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Post by osiris on Feb 1, 2008 17:44:12 GMT -5
Okay ... so it's colored-folk month, freedom-paper month, a-break-from-the-man-disenfranchising-you-month, but the more politically correct term would be: Black History Month ...
Let's make this thread educational ....
What are some little known facts or moments, in our history, that has been suppressed by the history books or that one doesn't hear of often?
Run em'.... we just might learn something from ya'...
Osiris...
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Post by osiris on Feb 1, 2008 17:57:52 GMT -5
Here's a lil' knowledge for you Osiris...
"Did you know that you can find racism in most games? I'm tellin' you! Take this pool table, for example, the white ball knocks all of the other balls into the pockets; but it ain't over until the white ball drives the black ball completely off the table. All because, of the white mans' fear of the potency of black balls. It's racial man ... it's racial."
Martin Lawrence
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Post by msurbana on Feb 1, 2008 17:59:14 GMT -5
LOL@ you giving your ownself knowledge. That's what I am talkin bout!. This is a good thread.
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Post by osiris on Feb 2, 2008 9:48:27 GMT -5
Hey Osiris...
Did you know Black History Month originated in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week? The month of February was chosen in honor of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who were both born in the month of February.
Your Conscience,
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 2, 2008 9:57:55 GMT -5
Willie Hobbs Moore
*first African American Woman Physicist (Univ of Michigan 1972)
Shirley Ann Jackson
*second Black Woman Physicist (MIT 1973)
Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black woman to
*to earn a Ph.D. from M.I.T
*to receive a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics
*to be elected president and then chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
* to be president of a major research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
*to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
*first African American and the first woman to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
I LUV IT!
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Post by osiris on Feb 2, 2008 10:08:31 GMT -5
Don't let them out-fact you Osiris ...
1. Muhammad Ali was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
2. Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr., a physicist, mathematician and an engineer, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at age 19 from the University of Chicago in 1942.
Conscience of O...
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Post by osiris on Feb 2, 2008 10:46:52 GMT -5
Here's something that I didn't know ...
The banjo originated in Africa and up until the 1800's was considered an instrument only played by blacks ...
Hmm ... interesting.
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Feb 2, 2008 11:29:55 GMT -5
^^^Further proves that Whitey has always been biting our style. Take em back even further O!
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Feb 2, 2008 12:12:40 GMT -5
African American Man (who was enslaved) Wins Lottery in 1800, Buys his Freedom & Snitches Foil the Revolt Man Planned
I'm talking about Denmark Vesey (1767-1822), an African American who fought to liberate his people from slavery and planned an abortive slave insurrection. On May 30, 1822, George Wilson, "a favourite and confidential slave" informed his master of a planned insurrection that involved thousands of free and enslaved blacks who lived in and around Charleston.
The business & home owner, Vesey, was tried and then sentenced for execution on the 2nd of July. Additionally, four white men were tried and convicted of having encouraged the revolt, and were fined and imprisoned for their part.
This concludes American Justice
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Post by FULLOFME on Feb 2, 2008 12:23:35 GMT -5
Alexia Irene Canada became the first African-American Neurosurgeon in the United States in 1984
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Post by osiris on Feb 7, 2008 19:16:02 GMT -5
 Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man. Clarence Otis Jr. is the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc., the largest casual dining operator in the nation. The firm operates nearly 1,400 company-owned restaurants coast to coast serving 300 million meals annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has annual revenues of $6 billion. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Otis moved to Los Angeles when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor. The family lived in Watts at the time of the 1965 riots. In the post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of the color of his skin. A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a scholarship at Williams College. The highly selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. Otis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams and went on to earn a law degree at Stanford. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions attorney for J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined Darden Restaurants in 1995 as corporate treasurer. He became CEO in 2004 How many of ya'll new this... O... |
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Post by QueenOH on Feb 7, 2008 19:32:52 GMT -5
I still have this one from last year
Another little known Black History fact..... We all know about MLK, Marcus Garvey, and the other famous, more prominent black figure in history, but what about the less famous ones who have made, arguably, as
valuable contributions?
Cheryl "Peaches" Delaney of Englewood, NJ, was working the night shift at a McDonald's in 1974. The 16 year-old high school junior had just been severely reprimanded by her manager, one Arnold McFarland, over her Afro hairdo being unprofessional.
McFarland gave her an ultimatum of wearing a clown hat or being fired, and Delaney, working to save money for cosmetology school, relented and wore the clown hat! Hours later, she noticed several of her classmates at the drive-through window, on their way to a party. Luscious Jones, Fred
Williams, Eddie James, and Derrick Smith were riding in a green AMC Pacer. The four of them ordered four hamburgers, and were going to split three orders of fries and two Cokes.
Peaches, filling the order, noticing that McFarland (the manager) had taken his nightly thirty-minute bathroom break, had an epiphany. She locked eyes with Wanda, who was on fries, and Fat Sam, who was on the register and in a
blur of motion, they stuffed 4 jumbo bags with every single hamburger, cheeseburger, French fry, cookie, and other items they could find, accepting $1.01 from Luscious Jones as payment. Cheryl "Peaches" Delaney had just
invented................
"The Hook-Up"!!
We salute you Ms. Cheryl "Peaches" Delaney... A Black Leader in African-American History! Have A Good Day!!!
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