shirley Graham (1946) by Carl Van Vechten
A United States postage stamp and the names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated B
Mythology of Benjamin Banneker
…names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets, and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments since the two centuries he lived. A number of undocumented stories connecting Benjamin Banneker with the planning and survey of the federal capital…
Jerry Pinckney (2011)
Molly Banneky House (2017)
Stone Farmhouse historical marker (2017)
Museum interior (2017)