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Black Student From Florida Scores A Perfect 1600 On The SAT Exam
Justin Ricketts, a 17- year-old student from Riviera Beach, Florida, recently achieved a perfect 1600 score on the SAT. He has been ac- cepted to several prestigious universities as well.
Justin is now choosing to attend either Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Har- vard, or Princeton. He plans to pursue becoming a neurosur- geon.
“I definitely want to go to school in New England, hope- fully, so those are my top choices right now,” Justin told CBS12.
Aside from his academic achievements, Justin, who is a senior at Suncoast High School, is also active in ex- tracurricular activities. He re- cently joined a national debate in Kentucky and will serve as
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the president of the debate team at his school this fall.
Not one to take a break, Justin is also set to attend the Research Institute at MIT for an exclusive program to study visual tension.
Daniel Smith, The Son Of A Virginia Slave, Dies At The Age Of 90
Daniel Smith, an Ameri- can civil rights activist and son of a former slave, has died aged 90, his wife told CBS News. Loretta Neumann said Smith passed away at a hos- pice center in Washington on Wednesday night. She said his daughter April and son Rob were by his side.
Smith's rich life story in- cluded escaping the clutches of the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South, marching on Washing- ton with Martin Luther King Jr., and attending the inauguration of the first Black president, Barack Obama. He also represented a last link to the nation's darkest chapter: his father Abram, born in 1863 in Virginia, was briefly the property of a white man, making Smith just one gener- ation removed from slavery.
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Daniel Smith was born in Winsted, Connecticut, on March 11, 1932, the fifth of six children Abram had with his second wife, Clara.
Smith shared his incredible story in February with CBS News' chief legal correspon- dent Jan Crawford, teller
her about the messages he'd heard from his father — a freed slave.
"We are survivors," Smith told Crawford.
His father, Abram, was born into bondage in Virginia in the early 1860s. He was 70 when his youngest son, Smith, was born. Smith re- called to Crawford how his father would tell stories about the inhumanity their ancestors suffered and survived.
"Father said, 'You could hear them screaming and crying at the whipping post,'" Smith said. "But the interesting thing: my father never allowed you to talk negatively about America."
Smith told CBS News that his father believed that in the new America, his young son would have the opportunity to be great.
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