Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.Although the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. At that point, Lincoln took an active role to ensure passage through congress.incoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.
George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 â August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.
At his South Orange dental office, he used his dental tools to whittle a round stick of wood from a flagpole and affixed to it a small cup made of gutta-percha, a rubber once used to make false teeth. He brought the prototype to a woodturner, who replicated the design. Though Lowellâs golfing buddies made fun of the tee, his sons encouraged him to sell it. He had the tees, later made of birch, painted red â better to see them in the green grass â and manufactured and marketed them as the Reddy Tee.