Dr. Theodore Kenneth Lawless: Dermatologist, Businessman, In Addition To Philanthropist

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRcGcZ94cEljOMHZxtltrFCSjsLNfi9iJaPTogEc1pmV22dGYIp20GzfIH2jKQUQCw-UKUXzawkf_2lVvt0JGa-c9pOMIdayYQPNXHqZjZeeRxo2MqiIPlD29p50dzDCYvlPZe5rAbcQ/s1600/Photo+of+Dr+Theodore+Lawless.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRcGcZ94cEljOMHZxtltrFCSjsLNfi9iJaPTogEc1pmV22dGYIp20GzfIH2jKQUQCw-UKUXzawkf_2lVvt0JGa-c9pOMIdayYQPNXHqZjZeeRxo2MqiIPlD29p50dzDCYvlPZe5rAbcQ/s1600/Photo+of+Dr+Theodore+Lawless.jpg" width="280" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Dr. Theodore K. Lawless (b. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Dec. 6, 1892 </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- d. May 1, 1971)</span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Dr. Theodore Kenneth "T.K." Lawless had an extensive noesis of dermatology that made him ane of the leading international peel specialists of his time.</i> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>EARLY LIFE AND TRAINING</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He was born to Rev. Alfred Lawless as well as Harriet Dunn Lawless inwards Thibodeaux, Louisiana inwards 1892. Lawless became a committed philanthropist afterwards completing extensive academic studies as well as achieving worldwide success inwards his medical practice. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He attended Talladega College inwards 1914 where he earned his B.A. In 1919, he obtained an M.D. from Northwestern University School of Medicine, as well as an M.A. in 1920 from Northwestern University. He studied dermatology at Columbia University in 1920 as well as attended Harvard University in 1921. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> From 1921-22, Lawless studied at the University of Paris. From 1922-23, he studied at the University of Freiburg, as well as from 1923-24 he studied at the University of Vienna. He became a noted lecturer inwards the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University inwards Chicago. He was too in ane trial a professor of physiology at Howard Medical School. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>MEDICAL PRACTICE</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dr. Lawless created Chicago's largest as well as only about respected dermatology clinics inwards the take in of the African American community. Patients came from across the nation for his coveted services. The clinics where located inwards the T.K. Lawless Professional Building, located at 4300 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdepsCbsHbxYB80i5Aslmd6jHa0W3e6DmumR-6WnTZDe_oHqSZuPS9Y9Ss_y54J9Nt0vQrwRRkO8jI1mCPKxkVejVaTz05nn4j7v94WC2bOpATFBhh9-HX5fYJ9abGRmW-gDwu0NGhPk/s1600-h/TK+Lawless+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdepsCbsHbxYB80i5Aslmd6jHa0W3e6DmumR-6WnTZDe_oHqSZuPS9Y9Ss_y54J9Nt0vQrwRRkO8jI1mCPKxkVejVaTz05nn4j7v94WC2bOpATFBhh9-HX5fYJ9abGRmW-gDwu0NGhPk/s320/TK+Lawless+Building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: T.K. Lawless Professional Buiding inwards Chicago at </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">4300 S. King Drive</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> His medical query contributed greatly towards establishing a cure to leprosy. His noesis inwards dermatology as well as inwards the handling of syphilis were used yesteryear both the United States of America as well as European physicians. He served every moment a consultant to the the United States of America Chemical Warfare Board. During World War II, he served on the Advisory Committee on venereal disease. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dr. Lawless donated a query laboratory to Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hospital inwards State of Israel was named afterwards him to honor his $160,000 financial donations toward establishing a dermatology hospital (Lawless Department of Dermatology) at the Beilinson Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 1954, Lawless was awarded the Spingarn Medal, the highest ranking NAACP award. By the 1960s, Ebony periodical listed Dr. Lawless amidst America's 35 Negro millionaires.</div> </div>

Dr. Theodore Kenneth Lawless: Dermatologist, Businessman, In Addition To Philanthropist

Photo: Dr. Theodore K. Lawless (b.  Dec. 6, 1892  - d. May 1, 1971) Dr. Theodore Kenneth "T.K." Lawless had an extensive ...

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African Americans Inward The Insurance Business: Supreme Freedom Life Insurance Co.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6WFIGrIueHqAL5kqF74VTUNSFCdB6_Ge3fQ6EgXt1z_Fx8N2r1l3ra3spKbTbXZrLz091pjdhiH-kom9H23SG-9m_R0Wa64517K3RIB6fx3S3qJ6yG1uZAeGbAeYxdoq93jyFOzadtB4/s1600-h/supreme+liberty+life+insurance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6WFIGrIueHqAL5kqF74VTUNSFCdB6_Ge3fQ6EgXt1z_Fx8N2r1l3ra3spKbTbXZrLz091pjdhiH-kom9H23SG-9m_R0Wa64517K3RIB6fx3S3qJ6yG1uZAeGbAeYxdoq93jyFOzadtB4/s320/supreme+liberty+life+insurance.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. Chicago 15, Illinois</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Multigraph Division, Stock Room, HOME OFFICE (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>The Supreme Life Insurance Company (formerly Liberty Life Insurance Company) was the showtime Black owned in addition to operated insurance companionship inwards the northern United States.</i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>FAIR INSURANCE POLICIES FOR BLACKS IN CHICAGO</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Frank L. Gillespie was an Arkansas-native in addition to insurance agent for Royal Insurance Company. He speedily noted the inferior lineament life insurance policy provisions offered African Americans by the White-owned insurance agency. The Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. (also referenced to equally Supreme Life Insurance Company) was incorporated inwards 1919 past times an investment grouping headed past times Gillespie. The first Black-owned insurance agency outside of the U.S. southern states offered  African Americans a ameliorate lineament life insurance than offered past times White-owned agencies of the time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">By 1921, Gillespie raised $100,000 to issue life insurance policies to Chicago's African American residents. The master offices for the young firm were set-up inwards a store-front in addition to instant floors of what was therefore known as Roosevelt State Bank. It is a two-story commercial edifice structure located at what when therefore referred to equally the corner of 35th Street in addition to South Parkway (now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive or known past times the natives equally King Drive). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjaJOfo7jiv8yGZXbzE3HcS0LtEDb5NA3c8A850AfDJZ4iM_qRRiZbhyb9ndwW-pqmUhmKGLgANdxqE-yWUe4JcgTxAPUJ1iCqU8ixKRv1xW40vBTYy_sf-npiG_mWKyy7guzpF93Zzs/s1600-h/Supreme+Life+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjaJOfo7jiv8yGZXbzE3HcS0LtEDb5NA3c8A850AfDJZ4iM_qRRiZbhyb9ndwW-pqmUhmKGLgANdxqE-yWUe4JcgTxAPUJ1iCqU8ixKRv1xW40vBTYy_sf-npiG_mWKyy7guzpF93Zzs/s320/Supreme+Life+Building.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Supreme Life Building (Chicago)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(3501 S. King Drive, cir. 1985)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Located inwards the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District of Chicago, the historic Supreme Life Building was built inwards 1921 past times architect Albert Anis. In 1924, Supreme Life Insurance Co. bought the consummate banking company edifice at 3501 S. King Drive. The Supreme Life companionship fully operated the structure from 1919 to 1962. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 9, 1998. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>PROSPERING IN BRONZEVILLE</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">By 1925, the companionship had written more than $5 meg inwards insurance policies in addition to opened branch offices inwards Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, in addition to Washington D.C. It was 1 of the few Black insurance companies to hold upwards the Great Depression. After the Great Depression, Supreme Life expanded into 1 of the nation's largest minority insurance companies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8HzPOarImVqE7NpsHo2DEXdf3509qRmPgOcYQZ6INxJWLQ_alZiIuw1o4jybi_nyNnD3LQWnI7vy_92EiqhIISPe2bU7tpdfmcxwSzBFOVzl7b8ev_77YOz-DHRBrJ97MH2J59pqyM4/s1600-h/SUPREME+LIBERTY+LIFE+INSURANCE+-+OFFICE+INTERIOR+-+SEPIA+-+c+1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8HzPOarImVqE7NpsHo2DEXdf3509qRmPgOcYQZ6INxJWLQ_alZiIuw1o4jybi_nyNnD3LQWnI7vy_92EiqhIISPe2bU7tpdfmcxwSzBFOVzl7b8ev_77YOz-DHRBrJ97MH2J59pqyM4/s320/SUPREME+LIBERTY+LIFE+INSURANCE+-+OFFICE+INTERIOR+-+SEPIA+-+c+1950.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Kiwr_ajTQR993TPqYXroKdajLkm502BX9UTcy0aUaptzxLdYH7qSZStRE4FHbS2M3yJFM3ZEGtg64A14cUoOFGZO4AVrju88it02iPzHCPVEOYZPQnnT4BqT6zOqD8KATUM8ojqN3_E/s1600-h/supreme+life+insurance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Kiwr_ajTQR993TPqYXroKdajLkm502BX9UTcy0aUaptzxLdYH7qSZStRE4FHbS2M3yJFM3ZEGtg64A14cUoOFGZO4AVrju88it02iPzHCPVEOYZPQnnT4BqT6zOqD8KATUM8ojqN3_E/s320/supreme+life+insurance.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Main Lobby - Supreme Life Insurance Co.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3501 South Parkway, Chicago Illinois (ca. 1950, postcard)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In 1960, the National Insurance Association (NIA) had 46 members. The 46 insurance companies across the acre were owned in addition to operated past times African American businessmen. Collectively, they had $1.65 trillion (not a typo) inwards insurance policies inwards force. The Supreme Life Insurance Company of America was the 3rd largest Black life insurance companionship inwards the acre at the time. In 1960, NIA was belongings $300 million in assets. <i>See</i> Abner, III, David, "Some Aspects of the Growth of Negro Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies, 1930-1960" (Indiana University 1962 doctoral thesis), p. 65, 172. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Currently inwards Chicago, African-American operated insurance companies include <a href="http://www.insurancebrokersinc.com/Life.asp">Insurance Brokers Inc.</a>, which operates its Chicago home-branch offices at locations on both Chicago's southward side in addition to N side. Insurance Brokers was founded past times the Jamaican-born employment concern human in addition to long-time Chicago native Herbert Witter. It offers various policies inwards Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania. The W.A. George Insurance Agency is too a Black owned and operated bonded insurance agency  in Chicago in addition to was established inwards 1972 past times Mercedes George. <br /> <br /> While the master NIA organization no longer exists, the National African-American Insurance Association (NAAIA) currently operates equally national association for Blacks inwards the insurance business. The <a href="http://www.naaiachicago.org/">Chicago chapter of NAAIA</a> is quite active.</div></div>

African Americans Inward The Insurance Business: Supreme Freedom Life Insurance Co.

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Black Politics: Oscar Stanton Depriest As Well As Unity Hall

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgASEgkM3HINCd3dkEh2Dl_RqWvbm1Kks_d-TVhayQ87W3pwxoi4Y-zbgWokL8CoWB7gIb4JKZ5XJvs2XannQhuqLrA4SZ_Yuaf37rQGB0IrYRNwVVB5jIev3R0kPH8dA5k-YGLQNV0vmI/s1600-h/Oscar_Stanton_De_Priest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgASEgkM3HINCd3dkEh2Dl_RqWvbm1Kks_d-TVhayQ87W3pwxoi4Y-zbgWokL8CoWB7gIb4JKZ5XJvs2XannQhuqLrA4SZ_Yuaf37rQGB0IrYRNwVVB5jIev3R0kPH8dA5k-YGLQNV0vmI/s200/Oscar_Stanton_De_Priest.jpg" width="147" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Oscar Stanton DePriest </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. March 9, 1871 - d. May 12, 1951)</b></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1915, Oscar Stanton DePriest was elected the starting fourth dimension African American City Council somebody inwards <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicago-urban-league" target="_blank">Chicago</a>. Two years after he established the People's Movement Club equally a political base of operations exterior of political party politics channels in the racially polarized city. The Unity Hall edifice housed DePriest's People's Movement Club too would cash inwards one's chips the community headquarters for other prominent Chicago politicians such equally William Dawson. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoO1mOOM5yjTlSfyd5fT0gU3teZKzqcnRWSjiB8OvJbgeDNltXKUGbySLCU0vd0b54ktjffoBKhyphenhyphen2lzuNBr69l1s8cpumtoGLkA6dKAmn5PODuvybXUroaOCNv6BCzZJgMbBY2-4hZB_E/s1600-h/depriest-button-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoO1mOOM5yjTlSfyd5fT0gU3teZKzqcnRWSjiB8OvJbgeDNltXKUGbySLCU0vd0b54ktjffoBKhyphenhyphen2lzuNBr69l1s8cpumtoGLkA6dKAmn5PODuvybXUroaOCNv6BCzZJgMbBY2-4hZB_E/s200/depriest-button-full.jpg" width="180" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Image: Early Political Campaign Button for Oscar Stanton DePriest </b></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oscar De Priest's successful election stimulate inwards Chicago's Lakeshore led the tendency toward an increase </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in Black political representation inwards the north. In 1928, De Priest became the first African American exterior the South </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">elected to Congress. His representation led to significant federal anti-discrimination legislation.</span></i></div> </blockquote> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> DePriest was specially interested inwards mobilizing voters of the quickly growing Black Belt of Chicago's Second Ward. The community where Unity Hall is located was a bustling strip of <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=chicago-urban-league" target="_blank">Chicago's South Side</a> that was noted for its cabarets too express housing. Unity Hall would serve equally a community delineate of piece of work solid to diverse organizations throughout the years.</div> <br /> From 1916 to 1919, some a one-half a 1000000 Blacks moved to Chicago's Bronzeville community. The housing crush was due to the ascension of industrialization too manufactory jobs inwards northern cities similar Chicago. This resulted inwards an influx of Blacks from the South. Couple this with apartheid-style housing restrictions and the powder keg of racial tension inwards Chicago would lead to the infamous Chicago Race Riots of 1919.</div> <br /> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <b>UNITY HALL</b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pz7WFez84dYgBsOdNQ2FBC2OTQhjbU9K-e52Uq9f3C-veOZy_-Uq_ZAFcpgAM7_4s8NDExyIm5TDA1VbMSDPWth_ZPBKGKuxBxkBe53TxA7EplI5Rg1euEFHsObXfYCAyw0pGEZtL3s/s1600-h/Unity+Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pz7WFez84dYgBsOdNQ2FBC2OTQhjbU9K-e52Uq9f3C-veOZy_-Uq_ZAFcpgAM7_4s8NDExyIm5TDA1VbMSDPWth_ZPBKGKuxBxkBe53TxA7EplI5Rg1euEFHsObXfYCAyw0pGEZtL3s/s320/Unity+Hall.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Unity Hall, 3140 S. Indiana, Chicago</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div align="center"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmSjcjIemGWcwhyphenhyphen42mV5VRradgaqxhMHqK9cJ3Ek3bWWSR2Vwa7VmME63goP2uVCt9OaOvHPb1VuyKnmoU5lrRJ77tcSUHHXof4EsUTDl6BQWGf6vH6LwgNd4wt7W8a5C8zKaazWdci8/s1600-h/unity+hall+moorish+convention.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmSjcjIemGWcwhyphenhyphen42mV5VRradgaqxhMHqK9cJ3Ek3bWWSR2Vwa7VmME63goP2uVCt9OaOvHPb1VuyKnmoU5lrRJ77tcSUHHXof4EsUTDl6BQWGf6vH6LwgNd4wt7W8a5C8zKaazWdci8/s320/unity+hall+moorish+convention.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Unity Hall, Moorish Science Convention of 1928</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Unity Hall was built inwards 1887 past times architect L.B. Dixon. The cherry-red brick too terra cotta edifice located at 3140 S. Indiana Avenue was originally built for a Jewish Social Organization called the Lakeside Club. This building is with the rare surviving 19th-century club-house architectural structures surviving inwards Chicago. This edifice construction is with the National Historic Landmarks.</div> </div>

Black Politics: Oscar Stanton Depriest As Well As Unity Hall

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Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In Addition To The Functioning Force Organization

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRY8_cWtRO998meoVHaXXwBlX47kKmY_hUmx7qI0EKkk2zXGOsvNcZ6Zk4oTmkDqDRsVa5kmJVxaDnWx8N5xj3zGzFTsc5OwvKHCb1h9oF744XMj-nHGboXasuTaiOacnwkC-e299CCmc/s1600-h/jesse+jackson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRY8_cWtRO998meoVHaXXwBlX47kKmY_hUmx7qI0EKkk2zXGOsvNcZ6Zk4oTmkDqDRsVa5kmJVxaDnWx8N5xj3zGzFTsc5OwvKHCb1h9oF744XMj-nHGboXasuTaiOacnwkC-e299CCmc/s320/jesse+jackson.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. (</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>b. Oct 8, 1941)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>On Dec 25, 1971, the immature Jesse Jackson along alongside lxx other prominent Black leaders founded Operation PUSH, a social change organization headquartered inward Chicago.</i> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>JACKSON STARTS OPERATION PUSH IN CHICAGO</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now alongside to a greater extent than than lxx affiliates across the nation, Operation PUSH focuses on Black political empowerment every bit good as encouraging increased connections betwixt Blacks in addition to American industry. The community organisation has successfully negotiated agreements with large in addition to pocket-size businesses across the field to increment fair employment practices inward hiring, promotions, franchising, in addition to sub-contracting opportunities for all Americans.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRIRAZVwM0BwZKWvAOGzFlGJOyi9l5kJmHBjbRz6aC9qpXpx8VygEOeiZKZozjPElek73awTm_UrPAq2zOfs8NxkSLLoRDcb5A2xg9O0UDf3qcLR3xcmut95GA9NRQhjnWgfdnscwGDI/s1600-h/jessejackson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRIRAZVwM0BwZKWvAOGzFlGJOyi9l5kJmHBjbRz6aC9qpXpx8VygEOeiZKZozjPElek73awTm_UrPAq2zOfs8NxkSLLoRDcb5A2xg9O0UDf3qcLR3xcmut95GA9NRQhjnWgfdnscwGDI/s320/jessejackson.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 immature Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">and others on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel inward Memphis</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged the youthful Jackson to croak a potent community activist inward Chicago in addition to inward the nation. Jesse Jackson, Sr. launched his national political career from the Operation PUSH headquarters. The organisation served every bit the base of operations where Jackson launched his U.S. presidential campaigns inward 1984 in addition to 1988. <br /> <br /> <b>THE RAINBOW PUSH COALITION BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsOXV-e8nFm0Uz82FWMRetucE-HzaUlnlzCgzLdInUbgw-gQgHvABRZGmxj90IcC3XTV_usXCwJIE7GQI_zRHFZK8lUHpVW7ciWT_i7mV12eQNb3pL7QjkAkh7UcgY1-_oesK2fB-GAc/s1600-h/OPERATION+PUSH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsOXV-e8nFm0Uz82FWMRetucE-HzaUlnlzCgzLdInUbgw-gQgHvABRZGmxj90IcC3XTV_usXCwJIE7GQI_zRHFZK8lUHpVW7ciWT_i7mV12eQNb3pL7QjkAkh7UcgY1-_oesK2fB-GAc/s320/OPERATION+PUSH.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Operation Push National Headquarters</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The national headquarters for Operation PUSH was built inward 1923. It was originally built for the Kehilath Anshe Ma'arive (K.A.M.) congregation, the oldest Jewish congregation inward Chicago. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. in addition to other community organizers purchased the edifice inward 1971. The Rainbow Coalition was founded past times Jackson inward 1985 in addition to was housed inward the edifice at 930 E. 50th Street. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surrounding the Operation PUSH headquarters are older generation mansions lining Drexel Boulevard inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago's South Side. In his classic run <i>Native Son</i>, author Richard Wright chronicles the life of a immature Black human from the community where the picturesque edifice stood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition was subsequently merged and renamed <a href="http://www.rainbowpush.org/PHP/results.php">The Rainbow PUSH Coalition</a>. It advocates in both U.S. civil rights in addition to international human rights efforts. This historic edifice continues has served every bit a voter registration centre and labor mediation site for many years.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZUvNiTkAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZUvNiTkAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Video: Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2) continues his father's legacy </span></b><br /> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">of political activism. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here he speaks in the Operation PUSH building in 2006 </span></b><br /> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">where he launched </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">his political motion for the Chicago Mayor post.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blachisthero-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0743291441&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></i></div></div>

Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In Addition To The Functioning Force Organization

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Anthony Overton: A Dark Manufacturer, Banker, Lawyer In Addition To Publisher

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRIln0UafXM1CDqEMT75GAnYipNMSPBJ-k6UpDh4AyPc_9Kg7TNg8EUBMEj6fUG-HII7tA5aOJUUUr7nF51YdJqbSWQx7zXQ1pMtu4P1xU8E2fpV6NeW4N1BmpEZMReUC2wVQzpNg4lU/s1600/Photo+of+Anthony+Overton+manufacturer+entrepreneur+banker+lawyer+businessman+african+americans+business.jpg" width="229" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Anthony Overton (b. March 21, 1865 - d. July 2, 1946)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i>On March 21, 1865, Anthony Overton was born into slavery in Monroe, Louisiana. It was non until Dec 18, 1865 that slavery legally ended inwards the United States. Overton became a pioneering manufacturer, banker, lawyer together with businessman. Much of his employment organisation operations arose amid the African American community inwards Chicago.</i> <br /> <br /> <b>ANTHONY OVERTON</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The boy of Anthony together with Martha (Deberry) Overton, Anthony Overton was educated at Washburn College together with would equally good graduate from the University of Kansas where he earned a Bachelor of Laws. He graduated from the University of Kansas constabulary school. He skilful constabulary for a fourth dimension together with fifty-fifty served equally a gauge earlier concentrating on developing his employment organisation operations.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In 1898, Overton established the Hygienic Manufacturing Company inwards Kansas City. In 1911, he moved operations to Chicago where he manufactured baking powder, privy preparations, together with other extract products. He soon launched the High-Brown Products label where he produced a full-line of ladies fine cosmetics together with perfumes inwards Chicago. </div>   <br /> <b>OVERTON HYGIENIC BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s1600-h/hygienic+building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV3IZHCoZx_Bkiibw6LKupNGyabDl9I9kkWmgOMwNmrbdpaUbQgu0CZKexFKRYQAsFI5mNxeQ04vibve8lvaiVmQnX-PY270cTfKeC4X83GvGdBIln-qujQTbHAOhxP2_XQnLBahS2tY/s320/hygienic+building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Overton Building (photograph from Commission on </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago Historical together with Architectural Landmarks)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s1600-h/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDfpHRLDRKMNy_3SGxRYyA4s2zqZcmtTLlD7BL-q3MMekCj4I2uxHUDD6vUinyh-JeFKmXNb0lglYU9RnHit4Rgsk4_-MNrQOgLFa9P0LJp6nHbVMIfS9pJVjYfC5Q78fw5fIIEdZXaM/s320/overton+hygienic+building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Overton Hygienic Building inwards Chicago Today</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Anthony Overton developed a major employment organisation conglomerate inwards Chicago that began its operations from this Overton Hygienic Building. In 1922, Overton commissioned architect Z. Erol Smith to blueprint together with build the Overton Hygienic Building. In add-on to hygienic assist products, Overton would run the <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper franchise, Victory Life Insurance Company, Douglass National Bank, together with Northern Realty Company from this employment organisation facility together with his minute building, The Chicago Bee Building. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Overton Hygienic Building was later known inwards history equally the Palace Hotel. The edifice is immediately owned yesteryear the Mid-South Planning together with Development Commission, which announced plans to role the edifice equally an incubator for small-scale businesses inside the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District neighborhood. The Overton Hygienic Building is a Chicago Landmark together with constituent of the historic Bronzeville District inwards the Douglas community surface area of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 3619-3627 State Street.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <br /> <b>THE CHICAGO BEE BUILDING</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s1600-h/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8M0U1IpsbWPbExv7OeHXQSncWN3vw-u06vsLPWkyTu4AYi8QUnRehmyaPpeATA4blmy0qNYIlGFIijjOwppqtZ22oH73xRuzQQksa9RAxuSHighyphenhyphenNqiLkz34wbQQ7_3sQt4oK3pKAhrI/s320/Chicago-Bee-Building.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Chicago Bee Building</span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s1600-h/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDsjzzfFWibEY1uz550mEocSDagzAbQ0ydU9wkGidisu1nKIUXz7xidhfoM77xhUc08XraWqEJx5Qkn4k-8CvWNmsrL3itVbIOaYM4TX1OD_MEfGlta1o_uJJIWQRsP8rmGyugE-NwPE/s320/Chicago+Bee+Building.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Bee Building, immediately known equally The Bee Branch Library</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1926, The <i>Chicago Bee</i> paper publishing employment organisation was founded equally ane of Chicago's <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=robert-s-abbott-and-growth-of-black">African American newspapers</a>. Overton affirmed his confidence inwards the viability of the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville Chicago yesteryear commissioning architect Z. Erol Smith ane time again to blueprint a novel three-story edifice to operate his novel paper publishing employment organisation inwards a separate facility equally his query together with development, together with manufacturing operations. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Chicago Bee Building features a richly ornamented facade executed alone inwards terra cotta. It was ane of the some picturesque of the historic buildings inwards Bronzeville -- at the fourth dimension the only ane designed inwards the Art Deco mode of the belatedly 1920s.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s1600-h/chicago+bee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWp5AfG8a8hMLJ4jltl0HN0IRVHIbQJwKEfxVMIXPvLkGXugtj4SUO2Sj9RYSshjwWrm1HK7VXEdkdNAHXwB0kQVt0TcH3EcxzgkET5hEJc8ZpC-C_DbkEjVDTRwMQl_DAebTqNqYCMI/s320/chicago+bee.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Librarian Jo Willis poses in forepart of the Art Deco doors of the Chicago Bee Building</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Although structure started at the starting fourth dimension of the Great Depression, the edifice was gear upward for occupancy yesteryear 1931. In add-on to the <i>Chicago Bee</i> newspaper, the edifice would identify the offices of the Overton Hygienic Company after the Douglass National Bank unopen inwards 1932. The paper unopen inwards the early on 1940s. The Anthony Overton Elementary School on Chicago's South Side was afterwards named inwards honor of this bang-up African-American businessman. </div> </div>

Anthony Overton: A Dark Manufacturer, Banker, Lawyer In Addition To Publisher

Photo: Anthony Overton (b. March 21, 1865 - d. July 2, 1946) On March 21, 1865, Anthony Overton was born into slavery in Monroe, Lo...

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Nina Simone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="244" width="325"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GUcXI2BIUOQ&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GUcXI2BIUOQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="244" width="325" wmode="transparent" /> </object></div><div align="center"><b>Video: Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/)</b> </div><div align="center">(b. Feb 21, 1933 – d. Apr 21, 2003) </div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Born inward Tryon, North Carolina, Eunice Kathleen Waymon became best known yesteryear her phase mention Nina Simone ane time she completed her studies at Juilliard School of Music as a classical pianist. She performed folk, jazz, blues, together with mortal music to alive audiences throughout Africa, the Caribbean Area Islands, the EU, together with US. Ms. Simone's music performances were roughly of the most classic stage productions inward the history of American music.</div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_5HJCNcnFvZaeCiagCSt1bSQR9Y4XFmmjDz1OMr35pGRAm4Tpry2XagzyyAOgmr1-EFNibfEMMdlB0VdoFCnIvAzsBE5Otu3j8fNRQqci6V8Bzry0WfCBwllyHKocC6NqyhYUfA-HEo/s1600-h/nina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_5HJCNcnFvZaeCiagCSt1bSQR9Y4XFmmjDz1OMr35pGRAm4Tpry2XagzyyAOgmr1-EFNibfEMMdlB0VdoFCnIvAzsBE5Otu3j8fNRQqci6V8Bzry0WfCBwllyHKocC6NqyhYUfA-HEo/s320/nina.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo of Nina Simone</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div align="center"><object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qCwME6Jpn3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qCwME6Jpn3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div></div>

Nina Simone

Video: Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/) (b. Feb 21, 1933 – d. Apr 21, 2003) Born inward Tryon, North Carolina, Eunice Kathleen Waymon be...

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Black Entertainment: Chicago's Historic Palm Tavern Eating Seat Together With Music Club

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s1600-h/palmtavern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s320/palmtavern.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Palm Tavern inwards Chicago's Black metropolis-Bronzeville, cir. 1941</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>The Palm Tavern was a "must do" functioning halt for the Who's Who of Jazz performers. It was located inwards Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District at 446 East 47th Street inwards Chicago, Illinois from 1931 to 2006.</i>  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE HISTORY OF THE PALM TAVERN</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Established inwards either 1931 or 1933, the master possessor of Palm Tavern was James Knight. Gerri Oliver purchased the Palm Tavern from the master owners inwards either 1951 or 1956, the later on appointment is reported yesteryear the Chicago Sun-Times. Nearby the Palm Tavern was the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Regal Theater</a>, the mid-south mecca for Black music performers who passed the give-and-take that when playing a Chicago gig at the Regal Theater, Oliver's cherry beans together with rice were non to survive missed. <br /> <br /> An unbelievable number of musicians performed at this Bronzeville community institution for to a greater extent than than 75 years. The many names together with stories of which are inwards someone photograph together with memorabilia collections, such equally the Gerri Oliver Collection, Abbott Sengstacke Collection, together with Getty Images Collection.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE AND THE PALM TAVERN </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Historians volition oftentimes disagree on when a Renaissance begins together with ends. The Black Chicago Renaissance occurred roughly the same times equally the Harlem Renaissance, namely inwards the 1920s together with 1930s. Most commentators grade the beginning of the Black Chicago Renaissance equally the early 1930s, fueled yesteryear the Great Migration of African American Americans from the South.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern attracted artists from music to writers. The Palm Tavern was abode away from abode for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, the Ink Spots, Josephine Baker, together with other notable musicians. It was frequented yesteryear Richard Wright together with <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Langston Hughes</a>. The famous belatedly poet together with author Gwendolyn Brooks resided inwards this South Side community.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s1600-h/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s320/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Early Palm Tavern postcard </span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern was likewise remainder together with rest house of selection for Chicago's Black middle class. Its era during the Chicago Renaissance is preserved inwards the priceless collection of sepia photographs together with memorabilia enshrined along the walls, equally a will to the history of its service to the community. Gerri Oliver volition cheerfully indulge curious customers amongst aging chip books. Before purchasing the establishment she served equally a waitress for many years at the Palm Tavern.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s1600-h/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s320/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern patrons put for the camera</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> This historic photograph notes the patrons are at the Palm Tavern on Apr 12, 1939. The nighttime of the inauguration of members of the City Council of Chicago. Beginning left to right: Alderman Earl B. Dickerson, sec Ward; Alderman Benjamin A. Grant, tertiary Ward; Kathryn Dickerson together with Erma Grant.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>THE PALM TAVERN IN RECENT HISTORY</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> In 1983, Chicago's Palm Tavern hosted the grassroots fundraiser that would termination inwards the election of Chicago's firstly Black Mayor, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Harold Washington</a>. The history of the Palm Tavern did non alive on equally this blogger notes that the legendary institution was demolished. According to some other blogger, the film below was the country of the Palm Tavern inwards the jump of 2006.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s1600-h/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s320/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern, cir. jump 2006 amongst blogger noting that </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gerri Oliver was withal operating the concern a few years</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">before this film was taken. </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s1600-h/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s320/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern grounds photograph cir. Oct 2006</span></b></div> </div>

Black Entertainment: Chicago's Historic Palm Tavern Eating Seat Together With Music Club

Photo: The Palm Tavern inwards Chicago's Black metropolis-Bronzeville, cir. 1941 The Palm Tavern was a "must do" fun...

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The Dark Church Building Every Moment Civil Rights Headquarter As Well As Community Center: Chicago's Quinn Chapel Ame Church Building As Well As Olivet Baptist Church

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mZRcjw5dXAWaSmR-4F5FwvYUont03Y_sReCWvPSsFtKeviG8Id75zIedQq1wmTRK697dixEjGTB2RKo93gZDNLA82IY8cNzA9jnGOtCH17xjq_bDk3JD2DH7hSQDuq3R2QoK9x4-M20/s1600-h/quinn+chapel+chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mZRcjw5dXAWaSmR-4F5FwvYUont03Y_sReCWvPSsFtKeviG8Id75zIedQq1wmTRK697dixEjGTB2RKo93gZDNLA82IY8cNzA9jnGOtCH17xjq_bDk3JD2DH7hSQDuq3R2QoK9x4-M20/s320/quinn+chapel+chicago.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo: Quinn Chapel Church inwards Chicago</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b>QUINN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Founded inwards 1844, the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church is Chicago's oldest Black religious congregation. The church building was named later on Bishop William Paul Quinn, a fundamental figure inwards the westward expansion of African Methodism. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1850, the U.S.A. Congress passed a to a greater extent than severe Fugitive Slave Law which said that whatever white mortal amongst no to a greater extent than than a sworn witness could claim a Black mortal equally his escaped slave together with legally secure the private to petition earlier a federal commissioner. In its swift reaction, Quinn Chapel passed a resolution stating “We who bring tasted liberty are laid upwards to exclaim, inwards the linguistic communication of Patrick Henry: 'Give us liberty, or give us death.'” The congregation at ane time mobilized its forces to picket for slave hunters. </div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9KPkB2dSvdKW2fv7amkqSyS9OKMliK7FsupcMliYbRKd37eqHqKDAJu2Tud8iQcDi28OtmW_FIoZDqn9HNI27NKApPz_IjgwlnmGsjpHgvSwxa2HcyzHbX2b-gLPLtX4exGikgvo0mA/s1600-h/quinn+chapel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9KPkB2dSvdKW2fv7amkqSyS9OKMliK7FsupcMliYbRKd37eqHqKDAJu2Tud8iQcDi28OtmW_FIoZDqn9HNI27NKApPz_IjgwlnmGsjpHgvSwxa2HcyzHbX2b-gLPLtX4exGikgvo0mA/s320/quinn+chapel.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Quinn Chapel's pulpit has been graced amongst Black leaders such equally Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, together with doc Martin Luther King, Jr. Quinn Chapel helped constitute the Bethel A.M.E. Church, Wabash Avenue YMCA, together with Provident Hospital, the starting fourth dimension Black-owned infirmary inwards the nation. The electrical flow gray-stone brick edifice of this Black establishment is designed inwards a Romanesque architectural mode that was erected inwards 1892. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church is located at 2401 S. Wabash Avenue inwards Chicago, Illinois.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5JaCp5MD_5n_j9elhluiN7gbB_ZnMnzbIH07OQ0cX14C7Rs9ofIP844lVRS4Wn_slfymS9Oh0a8pEHhos5t2uh_ukUOyPhF-h_CUtP9Og3AVvWQO2uRdW3UTuGQ9zh0xQcxUHy84t84/s1600-h/olivet+church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5JaCp5MD_5n_j9elhluiN7gbB_ZnMnzbIH07OQ0cX14C7Rs9ofIP844lVRS4Wn_slfymS9Oh0a8pEHhos5t2uh_ukUOyPhF-h_CUtP9Og3AVvWQO2uRdW3UTuGQ9zh0xQcxUHy84t84/s320/olivet+church.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo: Olivet Baptist Church</b></div> <br /> <b>OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Olivet Baptist Church is ane of the oldest Baptist churches inwards Chicago. Founded Apr 6, 1850, this congregation was an active station on the Underground Railroad. Its pastor was a leading fellow member of the Vigilance Committee which was organized to assist runaway slaves together with struggle the Fugitive Slave Law. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By the 1920s, nether the leadership of Lacy Kirk Williams, who became pastor of the church building inwards 1915, Olivet Baptist Church became ane of the close prominent Black churches inwards the nation. From 1915 to 1920, the church's membership to a greater extent than than doubled. Under the leadership of Williams, Olivet was non alone a religious middle but a community center. During this time, a full-time staff of xvi operated a programme that included a undertaking bureau, nursery, kindergarten, a private welfare department, inwards improver to a community lodge family together with athletic facilities. Olivet Baptist Church is located at 401 E. 31st Street inwards Chicago, Illinois.</div> </div>

The Dark Church Building Every Moment Civil Rights Headquarter As Well As Community Center: Chicago's Quinn Chapel Ame Church Building As Well As Olivet Baptist Church

Photo: Quinn Chapel Church inwards Chicago QUINN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH Founded inwards 1844, the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Epi...

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African Americans Inwards Paris

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s1600-h/blacks+in+paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s200/blacks+in+paris.jpg" width="258" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>African American Entertainers inwards Paris</b></div> <br /> Since the early on 1800s, the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage. The City of Lights has also obtained a particular house inwards the hearts of the African American expatriate inwards search of artistic together with intellectual liberty inwards Europe. <br /> <br /> <b>BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS</b><br /> <br /> <b><i>The Literati</i></b><br /> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i34.tinypic.com/1124qq9.gif" width="237" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: African American author James Baldwin sits inwards a Paris window.</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In Black literature, James Baldwin is good known for his love of Paris together with would arrive at the destination of his life on French soil. Baldwin said that it took him going to Paris to larn what it meant to endure an American.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The author Richard Wright is known to convey frequented the Latin Quarter together with Saint-German-des-Prés of Paris together with may convey best described what the Black expats searched for most: "[a]ll of my life I had been sum of a hunger for a novel agency to live." (from <i>Black Boy</i>).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Paris inwards 1924 industrial plant life the poet Langston Hughes scraping yesteryear from meager payoff from working inwards ane of Montmartre's most pop nighttime clubs. Notwithstanding, Hughes described his fourth dimension inwards Paris every bit "a dream come upwards true". Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Chester Himes are with the other historical Black literati of Paris.</div> <br /> <b><i>The Entertainers</i></b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="265" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/fofww4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894–1984)</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(cir. 1934, photographer Carl Van Vechten)</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The singing together with dancing saloon-owner Ada "Bricktop" Smith operated Chez Bricktop at 66 rue Pigalle that became a beacon of Parisian night-life from 1924 to 1961. Chez Bricktop's broad appeal is noted from its presence inwards the writings of Ernest Hemingway together with T.S. Eliot. The poet Gwendolyn Bennett describes a 1925 eve at Chez Bricktop inwards his diary every bit follows:</div> <br /> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>"Then at 4:15 A.M. to beloved quondam ‘Bricktop’s’ ... extremely crowded this nighttime with our folk. Lottie Gee at that topographic point on her starting fourth dimension nighttime inwards town together with sings for ‘Brick’ her hitting from ‘Shuffle Along’—‘I’m Just Wild About Harry.’ Her phonation is non what it powerfulness convey been together with she had every bit good much champaign [sic] but soundless at that topographic point was something rattling personal together with beloved nigh her singing it together with nosotros colored folks only applauded similar mad." (Diary of Gwendolyn Bennett, entry of 8 Aug. 1925, <a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg/about/history">Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture</a>, New York.)</i></div> </blockquote> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also of banking concern complaint with the entertainers, Josephine Baker is in all probability best known. New-Orleans born Sidney Bechet, called the founding manlike somebody nurture of Jazz, also made a postage stamp on the metropolis when he opened the "Chez Sidney" cabaret inwards 1951. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s1600-h/sidney+1950s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s320/sidney+1950s.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet with Christian Azzi at the pianoforte (cir. 1950s, Paris)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s1600-h/sidney+bechet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s320/sidney+bechet.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)</span></b></div> <br /> <i><b>The Fine Artists</b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Montparnasse has historically been of cardinal import inwards the fine arts world, together with a release of African-American creative somebody worked together with lived along its sixth together with 14th arrondissements.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fine artists Palmer Hayen, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Albert Alexander Smith, together with Hale Woodruff convey all lived together with produced works inwards Paris. In 1996, the paintings of Lois Mailou Jones were featured inwards an fine art exhibition entitled "Paris, the City of Light".</div> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><i><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/5bwlrk.gif" width="315" /></i></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailou Jones  (b. 11/3/1905 - d. 6/9/1998) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(picture cir. 1936)</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s1600-h/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s320/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailous Jones inwards her studio.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> </div> <i><b>Black Paris' Historic Haunts</b></i><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s1600-h/hell+fighters.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s200/hell+fighters.bmp" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The 369th Infantry Regiment ("Harlem Hellfighters") </b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(cir. Dec 27, 1917)</b></span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For the historical buffs, the Champs Elysees volition resound every bit the house where the "Harlem Hellfighters" received a hero's welcome later World War I (WWI). The Harlem Hellfighters were the starting fourth dimension all-black U.S. combat unit of measurement to endure shipped overseas during WWI.<br /> <br /> On a to a greater extent than controversial note, a Paris street marking volition right away the traveler to the residence where the 1787 rendezvous betwixt the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is reported to convey occurred. This Paris rendezvous resulted inwards the nascency of a tiddler betwixt Jefferson together with Hemings that would add together African-lineage to the Jefferson household unit of measurement tree.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There are a growing release of Black Paris tours. H5N1 lilliputian reading, however, volition brand move to Paris a to a greater extent than memorable experience. In perusing the ample literature you lot may endure inspired to search out the bistros together with cafes where your favorite Black author sipped coffee, or to study the landscape that inspired ane of the many Lois Mailou Jones' Paris landscapes. </div> <div> </div> <br /> <i>For Further Reading:</i><br /> <ul> <li><i>Giovanni's Room, yesteryear James Baldwin (Delta)</i></li> <li><i>Black Girl inwards Paris, yesteryear Shay Youngblood (Riverhead)</i></li> <li><i>Harlem inwards Montmartre: H5N1 Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars, yesteryear William A. Shack (George Gund Foundation Book inwards African American Studies)</i></li> <li><i>New Negro Artists inwards Paris: African American Painters together with Sculptors inwards the City of Light, 1922-1934, yesteryear Teresa Leininger-Miller (Rutgers University Press)</i></li> </ul> </div>

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African Americans On Maui Association

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1266594054092"></span><span id="goog_1266594054093"></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> As business office of the 2010 Black History Month, the African Americans on Maui Association hosts a novel mass unloosen launch of African Americans inward Hawaii: H5N1 Search for Identity," compiled together with edited past times Ayin M. Adams, Ph.D., followed past times a Special Awards Ceremony. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Full listing of <a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/event?id=13436">Black History Month Events on Maui</a>, including events at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMR09cWLzfhosVgtZsQjD50mv-53iTqOdIDS0VcmCAP9_7WzENBgF-W0colHf-8Y2lyCUHYmaKFIcE3kZLJJHfYoxJxWzpZxxGcYgH4fI9_MPQa3nBkXziUoQt3ui6JhmBT5yIzDMYI2Y/s1600-h/Black+History+Month+on+Maiu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMR09cWLzfhosVgtZsQjD50mv-53iTqOdIDS0VcmCAP9_7WzENBgF-W0colHf-8Y2lyCUHYmaKFIcE3kZLJJHfYoxJxWzpZxxGcYgH4fI9_MPQa3nBkXziUoQt3ui6JhmBT5yIzDMYI2Y/s640/Black+History+Month+on+Maiu.jpg" width="446" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Post script</em></strong>: back upwards efforts of local Hawaiian community to preserve African American historical heritage on the isle past times </span><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/147/830/903/save-preserve-hawaiis-african-american-200-years-cultural-heritage/#" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">signing this petition</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. In 2015, the petition is to hold upwards submitted inward back upwards of a proposal to the Hawaii State Legislature to found a Hawaii Commission to Preserve the Cultural Heritage of People of African descent in Hawaii.</span> </div> </div>

African Americans On Maui Association

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Antiguan's Observe U.S. President Barack Obama Alongside Mountain Obama

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis7q1X6YZ456YqayWVVRQ2OXfxQOcXv-nsJApuf6L1wRhyphenhyphenuc3yD8vRHmJu19VbsOd33vtaRwzVb7R8eCvPxjDRvqp-vncHCufJ-yTSCv2dLPdHrmSUVuoW3HsZjIc1got4vaNFUuNA2OI/s1600-h/barack+hussein+obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis7q1X6YZ456YqayWVVRQ2OXfxQOcXv-nsJApuf6L1wRhyphenhyphenuc3yD8vRHmJu19VbsOd33vtaRwzVb7R8eCvPxjDRvqp-vncHCufJ-yTSCv2dLPdHrmSUVuoW3HsZjIc1got4vaNFUuNA2OI/s320/barack+hussein+obama.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II</b></span></div><br /> <i>Barack H. Obama II is the 44th President of the United States, in addition to kickoff African American to concord the post. Born on August 4, 1961, Obama's storey is a dual one: the American storey of values from the heartland of America in addition to the African storey of perseverance of the African spirit.</i><br /> <br /> <b>Mount Obama</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">Antigua announced the renaming of its tallest mount peak equally Mount Obama on Jan. 20, 2009, inward accolade of the kickoff Black president of the United States. Mount Obama was named on August 4, 2009, mark President Barack Obama's 48th birthday. Located inward St. John's, Antigua, Mount Obama is utilization of the two-island province of Antigua in addition to Barbuda. This is the Caribbean Area nation's highest honor. </div><br /> <div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5CcehMsjzOs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5CcehMsjzOs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">"As an emancipated people linked to our mutual ancestral heritage in addition to a history of dehumanizing enslavement, nosotros postulate to at all times celebrate our heroes in addition to leaders who through their actions inspire us to create corking in addition to noble things," said Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer at the renaming inauguration that drew most 300 at the base of operations of the mountain, nigh the island's southern coast, inward St. John. (Huffingtonpost.com, 8/4/09).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYusb_jeoLE62b51tUbBigGzPtOY7VNF1mdEkJiNj_0XeK0GeoDJGMWKY321NDukWZ83yaCh8J5qUjXTGWOCMwqKyBNbWPIs6ChCG61G7MEqFb62hG3iqYGFzUguqlGbHDzxPiHnhTTM/s1600-h/antigua_barbuda.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYusb_jeoLE62b51tUbBigGzPtOY7VNF1mdEkJiNj_0XeK0GeoDJGMWKY321NDukWZ83yaCh8J5qUjXTGWOCMwqKyBNbWPIs6ChCG61G7MEqFb62hG3iqYGFzUguqlGbHDzxPiHnhTTM/s320/antigua_barbuda.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Antigua & Barbuda</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Originally known equally Boggy Peak, Mount Obama has been a pop hiking mount at 1,300 feet (395 meters) inward a higher identify the bounding main inward Antigua, a corking goal for hikers in addition to identify unit of measurement travelers.</div></div></div>

Antiguan's Observe U.S. President Barack Obama Alongside Mountain Obama

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Black Media Mogul: Oprah Winfrey

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6211_fXHg5HvAf5xvzvECo_HehF0uUuZfQIqcRhCgGzfZTrFDj3Mz39eZqRqAfa3ZXcTr6e82WYcs-RBmsye6-gKnVnagoUAV0qJjpKZeRg7cbD2oKKDxkdWVcpEn1CSgLhR-cK0PDo/s1600-h/Oprah_Winfrey_with_Barack_and_Michelle_Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6211_fXHg5HvAf5xvzvECo_HehF0uUuZfQIqcRhCgGzfZTrFDj3Mz39eZqRqAfa3ZXcTr6e82WYcs-RBmsye6-gKnVnagoUAV0qJjpKZeRg7cbD2oKKDxkdWVcpEn1CSgLhR-cK0PDo/s320/Oprah_Winfrey_with_Barack_and_Michelle_Obama.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Oprah Winfrey on the U.S. Presidential drive trail </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>with Chicagoans Barack as well as Michelle Obama</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div>Originally named "Orpah" Gail Winfrey on Jan 29, 1954 inward Mississippi, Ms. Winfrey would hold to decease a leading idiot box speak present host, celluloid actress, producer as well as philanthropist. She is the showtime Black adult woman as well as solely the tertiary adult woman inward history, behind Mary Pickford as well as Lucille Ball, to ain a celluloid production studio. Harpo Studios, located inward Chicago, serves every bit a will to Winfrey's historic legacy.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWG06ZKrj6lCkg8GQiT6xV6bntV-Wqr2wJ0cKYFCfNwp4i2B9_LB7XJ78fhaQSar3QWF7w-lXyAiOSg3P2GP-JlgtB7TT9yiNWzJuCkSHt0wRgER-f2Bmp6tancLjdkgTRRgaybsAISI/s1600-h/Harpo+studios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWG06ZKrj6lCkg8GQiT6xV6bntV-Wqr2wJ0cKYFCfNwp4i2B9_LB7XJ78fhaQSar3QWF7w-lXyAiOSg3P2GP-JlgtB7TT9yiNWzJuCkSHt0wRgER-f2Bmp6tancLjdkgTRRgaybsAISI/s320/Harpo+studios.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Harpo Studios is located on the Westside of Chicago, Illinois </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>at 1058 W. Washington Boulevard</b></span> </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9AimcrmXQ-UKq-KWA05zVI9TEQlBwN3XbhZgIWph1vQIJh_PqoJVFSlVA6G2IYcv8HghVRHO_FMVsecNmBIKaxRJlhA0XooGL1pQDHU9mOhicuvyV47lY7IWzi_NE4jsWrgaLcdpewo/s1600-h/HarpoStudiosOprahMarquee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9AimcrmXQ-UKq-KWA05zVI9TEQlBwN3XbhZgIWph1vQIJh_PqoJVFSlVA6G2IYcv8HghVRHO_FMVsecNmBIKaxRJlhA0XooGL1pQDHU9mOhicuvyV47lY7IWzi_NE4jsWrgaLcdpewo/s320/HarpoStudiosOprahMarquee.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Entrance agency into The Oprah Winfrey Show inward Chicago </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>on the production campus of Harpo Studios</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The edifice construction that right away houses the Harpo Studio production facilities was originally built inward the early on 1900s. In 1952 the 88,000 foursquare pes complex was converted into a production studio. In 1988, Winfrey purchased it as well as completely renovated it into a state-of-the-art, Hollywood-quality celluloid production as well as post-production facility.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Trailblazing Black Media Professional</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div>The Oprah Winfrey present began amongst a record-breaking launch inward to a greater extent than than 130 markets inward September 1986. She was the showtime Black adult woman to host a nationally syndicated speak present inward the United States. It is currently seen inward to a greater extent than than 99% of the soil as well as inward to a greater extent than than 100 unusual markets yesteryear millions of viewers. The studio receives several thou letters weekly from fans or as well as then the globe. <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEFHhmrSBAe2qahdeqSA9mYpLM1PsIfSk_fLmONNBORdYTVe8h4iILNqzmT4nSRn2E79cs0xLxqUvSAej-m5ajAHRpb9aiK7uYV-RYQK7C_gJq5Q6cS41DzduK8H45B0Yw2tjAX6TnM0/s1600-h/O_Magazine_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEFHhmrSBAe2qahdeqSA9mYpLM1PsIfSk_fLmONNBORdYTVe8h4iILNqzmT4nSRn2E79cs0xLxqUvSAej-m5ajAHRpb9aiK7uYV-RYQK7C_gJq5Q6cS41DzduK8H45B0Yw2tjAX6TnM0/s320/O_Magazine_cover.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: O, The Oprah Magazine</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div>In add-on to producing a monthly impress magazine, "O, The Oprah Magazine," Oprah has committed herself to bringing high lineament production to both the big as well as niggling screen. Harpo Studios produces "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as well as has produced film productions. This includes the ABC Theater Presentation of "There Are No Children Here" (1993), and the mini-series "The Women of Brewster Place" (1989), based on the mass yesteryear author Gloria Naylor. In 2005, the idiot box celluloid movie "There Eyes Were Watching God," based on the mass of the same bring upward yesteryear American anthropologist, writer, as well as folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, was every bit good produced yesteryear Harpo Studios.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoL-4uM6MiNFmCcK3sgtI44mEJwYcHMwAC9Vi1ejEz8VdtV3XhP7f_bwLLxI5C6hiRR395cBbIOKbGdMGkT95Gs2c2NoGAKPdngGXy3bevxGody9Fm5LcXuGfBoByPbbk1NlICYColXQ/s1600-h/Oprah_Winfrey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoL-4uM6MiNFmCcK3sgtI44mEJwYcHMwAC9Vi1ejEz8VdtV3XhP7f_bwLLxI5C6hiRR395cBbIOKbGdMGkT95Gs2c2NoGAKPdngGXy3bevxGody9Fm5LcXuGfBoByPbbk1NlICYColXQ/s320/Oprah_Winfrey.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: Oprah Gaile Winfrey (born Jan 29, 1954) at her </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>50th birthday political party at </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles (2004)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Championing Education Among Black South Africans</b><br /> <br /> In Jan 2007, Winfrey investment of fourth dimension and $40 million resulted inward the opening of the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=nelson-rolihlahla-mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> praised Winfrey for overcoming her challenging atmospheric condition as well as growing to endure of service to others.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAKQKClAqlWwc1JnmrFz9HNSCRQ0DvPM4kJqbabwCIFILlcVMTpwSvHWXWk8ZfimKZyJpxDHIhsMR_bZC5G5WZ6_TY4K2eECAhS_nsdWSULUvEtLnhDkU-20yqIkoMbnrD5T4AyAq6jM/s320/oprah+academy.png" /></div></div>

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Black Suriname: African Maroon Societies Inwards S America

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAy3UMB4oWfgzBQddTCLRDOZyOImMdQSF78D4XAXYyFfpbtWCSJqXc9NICEvbbq7O-3Z_MwtY6_d7p5wnhfGbkKvz05aZgLt60We56K6zUVhwu_KRsVWz1eOeSQXq8BtE26HVGKCf2cdo/s1600-h/JamaicanMaroons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAy3UMB4oWfgzBQddTCLRDOZyOImMdQSF78D4XAXYyFfpbtWCSJqXc9NICEvbbq7O-3Z_MwtY6_d7p5wnhfGbkKvz05aZgLt60We56K6zUVhwu_KRsVWz1eOeSQXq8BtE26HVGKCf2cdo/s1600/JamaicanMaroons.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Maroon communities inward the so-called New World were gratis Africans, to a greater extent than oft than non from </b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Western Africa, </b></span><b style="font-size: small;">who managed to escape European enslavement. This painting depicts </b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Jamaican Maroons waiting to ambush </b></span><b style="font-size: small;">an approaching British military settlement</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Image: cir. 1795, painting past times J. Bourgoin, courtesy </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities)</span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> African Maroon or Black Maroon societies are historically known to accept existed throughout the Americas: from the Carolina islands of the U.S. to the Florida peninsula of the United States, to the mountains of Jamaica into the Suriname (fka Dutch Guiana) jungles. Maroon communities equally good existed in <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=zumbi-dos-palmares">Brazil</a> too <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=zumbi-dos-palmares">Mexico</a>. The Maroons were enslaved Africans captured past times European slavers for forced plantation operate inward the New World.<br /> <br /> Through revolt, the enslaved African became fugitive slaves too banded into refugee African communities throughout the Americas too Caribbean, developing split upward from European settlers. Among the oldest known Maroons were from the portion straightaway called Suriname inward northeastern South America. African Maroon societies developed inward Suriname equally early on equally the 17th Century.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxQljx8-ZNQUSFjd3yIHULaaOnTEOrt1ERaMlZFqx-aZW9jeBcVgFZ_23D5F_ZdTVr88u_Bs8QrAN0BKkS-YSp3pmcxjgfWMfBO5htddY1eyvqJy-uPrQAsogWMjxJ_QsUmeroQEfvZg/s1600/Photo+of+Ndyuka+tribesmen+of+Suriname.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxQljx8-ZNQUSFjd3yIHULaaOnTEOrt1ERaMlZFqx-aZW9jeBcVgFZ_23D5F_ZdTVr88u_Bs8QrAN0BKkS-YSp3pmcxjgfWMfBO5htddY1eyvqJy-uPrQAsogWMjxJ_QsUmeroQEfvZg/s1600/Photo+of+Ndyuka+tribesmen+of+Suriname.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of Ndyuka tribes men of Suriname</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <b>Africans of Suriname: Djuka too Saramaka</b><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The historical documentary below was shot inward what was too hence known equally Dutch Guiana by James A. Fitzpatricks for <i>TravelTalks: Voice of the Globe</i>. It provides a snapshot of the life of a grouping of kidnapped too purchased West Africans who chose to flee Dutch plantation slavery inward South America. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1976 report past times Richard Price states that at that spot were half-dozen African Maroon groups inward Suriname, dividing them into 2 top dog groups on the reason of cultural too linguistic differences, equally good equally location: (1) the Eastern Tribes, consisting of the Ndyuka (Aucaner, Awka), the Aluku (Aluku nenge, Boni), too the Paramaka (Paramacca); too (2) the Central Tribes, consisting of the Saramaka (Saramacca), the Matawai, too the Kwinti (cf. the tribal distribution map inward Price 1976: 5). The Djuka too Saramaka are the largest African identify unit of measurement groups. The Aluku, Matawai, too Paramaka are much smaller inward number. The smallest tribe is the Kwinti, alongside fewer than 500 people.</div> <br /> <div align="center"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B3AfV__zcjo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B3AfV__zcjo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Among the early on anthropological plain studies of New World African tribes were amid the Djuka. In 1961, Dutch historians published substantial ethnographic resources. Additionally, full general ethnographic interrogation amid the Saramaka identify unit of measurement grouping was conducted past times Richard too Sally Price inward 1966-68, too briefly inward 1974-75.<br /> <i><br /> </i></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkLdEjW5c3TYoEJmoqcrd9iBU4GiN5mPD7Gr9eH7j5qvFt5NdtqKG-ngq3r6oq7ntsCetb3Na0IB_Pwev4gLcNKpui-_0zbfWXkFx36QXIjj4HdiC2yrqZpxcibgqkjLYyfmIt1ksWzc/s1600-h/surinam.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkLdEjW5c3TYoEJmoqcrd9iBU4GiN5mPD7Gr9eH7j5qvFt5NdtqKG-ngq3r6oq7ntsCetb3Na0IB_Pwev4gLcNKpui-_0zbfWXkFx36QXIjj4HdiC2yrqZpxcibgqkjLYyfmIt1ksWzc/s320/surinam.bmp" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Map of Suriname inward South America</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> For the most part, the Djuka alive along the interior rivers <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=zumbi-dos-palmares" target="_blank">Suriname</a>. After a one-half century of guerrilla warfare against colonial too European troops, Maroons of Suriname signed treaties alongside the Dutch colonial regime inward the 1760s, enabling them to alive independently. Some commentators nation that the policy of autonomy has changed inward the past times few decades. The Djuka population increased markedly during the eighteenth too nineteenth centuries. Growing numbers are straightaway living inward too roughly Paramaribo, the capitol of Suriname, too they equally good look to last expanding eastward into following French Guiana. See equally good Journey Man Pictures' YouTube video documentary/commentary, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeeSi2mu9vc&NR=1&feature=fvwp%20">Defending the Secret Slave State - Suriname</a>.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8ygT-OF204&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D8ygT-OF204&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><i>For farther reading nearly African Maroon cultures inward the Americas: </i></b></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>More from BHH Blog: <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=zumbi-dos-palmares" target="_blank">Africans inward Brazil: Zumbi dos Palmares</a>  Zumbi Leads the Quilombo Resistance</b></span></span></span> </li> <li><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Herskovits, Melville Jean, too Herskovits, Frances S., “Rebel destiny: amid the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1934. 366 p. illus., maps.</span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hurault, Jean, “Etude demographique comparee des Indiens Oayana et des noirs refugies Boni du Haut-Maroni” (Guyane Francaise) [Comparative demographic report of the Oyana Indians too the Boni refugee Blacks of the Upper Maroni (French Guiana). Population, fourteen (1959): p. 509-534.</span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kobben, Andre J. F, “Participation too quantification; plain operate amid the Djuka (Bush Negroes of Surinam).” In D. G. Jongmans too P.C. W. Gutkind, eds. Anthropologists inward the Field. Assen, Van Gorcum, 1967.</span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kobben, Andre J. F. Review of Jean Hurault 1961, “Les Noirs Refugies Boni de la Guyane Francaise. Caribbean Area Studies,” (1965): p. 63-65.</span></i></li> <li><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Price, Richard, “The Guiana Maroons: a historical too bibliographical introduction.” Baltimore too London, the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.</span></i></li> </ul> </div>

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Alexander Crummell: Founder Of The American Negro Academy

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5mLxynHMp6Bzs6PGWV-bWmufuruwZjPLnIsiRORzBJMQ9z9ixjANJwu4W53wTOBkilHMoNLvffQFmI7emnWQuwziqbp0bTc_leK76A-MtH6DDv8lAOFRf8HpW-dfITnnb1mTg0GSM9w/s1600-h/crummell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5mLxynHMp6Bzs6PGWV-bWmufuruwZjPLnIsiRORzBJMQ9z9ixjANJwu4W53wTOBkilHMoNLvffQFmI7emnWQuwziqbp0bTc_leK76A-MtH6DDv8lAOFRf8HpW-dfITnnb1mTg0GSM9w/s200/crummell.jpg" width="441" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Alexander Crummell (b. March 3, 1819 - 1898)</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Alexander Crummell, A.B., D.D., LL.D was born March 3, 1819 inwards New York City. He was friend as well as mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois as well as an outspoken social commentator as well as clergyman in nineteenth century America. He founded the American Negro Academy as well as became a  critic of his contemporary Booker T. Washington. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "His father, Boston Crummell, was the boy of a West African main inwards Timanee. On his maternal side, Crummell’s ancestors had been gratis residents inwards New York for generations," according to the <a href="http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/scguides/crummell/crummellintro.pdf">Alexander Crummell Collection</a>, published past times Scholarly Resources, Inc. His granddaddy is said to bring been a chief inside the Vey tribe of West Africa.</div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "<i>And, lastly, our boys as well as girls almost universally grow upwards without trades, looking forward, if they create facial expression forward, many of them, to beingness servants as well as waiters; as well as many more, I am afraid, expecting to perish a living past times adventure as well as hap-hazard.</i></div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Doubtless some of you lot volition nation that the colored people are non the alone people at error inwards these respects; that the American people, inwards general, are running wild most the higher civilization -- are neglecting trades as well as merchanism, as well as are leaving the to a greater extent than practical as well as laborious duties of life to foreigners."</i></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Excerpt from <i>Civilization & Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South</i>, edited past times J. R. Oldfield, p. 136, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville as well as London), from The Publications of the Southern Texts Society Collection (First Edition 1995). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">   </div>   <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtGYR32ugZg9U6TDUMrzYlwJ8NOJgXm9mpjbJUMi0O2XHYsjs8tkwyAhGIQbuoDAZxfR_yFZxmrNLHyxY8kqZbr9isvsmjehBiUfllubhrRMrSXZtcBWR3O8m5huLjufmNjKQxjjVcIM/s1600-h/american_negro_academy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtGYR32ugZg9U6TDUMrzYlwJ8NOJgXm9mpjbJUMi0O2XHYsjs8tkwyAhGIQbuoDAZxfR_yFZxmrNLHyxY8kqZbr9isvsmjehBiUfllubhrRMrSXZtcBWR3O8m5huLjufmNjKQxjjVcIM/s320/american_negro_academy.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: American Negro Academy Members includes a seated W.E.B. DuBois.</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Crummell's American Negro Academy was an association of Africans from some the world. It was among the early on societies of global Africans that would associate for progress of African people. The academy would advocate the “Talented Tenth” concept afterward articulated inwards Earth writings of W.E.B. DuBois, i of the academy's founding members. Crummell's members inwards Republic of Liberia as well as Sierra Leone would pave the agency for W.E.B. DuBois edifice associations betwixt Blacks inwards America as well as Blacks inwards Africa.<br /> <br /> Further reference: "Encyclopedia of Missions," past times Harry New-comb; as well as inwards a sketch called "Africa inwards Brief," past times the Rev. J. J. Coles, missionary to the Vey tribes inwards Africa.</div> </div>

Alexander Crummell: Founder Of The American Negro Academy

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