Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

<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/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s1600-h/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s400/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" width="325" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(b. July 16, 1862 – d. March 25, 1931)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Ida B. Wells was born inward Holly Springs, Mississippi on born July 16, 1862 together with would cash inward one's chips a fearless anti-lynching crusader together with renowned African American journalist inward the Americas.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS IN MEMPHIS</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells attended Rust College together with Fisk University earlier coming to learn inward the Memphis world schoolhouse system. While inward Memphis, Wells wrote for the Free Speech weekly newspaper. She was besides an avid diarist inward her early on years together with Miriam DeCosta-Willis edited some of her diary writings every bit The Memphis Diaries of Ida B. Wells (Beacon Press, 1995). In 1891, Wells was banned from educational activity amongst the Memphis world schools because her articles spoke out against racial injustices together with to a greater extent than peculiarly the lynching epidemic.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells became editor of the Free Speech paper inward Memphis together with began her anti-lynching activism, specifically challenging the notion that Black men were beingness lynched because they raped white women. Reacting against an unwrap she wrote nearly the activities of a lynch mob, the Memphis printing offices of the Free Speech were torched together with Ida was threatened amongst lynching. Wells fled Memphis for New York together with worked on the staff of the New York Age paper edited yesteryear T. Thomas Fortune. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS BARNETT IN CHICAGO</b></div> <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/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s1600-h/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s400/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett's dwelling inward Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois; <br /> Address: 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.; Year Built: 1889</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1895, Wells married attorney together with Chicago paper possessor Ferdinard Barnett. Her political together with social activism continued inward Chicago. At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, she together with Frederick Douglass campaigned for the institution of a pavilion to honour the accomplishments of Black Americans. She wrote together with distributed a pamphlet entitled "Why the Colored American is Not inward the World's Columbia Exposition" at the pes of the Statute of Columbia at the Corner of Cornell together with Hayes Drives inward Chicago. That same twelvemonth Wells began writing for the Conservator, Chicago's kickoff African American newspaper. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells is noted every bit i of the 25 outstanding women inward Chicago's history. One of Chicago's housing projects was named inward her honor. Ida B. Wells Barnett's old dwelling inward Chicago is located at 3624 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive together with yet stands inward this famed Bronzeville community. Her Chicago dwelling was designated a National Historic Landmark inward 1974.</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/SCsQz0He5Mg&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/SCsQz0He5Mg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> </div>

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett (b. July 16, 1862 – d. March 25, 1931) Ida B. Wells was born inward Holly Springs, Mississippi on born July 16, 1862 together with would cash inward one's chips a fe…

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Dr. Carter G. Woodson: The Manlike Individual Raise Of Dark History

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <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/AVvXsEjhHIMFHSNRxcfoO3tlj5bk2keLuQbAXMnmnytzq1_rPJqQKRnjiZpGvkEN5-uKLQelm37PXVHZx2_rQDHLFggm6nOn7HxrytXl06SoG1J5QA5mY8uF5gNK__APwXFdlBibQLfW8SFdq5I/s1600-h/Carter_Woodson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHIMFHSNRxcfoO3tlj5bk2keLuQbAXMnmnytzq1_rPJqQKRnjiZpGvkEN5-uKLQelm37PXVHZx2_rQDHLFggm6nOn7HxrytXl06SoG1J5QA5mY8uF5gNK__APwXFdlBibQLfW8SFdq5I/s200/Carter_Woodson.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Carter G. Woodson (b. 12/19/1875 - d. 4/3/1950)</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> doc Carter G. Woodson was i of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life too History, which promoted what was unremarkably known every bit Negro history (now commonly known every bit Black history) through school, church, too fraternal grouping activities. After diligent written report and writing on Black history, inwards 1926 Woodson inaugurated Negro History Week inwards Chicago at the Wabash YMCA. Negro History Week led to the celebration of Black History Month inwards the United States. In 1976, the calendar month long observation was recognition past times too then U.S. President Gerald Ford. Woodson became known alongside his people every bit the Father of Black History. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkBEjJH1j5U" width="420"></iframe> <br />  </div> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck1oHm23t31PwDvb4Z-H4QnWE0lyByiCgC-JYSJhW-swwdWwu1ua-0U7OVIQtQS_OcIuEfUvUpNPYt3QtD0qIn9tRG_KDjquTWt_ZmOaBUzDgod8uBySThhIIY3WKwsywvDDO40firn0/s1600-h/History_of_the_Negro_Church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck1oHm23t31PwDvb4Z-H4QnWE0lyByiCgC-JYSJhW-swwdWwu1ua-0U7OVIQtQS_OcIuEfUvUpNPYt3QtD0qIn9tRG_KDjquTWt_ZmOaBUzDgod8uBySThhIIY3WKwsywvDDO40firn0/s320/History_of_the_Negro_Church.jpg" width="129" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The History of the Negro Church, past times </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Carter G. Woodson (Second Edition, 1921)</span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, named later the dandy historian, holds i of the nation's largest collections of Black history too literature material. More than 70,000 books (many rare), 500 periodical titles, 5,000 reels of microfilm research, master manuscripts, too newspapers make upward a treasure breast of data called the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History too Literature. The Harsh Collection includes papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Freeman's Bureau papers, too a broad alternative of fine art industrial plant on paper, such every bit posters too other literary artifacts such every bit menstruum flyers. <br /> <br /> The collection was started past times Chicago librarian Vivian G. Harsh, an avid collector of historical works. She was the first African American librarian inwards the Chicago Public Library system. Her collection became a pregnant resources for the dynamic Black thinkers inwards Chicago inwards the 1930s too 1940s, such as Arna Bontemps, Richard Wright, too Langston Hughes, alongside others. </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/AVvXsEgjLp9_igrPps5P6PGio_Olj6j-7PA9dB0ByyjzvTcDyy5AyBNN6UzcHeLK6xhgTlothGAOCtGplMZ7VSnXxGvm3muTlQZ-ryfA9pgP-QRDbVHLSpYK51uIyutQo-EvZAT74AfLYVvWXHo/s1600-h/vivian+harsh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLp9_igrPps5P6PGio_Olj6j-7PA9dB0ByyjzvTcDyy5AyBNN6UzcHeLK6xhgTlothGAOCtGplMZ7VSnXxGvm3muTlQZ-ryfA9pgP-QRDbVHLSpYK51uIyutQo-EvZAT74AfLYVvWXHo/s320/vivian+harsh.jpg" /></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;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Librarian Vivian G. Harsh </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. May 27, 1890 - Aug. 17, 1960)</span></b></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Woodson Library is located at 9525 S. Halsted Street too is a dandy source for researching African American history. If you lot catch the <a href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicart.html" target="_blank">Woodson Library</a>, accept time out to relish the large bronze sculpture entitled "Jacob's Ladder", created past times the renown creative mortal Richard Hunt, hosted  at the library's central atrium. </div> </div>

Dr. Carter G. Woodson: The Manlike Individual Raise Of Dark History

  Dr. Carter G. Woodson (b. 12/19/1875 - d. 4/3/1950)   doc Carter G. Woodson was i of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life too History, which promoted what was unremarka…

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

<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/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s1600-h/Robert_s_abbott.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/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s200/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" width="264" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><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: Robert Sengstacke Abbott </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into slavery inward the US, but died when his boy was however a baby. In 1869, Robert's mother, Flora Abbott, married John Sengstacke from a wealthy High German merchant immigrant family. Robert retained his belatedly father's get upwards in addition to took his pace father's get upwards every bit his middle name.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> From 1892 to 1896, Robert studied the printing merchandise at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). By 1898, Robert earned a constabulary grade from Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He skillful constabulary inward Gary, Indiana, Topeka, Kansas, in addition to Chicago, Illinois. Ultimately, he decided that he could amend battle the arrangement of white supremacy racial injustice through the majority media instead of the courtroom. Robert pose downwards his constabulary books in addition to picked upwards his printing press. He would study the challenges in addition to successes of African Americans, tidings that was of import to their lives.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>THE CHICAGO DEFENDER NEWSPAPER</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> With reportedly every bit niggling every bit 25 cents capital, Robert began the most widely-circulated Black paper inward the United States. The Chicago Defender paper became the medium to vocalism the concerns of African Americans inward Chicago. The paper made many outstanding contributions to journalism in addition to ultimately to Black history. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <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/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s400/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Chicago Defender headline.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Established inward Nov 29, 1905, the Chicago Defender would operate the longest running African American paper publication inward Chicago. The telephone substitution of data from North to South -- through both the Chicago Defender in addition to correspondence betwixt relatives -- accelerated the Great Migration of African Americans to Chicago, resulting inward an growth of 150% inward the population of Black Chicago betwixt 1910-1920.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <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/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s1600/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s320/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">City officials inward Arkansas town seek ban on Chicago Defender newspaper.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The Great Migration of African Americans from U.S. southern states to Chicago was inward utilisation fueled yesteryear the Chicago Defender's vocalism against injustice in addition to grand accounts of northern living at the attack of the U.S. industrial revolution. Originally housed inward a converted synagogue from 1920 to 1960, the Chicago Defender quickly developed into both the country's premier root for tidings of the northern migration of African Americans.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <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/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s1600/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s400/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicago Defender typesetters reach community tidings for majority distribution.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Black Pullman Porters, who were prosperous in addition to good respected inward the African American communities, became the Defender's national "delivery  men," distributing the newspapers to many southern towns. The paper became an of import communication tool betwixt Black Chicagoans in addition to their relatives inward the southern states. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> "My friends made fun of me," Robert is reported to convey said most the tremendous opposition to his establishing the Chicago Defender. "They idea it was foolish of me to anticipate success inward a plain inward which then many men earlier me had failed...but I went on fighting the opposition of my adversaries in addition to the indifferences of my friends. I emerged victorious but battle-scarred."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s1600-h/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s320/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The historic dwelling trouble solid of Robert S. Abbott</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(4742 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1929, Robert established the Bud Billiken Club and with David Kellum established Chicago's Bud <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=black-chicago-commemorates-85th-annual" target="_blank">Billiken Parade in addition to Picnic</a>. He resided inward Chicago until his decease from Bright's Disease inward 1940. His home, established every bit a National Historical Landmark inward 1976, was located at 4742 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago. He left the Chicago Defender paper to his nephew John Henry Sengstacke. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div> <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/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s400/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" width="350" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After to a greater extent than than 100 years of Black publishing history, Chicago Defender's 2007 number headlines local politics.</span></span><br /> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott (b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940) Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into sl…

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The Harold Washington Library: A Library Inwards Observe Of Chicago's Starting Fourth Dimension Dark Mayor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv8vEg7hIceCSI0x5Zrd7sQtdnp5IPdZF573z6s-32laLxQYnxbU2eZiNgUB07xtsfd9fKJVIO2_tplyhJPEv1Ip4p0Dk4L_xHiuDflZ6I8pZPiZl0tulkg3-lQ7CxfGThYCiqGke5IQ/s1600-h/Harold_Washington_at_the_commissioning_of_USS_Chicago_%2528SSN-721%2529_cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv8vEg7hIceCSI0x5Zrd7sQtdnp5IPdZF573z6s-32laLxQYnxbU2eZiNgUB07xtsfd9fKJVIO2_tplyhJPEv1Ip4p0Dk4L_xHiuDflZ6I8pZPiZl0tulkg3-lQ7CxfGThYCiqGke5IQ/s200/Harold_Washington_at_the_commissioning_of_USS_Chicago_%2528SSN-721%2529_cropped.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Chicago Mayor Harold Lee Washington </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. Apr 15, 1922 – d. Nov. 25, 1987)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Born inward Chicago on Apr 15, 1922, Harold Lee Washington would graduate from Roosevelt University in addition to afterward Northwestern University Law School, both inward Chicago. His political career included serving equally a Illinois State Representative in addition to a fellow member of the U.S. House of Representative. Washington served the City of Chicago from 1983 until his larn out inward 1987. He was among the earliest of Chicago's political advocates for the revitalization of the historic Bronzeville community on the South Side of Chicago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER IN CHICAGO</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 10-story Harold Washington Library Center is the largest populace library inward the U.S. of A. of America inward collection volume. It opened Oct 1991 in addition to was named inward laurels of the belatedly mayor Harold Washington, the city's showtime Black mayor. </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H8c3opVsXfS7X0BtDjHbqwXLGfPbiXAYVu9rSywHS20I-cxPV42j7JzFslBJqdW6l-xIeyIEmmg9XETbBHE8VDbYkmZM5XeMfZke-UakNLkhNNJMLM70VgGhPxd4-0xrczque7XPhTA/s1600-h/Harold+Washington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H8c3opVsXfS7X0BtDjHbqwXLGfPbiXAYVu9rSywHS20I-cxPV42j7JzFslBJqdW6l-xIeyIEmmg9XETbBHE8VDbYkmZM5XeMfZke-UakNLkhNNJMLM70VgGhPxd4-0xrczque7XPhTA/s320/Harold+Washington.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">The Harold Washington Library Center provides amount library services, exhibitions in addition to lectures, a fully equipped video theatre in addition to tv studio, a wintertime garden in addition to java shop. It hosts the Harold Washington Archives in addition to Collections, a "Chicago Blues" archive, in addition to an fine art collection alongside representation dozens of Black artists.</div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ndezp31p-zf2xaUaSQx3VRtC6dxVAoyK06vlvC0ugpVZvFB8jJLSs3n617vp7jx6ppPS6B-xLouo-bCBIYFdPzPnFPPe9nZ0lCltI2sxGohFEi3cI-_OXXo2qPi1EUMHS31RnOQ1hSI/s1600-h/harold+washington+Events_in_the_Life_of_Harold_Washington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ndezp31p-zf2xaUaSQx3VRtC6dxVAoyK06vlvC0ugpVZvFB8jJLSs3n617vp7jx6ppPS6B-xLouo-bCBIYFdPzPnFPPe9nZ0lCltI2sxGohFEi3cI-_OXXo2qPi1EUMHS31RnOQ1hSI/s320/harold+washington+Events_in_the_Life_of_Harold_Washington.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: "Events inward the Life of Harold Washington," </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>mosaic mural past times Jacob Lawrence (Chicago, 1991)</b></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">In the Harold Washington Archives in addition to Collection at that spot is a permanent exhibition that documents Washington's political career. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mural-size mosaic past times the late Black creative someone Jacob Lawrence titled "Events inward the Life of Harold Washington" is located on the primal lobby's northward wall. </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OejKASOf6ZaVQ1R5QdYu_3FIrBnAKnZ3TsuVT48vTRm8kI-toWi0hgOJxeZL3-geXKk1bfLY8chYzpKhOIdBqT0pers8lB03PA2F0hKj2kgWsQw_mfjwTuFmOYWefbX1xlkS4ky2TbA/s1600-h/Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OejKASOf6ZaVQ1R5QdYu_3FIrBnAKnZ3TsuVT48vTRm8kI-toWi0hgOJxeZL3-geXKk1bfLY8chYzpKhOIdBqT0pers8lB03PA2F0hKj2kgWsQw_mfjwTuFmOYWefbX1xlkS4ky2TbA/s320/Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: ninth Floor of The Harold Washington Library</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/AVvXsEidoECS5NqihS81fFXMUwdsbL03ZWL1TLWkptmCzbksBPZjHosy0LEUJUM30ybxM15qahWTY3De_rKD99ZitTvIQpLM-zOjfYt6Gw9XUstkdC1RJooDbR41tBNNL4hXon1ZKFQikEISigg/s1600-h/Harold+Washington+4th_Level_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidoECS5NqihS81fFXMUwdsbL03ZWL1TLWkptmCzbksBPZjHosy0LEUJUM30ybxM15qahWTY3De_rKD99ZitTvIQpLM-zOjfYt6Gw9XUstkdC1RJooDbR41tBNNL4hXon1ZKFQikEISigg/s320/Harold+Washington+4th_Level_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Image: quaternary Floor of The Harold Washington Library</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/AVvXsEgZAvYZVrZNzW-M4FtkTKnfi9kNVirPgPe5vIMTDmEAgn5Q6JOFFdoWS5BOqiNYJ6BVJZqzEubCBLK9E5kdbKSbGqsz9ASv9yumX2rm_WQYcLK9YvqBk8oXMJXfy6eHZaJqsAHUTyNdGzw/s1600-h/Harold+Washington+Lobby_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZAvYZVrZNzW-M4FtkTKnfi9kNVirPgPe5vIMTDmEAgn5Q6JOFFdoWS5BOqiNYJ6BVJZqzEubCBLK9E5kdbKSbGqsz9ASv9yumX2rm_WQYcLK9YvqBk8oXMJXfy6eHZaJqsAHUTyNdGzw/s320/Harold+Washington+Lobby_Harold_Washington_Library.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Photo: Lobby of The Harold Washington Library</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Across from the Jacob Lawrence work is "DuSable's Journey," a "cakewalk cosmogram" that traces the H2O routes taken past times Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable from his native Republic of Haiti to to his novel habitation inward what is similar a shot known equally Chicago. The map is encircled past times a telephone of excerpts taken from Harold Washington's showtime first address. The Harold Washington Library Center is located at 400 S. 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The Harold Washington Library: A Library Inwards Observe Of Chicago's Starting Fourth Dimension Dark Mayor

Photo: Chicago Mayor Harold Lee Washington (b. Apr 15, 1922 – d. Nov. 25, 1987) Born inward Chicago on Apr 15, 1922, Harold Lee Washington would graduate from Roosevelt University in addition to after…

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Ramón Mongo Santamaria

<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/AVvXsEjojhfHTjMUXqSHUYgQTYAfkYeaH-ZoFo514oFoDjPtxmqHg7L24dRxYMzSyB7GaceF2vNYsNi4lMEcdlYEMPuKUiu7tfeeRrE4xqxCkMkgwhXoN7G4ynsdmVXSegvSycZn7U6GAOtvIRU/s1600/mongo+santamaria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojhfHTjMUXqSHUYgQTYAfkYeaH-ZoFo514oFoDjPtxmqHg7L24dRxYMzSyB7GaceF2vNYsNi4lMEcdlYEMPuKUiu7tfeeRrE4xqxCkMkgwhXoN7G4ynsdmVXSegvSycZn7U6GAOtvIRU/s200/mongo+santamaria.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaria</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría was born Apr 7, 1917 inward Havana, Cuba. Best known every bit Mongo Santamaria, the Havana-born instrumentalist earned a reputation as 1 of the great Afro-Cuban Latin jazz drummers. He spread the collaborative spirit of the Jazz Era inward 1950 when he moved to New York in addition to began playing amongst Tinto Puente, Cal Tjader, in addition to others. The phase elevate of Japanese histrion Yūsuke Santamaria was inspired past times Mongo Santamaria.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">His "Afro Blue" became a jazz measure in addition to was popularized every bit a remake past times John Coltrane. Mongo's Jazz Funk remake of Herbie Hancock's 1963 "Watermelon Man" led to his induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame inward 1988. He died Feb 1, 2003.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div align="center"><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/YbE7jf_Hp5w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/YbE7jf_Hp5w&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></div></div>

Ramón Mongo Santamaria

Ramón "Mongo" Santamaria Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría was born Apr 7, 1917 inward Havana, Cuba. Best known every bit Mongo Santamaria, the Havana-born instrumentalist earned a reputation as 1 of the great…

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Africans Inwards Brazil: Zumbi Dos Palmares

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></strong><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjra4_OjKgZz1PgU5wg5_v_y18hT-i0_6HNQfj3o2cHrvk7mCM6zu3LFDmoac9cAWcqFM8r6-nPCeu31KxBDVbi2QIdhBcFsmMexoD1Is-yiQTz6fT_M5TbHKfP8ubCWNqO0NwZLJ9T4pw/s1600/zumbi+dos+palmares.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjra4_OjKgZz1PgU5wg5_v_y18hT-i0_6HNQfj3o2cHrvk7mCM6zu3LFDmoac9cAWcqFM8r6-nPCeu31KxBDVbi2QIdhBcFsmMexoD1Is-yiQTz6fT_M5TbHKfP8ubCWNqO0NwZLJ9T4pw/s200/zumbi+dos+palmares.jpg" width="160" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>Zumbi dos Palmares</strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>(born: 1655 - died: 1694)</strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Zumbi dos Palmares was born costless inward the Palmares portion of Brazil inward the twelvemonth 1655, the terminal of the armed forces leaders of the Quilombo (Kimbundu word: "<a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-maroon-societies-in-americas">maroons</a>, or refugee slave), an onetime South American republic, which included the introduce twenty-four hours Brazilian coastal nation of Alagoas, Brazil. Today, Zumbi is known every bit i of the corking historic leaders of Brazil.<br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7RK-lz9pKv4OYVxDl87WYkwBDGrZc4NovKxumnNZTSJd3ZCRHmWKA9VQE_1DJrIrl53gAVeGV24LggWkRr-ny9qsM4UB6T1rIZ8LAAeh0nvv072GtHSLUDmWXSjNa1-R8eELW5DGFvHs/s1600/i%C3%B3+in+the+State+of+Alagoas.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7RK-lz9pKv4OYVxDl87WYkwBDGrZc4NovKxumnNZTSJd3ZCRHmWKA9VQE_1DJrIrl53gAVeGV24LggWkRr-ny9qsM4UB6T1rIZ8LAAeh0nvv072GtHSLUDmWXSjNa1-R8eELW5DGFvHs/s320/i%C3%B3+in+the+State+of+Alagoas.png" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Brazilian Coastal State of Alagoas</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At around half dozen years old, Zumbi was captured from the Palmares portion yesteryear the Portuguese in addition to given every bit a slave to a Portuguese priest, António Melo. Baptized Francisco, Zumbi was taught Latin, the Portuguese religious belief in addition to language, in addition to assigned to serve the Catholic mass. In 1670, at fifteen years old, Zumbi escaped and returned to his birthplace where he presently became known every bit a Capoërae / Capoiera master copy inward the roda (wheel or circle) of Palmares' practioners of this African martial art. By his early on twenties, he became a respected armed forces strategist.</div> <br /> <b>Quilombo dos Palmares Republic</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Quilombo dos Palmares was a self-sustaining commonwealth of maroons located inward "a portion mayhap the size of Portugal inward the hinterland of Bahia" (Braudel 1984). The Bahia - Alagoas portion of Brazil is where this costless African village was located. At its elevation inward the early on 1600s, Palmares had a population of over 30,000. By 1630, it was described yesteryear the commentators every bit "the Promised Land" for escaped African slaves. King Ganga Zumba of Palmares offered emancipation for slaves entering its territories.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1644, the Dutch invaded the northeastern portion but, as the Portuguese had failed before, the European  insurrections failed to penetrate Palmares. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN8xO4peB-7X7ISTxTxsNHd9BVG5b5hRREnHAB_XGMtHMsSTk-7yzbjNBFNmL5rE-nDKLLKA7wUjEBOpfKgnfJnuYsS7NJ_8FpWPJ4dJd36E3nj2jBTqtbXc2t8F3OWtvHkEW-MC8LRI/s1600/palmares.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN8xO4peB-7X7ISTxTxsNHd9BVG5b5hRREnHAB_XGMtHMsSTk-7yzbjNBFNmL5rE-nDKLLKA7wUjEBOpfKgnfJnuYsS7NJ_8FpWPJ4dJd36E3nj2jBTqtbXc2t8F3OWtvHkEW-MC8LRI/s320/palmares.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quilombos of Palmares</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1654, the Portuguese expelled the Dutch from the region, many of whom relocated to <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=african-maroon-societies-in-americas">Suriname</a>. The Palmares armed forces were proficient inward the Capoeira self defense, oftentimes described as the fine art of escape. They were forced to defend against repeated attacks yesteryear Portuguese colonizers seeking costless task for growing saccharide plantations. Many of the escaping Africans from the Portuguese colony originated from the Angolan portion inward south-central Africa, in addition to thence under Portuguese colonization.<br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8CN_WvQcBIu8gLUkuKhAyvuqwrDLyooBJJEDykpkzN_q82JczgBuWkPMP4tzESeI8legEYL400QTEiwGgVzB_XRSEInJNJRPNMDEfP1fHUrkDkUdLLuC0KiVwFt9ph6XF_mxsIy2RjyE/s1600/Roda+Jogar+Capo%C3%ABra+-+Danse+de+la+guerre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8CN_WvQcBIu8gLUkuKhAyvuqwrDLyooBJJEDykpkzN_q82JczgBuWkPMP4tzESeI8legEYL400QTEiwGgVzB_XRSEInJNJRPNMDEfP1fHUrkDkUdLLuC0KiVwFt9ph6XF_mxsIy2RjyE/s320/Roda+Jogar+Capo%C3%ABra+-+Danse+de+la+guerre.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>"Jogar Capoërae - Danse de la guerre (Playing Capoiera - Dance of war)" </strong></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>was painted yesteryear High German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas inward 1835.</strong></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5vWY-W4IC1ohbOvqXYOq-PDcpJo5HwWWc-BiFSFAQxnQLnquc1WlLU-LcFc8N1kDePhCIZjVsa4ZMwXmd90IFmO7WH_oDPTHA11EmZ_UID52v2jC5HPAfqyQr9RT3wrJ9xU3Vt_QoJA/s1600/capoeira.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5vWY-W4IC1ohbOvqXYOq-PDcpJo5HwWWc-BiFSFAQxnQLnquc1WlLU-LcFc8N1kDePhCIZjVsa4ZMwXmd90IFmO7WH_oDPTHA11EmZ_UID52v2jC5HPAfqyQr9RT3wrJ9xU3Vt_QoJA/s320/capoeira.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">A 21st Century epitome of Brazilian Capoeira</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1678, Pedro Almeida, the weary governor of Pernambuco approached the Palmares leader King Ganga Zumba for negotiations. Almeida agreed to concede all runaway slaves residing inward the Palmares regions if Palmares would submit to Portuguese rule. King Ganga Zumba favored the compromise but Zumbi did non because the Portuguese would non concur to costless all the human slaves inward the Portuguese colonial region.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before King Ganga Zumba's death, Zumbi commanded the leadership of the independent Quilombos dos Palmares, becoming the commander-in-chief of its resistence. Fifteen years later Zumbi assumed armed forces leadership of Palmares, Portuguese colonial armed forces commanders from the São Paulo region -- Domingos Jorge Velho in addition to Bernardo Vieira de Melo -- mounted a armed forces assault against Palmares. By 1680, Zumbi of Palmares reigned against the Portuguese. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgft6f4vuQrgWcDFcBZLPt4lY6ZlSHNK0Yd9jaimwHqJYvJFC8b6kubg4CbIhvyiuEDc9weyp8kOU8xUCNtN2Hlp_YmXiI5jXbmCq0o7ho7uWp5hc8tFj6e-rYhUw74HdrRTVBzDNfnaRc/s1600/Quilombo+de+San+Gon%C3%A7alo+1769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgft6f4vuQrgWcDFcBZLPt4lY6ZlSHNK0Yd9jaimwHqJYvJFC8b6kubg4CbIhvyiuEDc9weyp8kOU8xUCNtN2Hlp_YmXiI5jXbmCq0o7ho7uWp5hc8tFj6e-rYhUw74HdrRTVBzDNfnaRc/s320/Quilombo+de+San+Gon%C3%A7alo+1769.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quilombo de San Gonçalo 1769 (National Library of Brazil). </span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Quilombo settlements were designed inside a circle, every bit was </span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">the dance/martial-art of Capoiera. </span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Capoiera circle is called the Roda.</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>Zumbi Leads the Quilombo Resistance</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Zumbi eluded the Portuguese in addition to continued the Quilombo resistance. Commentators accept written that he was betrayed yesteryear a captured Quilombo who led the Portugese of São Paulo (<em>Paulistas</em>) to Zumbi's hideout. In whatsoever case, led yesteryear Domingos Jorge Velho in addition to Vieira de Mello, on Feb 6, 1694, later 67 years armed forces conflict alongside Palmares, the Portuguese eventually destroyed the Palmares compound <em>Cerca create Macaco</em> ("monkey enclosure"). While the Quilombo remained inward the Palmares region, Zumbi was captured in addition to killed on Nov 20, 1695. His caput is said to accept been shipped to Recife, Brazil where it was displayed inward the cardinal <em>praça</em> every bit proof that Zumbi was non immortal in addition to every bit a alarm to other African resistance fighters. </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Nov 20 has been celebrated inward Brazil every bit Black Awareness Day (or Black Conscious Day, portuegese: <em>Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra</em>) since the 1960s. The twenty-four hours has exceptional pregnant inward laurels of Zumbi -- a dark hero in addition to liberty fighter. Additionally, May xiii is the national vacation inward Brazil inward laurels of the Abolition of Slavery inward Brazil inward 1850.  <br /> <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/AVvXsEh3-jCuOz1R4RkQo9ZRVjkqzYGKG7TOwNkdIT1Op3ArVxJOy_HrqSxm16Pb50pOOxbAb36tzXQjil1N2DVyNSJMHyg2_bnzPAR2yoYtFCr3wWjxLNWmeA9whqD4fYoNlhwRl2T33OMvzpU/s1600/Zumbi+dos+Palmares+International+Airport+in+Macei%C3%B3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-jCuOz1R4RkQo9ZRVjkqzYGKG7TOwNkdIT1Op3ArVxJOy_HrqSxm16Pb50pOOxbAb36tzXQjil1N2DVyNSJMHyg2_bnzPAR2yoYtFCr3wWjxLNWmeA9whqD4fYoNlhwRl2T33OMvzpU/s320/Zumbi+dos+Palmares+International+Airport+in+Macei%C3%B3" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport inward Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport (IATA: MCZ, ICAO: SBMO) </strong></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>is an international drome serving Maceió inward Brazil. This modern drome </strong></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>connects Maceió alongside </strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>various Brazilian cities in addition to likewise operates international flights.</strong></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rTpVyz8JTyv5rLQS38lNaDu5zqor9sag2nVHUeA8uNSxUE41X0o9fBnQHZJVAm4yoHE0_37jEg9CgaKgndGr9HC2jFPnbDmmsrwHtKPCUxlgK4IR-DxrhrQyt-UVbItI0wYEP11PyDE/s1600/Maceio_Alagoas_Brasil.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rTpVyz8JTyv5rLQS38lNaDu5zqor9sag2nVHUeA8uNSxUE41X0o9fBnQHZJVAm4yoHE0_37jEg9CgaKgndGr9HC2jFPnbDmmsrwHtKPCUxlgK4IR-DxrhrQyt-UVbItI0wYEP11PyDE/s320/Maceio_Alagoas_Brasil.bmp" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Beaches of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Further research: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1984 cinema directed yesteryear Carlos Diegues tells the storey of Quilombo dos Palmares. Its star actors are Antonio Pomeu, Zezé Motta, Tony Tornado, in addition to Vera Fischer.</div> <br /></div>

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Queen Woman Bring Upwards Nana Yaa Asantewaa Of Westward Africa's Ashanti Empire

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGuRfHS3In4nhTZC0ri1nVmRzaGE8MjWh-J4CragZ2hrvnRt8aPbdNyS9ty6kfVhisoP30UVdoWdgsHh6U0J10dZNlbs5-5moaxm0VLiZlP8tHwASjipdgprV4NRYziW-ckpCakKaalh8/s1600/Yaa+Asentawa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGuRfHS3In4nhTZC0ri1nVmRzaGE8MjWh-J4CragZ2hrvnRt8aPbdNyS9ty6kfVhisoP30UVdoWdgsHh6U0J10dZNlbs5-5moaxm0VLiZlP8tHwASjipdgprV4NRYziW-ckpCakKaalh8/s200/Yaa+Asentawa.jpg" width="186" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><strong>Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa</strong></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <strong>of the Ejisu Clan of the Asante (b. 1863 - d. October 1923)</strong><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Yaa Asantewaa was named Queen Mother of the Ejisuhene (part of the Asante or Ashanti Confederacy) past times her exiled blood brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese. Prior to European colonization, the Ashanti people developed an influential West African empire. Asantewaa was the Gatekeeper of the "Golden Stool" (Sika 'dwa) during this powerful Ashanti Confederacy (Asanteman), an independent federation of Asanti tribal families that ruled from 1701 to 1896. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7XxkALryuQV_Etxj24t7CU3VMqEZJgqZsk2mEw4lAj6ThqBnO4XeUwdSssBG6f8M0v2C3XI6I6OvkbNFFh2nhix8GYfZXvdOQgOEeBe81gNLPXUO-j1HZbFOheMlTday_aYHsBcvs94/s1600/Flag+of+Ashanti.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7XxkALryuQV_Etxj24t7CU3VMqEZJgqZsk2mEw4lAj6ThqBnO4XeUwdSssBG6f8M0v2C3XI6I6OvkbNFFh2nhix8GYfZXvdOQgOEeBe81gNLPXUO-j1HZbFOheMlTday_aYHsBcvs94/s320/Flag+of+Ashanti.png" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Flag of The Republic of Ghana </span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">containing epitome of the Golden Stool</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The storey of Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa is a storey of the modern history of the land of Ghana, Africa. In 1896, Asantehene (<em>King</em>) Prempeh I of the Asanteman federation was captured as well as exiled to the Seychelles islands by the British who had come upward to telephone telephone the expanse the British "Gold Coast." Asantewaa's blood brother was said to live on alongside the men exiled with Prempeh I, deported because of his opposition to British dominion inwards West Africa.</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1900, British colonial governor Frederick Hodgson called a coming together inwards the urban essence of Kumasi of the Ashantehene local rulers. At the meeting, Hodgson stated that King Prempeh I would top on to endure an exile from his native reason as well as that the Ashanti people were to give upward to the British their historical, ancestral Golden Stool - a dynastic symbol of the Ashanti empire. In fact, ability was transferred to each Asantahene past times a ceremonial crowning that involved the sacred Golden Stool. The colonial governor demanded that it live on surrendered to permit Hodgson to sit down on the Sika 'dwa equally a symbol of British power.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeeZwUkSsBovUdlT3S_AN8_3rv1hJP9kyYSaSJ8bKpyhkF5-06tK6q85LFu2FLEwuhrMOXCCen3_TdgwAZ9iLWAdCFSHqmENfSBMSspoFS6mc7uX8Bp5cmqCchRVe_m-SsaUDIMdTziBw/s1600/golden-stool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeeZwUkSsBovUdlT3S_AN8_3rv1hJP9kyYSaSJ8bKpyhkF5-06tK6q85LFu2FLEwuhrMOXCCen3_TdgwAZ9iLWAdCFSHqmENfSBMSspoFS6mc7uX8Bp5cmqCchRVe_m-SsaUDIMdTziBw/s320/golden-stool.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Sika 'dwa or Golden Stool</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At this time, Yaa Asantewaa was the Gatekeeper of the Golden Stool. After this meetings, the Ashantehenes of the federation gathered to utter over the British development. Upon hearing to a greater extent than or less of the Ashantehenes entertain give upward to the British demands, it is reported that the Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa rose as well as said the following: </div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>"Now I receive got seen that to a greater extent than or less of you lot fearfulness to teach forwards to create create for our King.</em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>If it were inwards the brave days of Osei Tutu, Okomfo Anokye, as well as Opoku Ware, leaders would non sit down downwards to consider their King taken away without firing a shot.</em></div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>No white human being could receive got dared to speak to a leader of the Ashanti inwards the agency the Governor spoke to you lot this morning.</em></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Is it truthful that the bravery of the Ashanti is no more? I cannot believe it. It cannot be! </em></div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em>I must say this, if you lot the men of Ashanti volition non teach forward, as well as thus nosotros will. We the women will. I shall telephone telephone upon my swain women. We volition create create the white men. We volition create create till the concluding of us falls inwards the battlefields."</em></div> </blockquote> <blockquote> -- <strong>Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewa</strong> </blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfRzQx8n62wWMhA80-zKe9kc85eV5_A_-hUeEk74NfGgdFp8xOg-VQKSq8BHGIEj3bwN-Jhw9mpgpxI9gJpn3IXKjJdq2s528IImei6g5-cAdPqyrTn2yxJrL8oPnGPDm-LiYtkvapweM/s1600/AA+ASANTEWA--QUEEN+MOTHER+OF+THE+EJISU+CLAN+OF+THE+ASANTE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfRzQx8n62wWMhA80-zKe9kc85eV5_A_-hUeEk74NfGgdFp8xOg-VQKSq8BHGIEj3bwN-Jhw9mpgpxI9gJpn3IXKjJdq2s528IImei6g5-cAdPqyrTn2yxJrL8oPnGPDm-LiYtkvapweM/s320/AA+ASANTEWA--QUEEN+MOTHER+OF+THE+EJISU+CLAN+OF+THE+ASANTE.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa (picture of unknown date)</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Ashanti-British "War of the Golden Stool" was led past times Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa with an regular army of 5,000. While Yaa Asantewaa was captured past times the British as well as deported, her bravery stirred a kingdom-wide displace for the homecoming of Prempeh I as well as for independence. </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/AVvXsEgNSHX2ULdTANwgbYMU5ggWlkJSoIIaoIPae_2yNPUUC21rMdVULGtszd934bpov_lhdDXc_NZVsmCi5YoXPG-q3NmvAvmjCr20rTiaz_Ky-pD_Nou0mk19ZS4_gBqHHiFNgHRW3nRa4YU/s1600/West+Africa+Map+of+1625.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSHX2ULdTANwgbYMU5ggWlkJSoIIaoIPae_2yNPUUC21rMdVULGtszd934bpov_lhdDXc_NZVsmCi5YoXPG-q3NmvAvmjCr20rTiaz_Ky-pD_Nou0mk19ZS4_gBqHHiFNgHRW3nRa4YU/s320/West+Africa+Map+of+1625.png" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Early map of West Africa  (cir. 1625 map of pre-Asanti/Akan federated state)</span></strong></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/AVvXsEhBQaioZa71aqlbDPfMUzKiUB_geHSzFdbw0DJeUefjroMfXqAWCnhxkce0cGMQTyPsHOF9OtTND0Sw94k01jK6ibyff9xQMtGTUz4sESfsm2V3xQKs9Jkzz6w8irEJd3VFl_PNGtrftgY/s1600/Asante+Empire+during+the+19th+century.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQaioZa71aqlbDPfMUzKiUB_geHSzFdbw0DJeUefjroMfXqAWCnhxkce0cGMQTyPsHOF9OtTND0Sw94k01jK6ibyff9xQMtGTUz4sESfsm2V3xQKs9Jkzz6w8irEJd3VFl_PNGtrftgY/s320/Asante+Empire+during+the+19th+century.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ashanti Empire (Asante Empire) during the 19th Century</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Today, Ashanti is an administrative portion inwards cardinal Republic of Ghana where almost of the inhabitants are Ashanti people who speak Twi, an Akan linguistic communication group, like to Fante. In 1935 the Golden Stool was used inwards the ceremony to crown Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II (ruled 1935-1970). Independence from the British colonialist was secured inwards 1957. On August 3, 2000, a museum was dedicated to Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa at Kwaso inwards the Ejisu-Juaben District of Ghana.<br /> <br /></div> </div>

Queen Woman Bring Upwards Nana Yaa Asantewaa Of Westward Africa's Ashanti Empire

Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa of the Ejisu Clan of the Asante (b. 1863 - d. October 1923) Yaa Asantewaa was named Queen Mother of the Ejisuhene (part of the Asante or Ashanti Confederacy) p…

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Susan L. Taylor: Advocate For Mentoring

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><object height="240" width="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HHIsSjMbppg&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HHIsSjMbppg&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="360" height="240"></embed></object></div><div align="center"><strong>Video of Susan Taylor on mentoring as a tool to </strong><br /> <strong>combat Earth educational activity crisis</strong></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">Born Jan 23, 1946 inwards New York, Susan L. Taylor is similar a shot Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of <i>Essence</i> magazine as well as founder of National CARES Mentoring. In this video she discusses countering the "pipeline to prison" course of written report of failing schools through instituting local mentoring programs that tap into the wealth of back upward as well as know-how available from individuals inside a community. Each 1 accomplish one. This clip was developed Jan 14, 2010 equally business office of The Lottery Film (thelotterfilm.com), a celluloid past times Madeleine Sackler, released inwards U.S. theaters May 7, 2010.</div><br /> <strong>Local Mentoring Program Information:</strong><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPhLUpe9ksyXpq2pYQtPXQJ3yzXLOtJ69Q1TQQRLnRMs7O3NPBHbzcKmiclo_bs217VdJRwiiywwzqvQghnykhqAFFEDYXOwp-2tL0k8RU1tXfXABMfUFzQJRdoBfcad6w8Hy6Z7mFco/s1600/harlem-cares-mentoring-movement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPhLUpe9ksyXpq2pYQtPXQJ3yzXLOtJ69Q1TQQRLnRMs7O3NPBHbzcKmiclo_bs217VdJRwiiywwzqvQghnykhqAFFEDYXOwp-2tL0k8RU1tXfXABMfUFzQJRdoBfcad6w8Hy6Z7mFco/s200/harlem-cares-mentoring-movement.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Harlem CARES Mentoring Movement</strong></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/AVvXsEiJOtEH0EHH-D9Ot_Q3vuaYOzI6q1z9uWkcupSJd7-0sPeYKzfgVVA95-NQR4yWPu9oG2UhicC47gkBo42hXGyl3JoTBR6e5ZttxH_CQXEDHROg83ZT77QS-zkt6SGpsqddV4sSxa8QsIY/s1600/atlanta+cares+mentoring+program.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOtEH0EHH-D9Ot_Q3vuaYOzI6q1z9uWkcupSJd7-0sPeYKzfgVVA95-NQR4yWPu9oG2UhicC47gkBo42hXGyl3JoTBR6e5ZttxH_CQXEDHROg83ZT77QS-zkt6SGpsqddV4sSxa8QsIY/s320/atlanta+cares+mentoring+program.jpg" /></a><strong></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Atlanta CARES Mentoring Movement</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For data on starting a local schoolhouse mentoring plan through the National CARES Mentoring Movement, discovery to a greater extent than data on its website at caresmentoring.com.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=luxortrades-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1400280222&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><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=luxortrades-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=078797952X&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></div>

Susan L. Taylor: Advocate For Mentoring

Video of Susan Taylor on mentoring as a tool to combat Earth educational activity crisis Born Jan 23, 1946 inwards New York, Susan L. Taylor is similar a shot Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Essence maga…

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What Is Juneteenth?

<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/AVvXsEiR01wGrCy2ApkZV-9eJfrBq9eCJWuGNDgaEbt7GujjbKuSkjTqq2aDappJiIXMEZVtsOLWT8gU-aIPWvFQhDNYRUSkYqXQKQeZvjECahdhZXwyHvnEDnFf4ynaHzb4PuDiSRvG61u4Kyk/s1600/Juneteenth+Statute.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR01wGrCy2ApkZV-9eJfrBq9eCJWuGNDgaEbt7GujjbKuSkjTqq2aDappJiIXMEZVtsOLWT8gU-aIPWvFQhDNYRUSkYqXQKQeZvjECahdhZXwyHvnEDnFf4ynaHzb4PuDiSRvG61u4Kyk/s400/Juneteenth+Statute.jpg" width="265" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo of Juneteenth Statute, Galveston Island, </b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Texas, USA, commemorates </b><b>the</b> <b>reading of the </b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Emancipation Proclamation </b><b>at Ashton Villa, June 19, 1865</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Juneteenth is brusk for June 19th. It is celebrated equally business office of African American history, by as well as large inwards Texas as well as the South, to celebrate the terminate of slavery inwards the United States. It dates dorsum to 1865 when soldiers for the federal Union, led past times Major General Gordon Granger, made it to Ashton Villa close Gavleston, Texas alongside news that the Union won the state of war as well as human slavery was illegal. This was 2 as well as a one-half years afterwards the Emancipation Proclamation was signed past times the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on Jan 1, 1863. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation inwards Texas was non made a reality until 1865, alongside General Granger's arrival alongside his Union regiment as well as the give upwards of General Lee. This 2 as well as a one-half years delay inwards receiving the tidings of federal emancipation has generated many stories of how it was delivered to Texas. </div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipF51UW5qoMGmSP_4hSVnKyL84bKgT4kOupGFeof7rFlJ4s7Eu_YRDjubvfxb9yfGXv_Q9ZbGp0c7OWwE53znzR6eOrVdQshqxkhnF-tmO3-yZOxAPUZwLXE9fXLuIaoBztk3EWfCn-j0/s1600/1juneteenth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipF51UW5qoMGmSP_4hSVnKyL84bKgT4kOupGFeof7rFlJ4s7Eu_YRDjubvfxb9yfGXv_Q9ZbGp0c7OWwE53znzR6eOrVdQshqxkhnF-tmO3-yZOxAPUZwLXE9fXLuIaoBztk3EWfCn-j0/s320/1juneteenth.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Some tell that the Union troops waited for Texas slaveholders to reap the final cotton fiber harvests. Others tell that the messenger was murdered on his agency to deliver the tidings of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Some commentators report that President Lincoln only did non convey total authorization over the region. In either case, Africans inwards Texas were freed TWO AND H5N1 HALF YEARS afterwards the official historical appointment for independence of Africans inwards the United States.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Juneteenth Statute above is a nine human foot tall bronze statue that was erected inwards 2005 on the grounds of Ashton Villa inwards Texas to commemorate an 1979 Texas legislative proclamation that made June 19th a nation vacation to memorialize the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation at Ashton Villa on June 19, 1865.</div> <br /></div>

What Is Juneteenth?

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George Washington Carver: Scientist Too Inventor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZqmOIVDrox8rG56t8LANErGHmz_GQnOLj9qhFADlHQUnjm76dTq15Q9ctvWO_X9X3CRbi9pSO_-1oUNhf47EPuWGw814t98C6Xv0LBZQnLbrOLFsPJ0iD89cKF2J0pPgGv8-h8Reu9Lk/s1600/Picture+of+George+Washington+Carver+taken+by+Frances+Benjamin+Johnston+in+1906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZqmOIVDrox8rG56t8LANErGHmz_GQnOLj9qhFADlHQUnjm76dTq15Q9ctvWO_X9X3CRbi9pSO_-1oUNhf47EPuWGw814t98C6Xv0LBZQnLbrOLFsPJ0iD89cKF2J0pPgGv8-h8Reu9Lk/s200/Picture+of+George+Washington+Carver+taken+by+Frances+Benjamin+Johnston+in+1906.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture of George Washington Carver (1864-1943)</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">taken yesteryear Frances Benjamin Johnston inwards 1906</span></strong></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: left;"> <em>“I dear to intend of nature equally an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if nosotros volition only melody in.”</em> George Washington Carver</div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The peanut butter packaged as well as sold yesteryear such American brands equally Skippy was invented yesteryear MD George Washington Carver. In U.S. society, Carver is the begin mortal of tape to stimulate crude out of the peanut. This is the same peanut crude that tin live constitute on many grocery shop shelves today. While many people know virtually these innovations, they produce non know that Carver developed these inventions, also equally hundreds of other derivative products from the peanut, pecan, as well as sweetness potato.</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> MD Carver works included the evolution of agricultural derived adhesives, gasoline fuel, shaving cream, shampoos, mitt lotions, insecticide, glue, bleach, sugar, synthetic rubber, as well as other innovations from natural agricultural resources. He devoted his life to agreement nature as well as the option uses of a elementary plant. He is reported to demand maintain extracted medicines from weeds as well as through the separation of fats, oils, gums, resins as well as sugars, he constitute over 300 novel uses for the peanut alone.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong></strong> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlXeSCczVIj-O6gHn1gyvHRJ4VbSXcl3XUyXWuwb_-wT38XzvDcDHnNPVTI2vh-a8iP0puLeD8833sZxBwdU8xfTQ1rLTEOyAR8KlKJGL2t-1A_P5eJYgaAuZHOn6qF3fh8Z3qUsCxDg/s1600/George-washington-carver-nmon-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlXeSCczVIj-O6gHn1gyvHRJ4VbSXcl3XUyXWuwb_-wT38XzvDcDHnNPVTI2vh-a8iP0puLeD8833sZxBwdU8xfTQ1rLTEOyAR8KlKJGL2t-1A_P5eJYgaAuZHOn6qF3fh8Z3qUsCxDg/s320/George-washington-carver-nmon-1.jpg" /></a></div> <blockquote> <em>Photo of the George Washington Carver National Monument, a unit of measurement of the National Park Service located virtually ii miles due west of Diamond, Missouri. Depicting MD Carver equally a immature boy, this statute was founded on July 14, 1943 yesteryear Franklin Delano Roosevelt who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the begin national monument dedicated to an African-American as well as begin to a non-President.</em></blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1864 (exact nativity appointment unknown), George Washington Carver was born into the establishment of slavery close Diamond Grove, Missouri. He was kidnapped from his woman nurture yesteryear slavers equally a baby. As a slave, his early on weak status inwards trunk made him of no utilization inwards the field. Carver worked inwards a domestic capacity as well as gardening became a piece of employment of his work. On the plantation he was known equally the 'Plant Doctor." Despite the challenge of his birth, Carver applied as well as was admitted to Highland College inwards Highland, Kansas from his application submission that did non refer or asking his race. When he arrived at Highland College its president, learning therefore of his pare color, withdrew the college's acceptance.</div> <div> </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/AVvXsEj2Kn97iayuiG9DCJSnwQghPHC8JUBxDUU7LpZ6-7e75EDb24A2raugXrJUYACTp9lUO8Yo1fOFjOw_ugROPUOyqvKJe7FqPTn-VluBPN11lwhPUeNL_HYJnuDr_Yq-umuLb4uHqrn4YJg/s1600/george-washington-carver-pix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Kn97iayuiG9DCJSnwQghPHC8JUBxDUU7LpZ6-7e75EDb24A2raugXrJUYACTp9lUO8Yo1fOFjOw_ugROPUOyqvKJe7FqPTn-VluBPN11lwhPUeNL_HYJnuDr_Yq-umuLb4uHqrn4YJg/s320/george-washington-carver-pix.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>George Washington Carver inwards his laboratory.</strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At that indicate inwards his life, instead of college, Carver went into business. He opened a laundry as well as afterward worked equally a gear upwardly inwards Winterset, Iowa. Saving his money, Carver was the begin mortal of African descent to live admitted to Simpson College inwards Iowa. He eventually transferred to Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State College). There he earned a Bachelors as well as Masters of Science degrees inwards agricultural as well as bacterial botany. Carver became the begin dark instructor at Iowa State College.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfcPzZL7hQ2VEAxKJRvjKwe3vKYvx8adyBK8KzvJmSJuSkr0epsLZYL5tOXMpnIZLE5G_A8kI8ruZZPRz4ZjU0xo63fdSDKsdZEUgOgbtfAZ80Nw491G6IRlyQQ9XimkVDOuCc_uejaI/s1600/Photo+of+George+Washington+Carver+(front+row,+center)+poses+with+fellow+staff+members+at+the+Tuskegee+Institute+(now+known+as+Tuskegee+University)+located+in+the+U.S.+state+of+Alabama..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfcPzZL7hQ2VEAxKJRvjKwe3vKYvx8adyBK8KzvJmSJuSkr0epsLZYL5tOXMpnIZLE5G_A8kI8ruZZPRz4ZjU0xo63fdSDKsdZEUgOgbtfAZ80Nw491G6IRlyQQ9XimkVDOuCc_uejaI/s320/Photo+of+George+Washington+Carver+(front+row,+center)+poses+with+fellow+staff+members+at+the+Tuskegee+Institute+(now+known+as+Tuskegee+University)+located+in+the+U.S.+state+of+Alabama..jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">George Washington Carver (center, front end row) poses amongst beau </span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Tuskegee Institute </strong><strong>staff members inwards 1902 (now known equally Tuskegee University)</strong> </span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Upon the invite of Booker T. Washington, MD Carver relocated to Alabama's Tuskegee Normal as well as Industrial Institute (Tuskegee Institute, right away known equally Tuskegee University). At Tuskegee, Carver spearheaded the university's Agricultural Department, a dynamic agricultural inquiry subdivision that he served for to a greater extent than than l years. There was much farming innovation developed out of Tuskegee during the course of didactics of Carver's leadership. This included translating scientific theory into cracking practical assistance to local farmers, including old slaves, who sought self-sufficiency through farming. Carver assisted many southern farmers, dark as well as white, in producing additional products from their staple crops inwards an attempt to growth solid unit of measurement farm income.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEuEfbNZJ05ixF1cJ4BJ5YpEocVyBlJk-EiFaQiO2Qd4EcjB5du4S8ZIRATflJBDz9U6zOIoZfQDpthd96cyPPJn8B4Q8rKpI-i8-GJw4GxBPKeO4z151-aOTitdkbFGz0VBv84Z_zUU/s1600/Illustration+of+George+Washington+Carver+by+Charles+Alston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEuEfbNZJ05ixF1cJ4BJ5YpEocVyBlJk-EiFaQiO2Qd4EcjB5du4S8ZIRATflJBDz9U6zOIoZfQDpthd96cyPPJn8B4Q8rKpI-i8-GJw4GxBPKeO4z151-aOTitdkbFGz0VBv84Z_zUU/s320/Illustration+of+George+Washington+Carver+by+Charles+Alston.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>Illustration of George Washington Carver yesteryear Charles Alston (1943)</strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Carver's piece of employment was a course of didactics inwards sustainable development. His legacy is the master green. This included providing American farmers preparation inwards soil fertilization as well as crop rotation innovations. He introduced southern farmers to novel soil enriching plants such equally the peanut, pecan, as well as the sweetness potatoe. This diversified the agricultural tradition of farmers inwards the U.S. southern states whose agricultural economic scheme was based predominantly on cotton wool production. Carver's piece of employment inwards agricultural recycling is meaning inwards that he introduced southern farmers to practical innovative uses for farm waste. Tuskegee Institute inquiry during this fourth dimension included scientific works inwards chemistry, nutrition, flora pathology, as well as genetics.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzwmWpJLRGvlvnqoxXiIxzMSqoEsHyuLzR0hEG4Y6qW32M2Muek_HziqXjDpmCalCEq_dzGIXCQwnVscQZYjy2VW7HuX6mpzwsd7TpFzCha98XvI35dnEIfKqMqV_9xt_u0UHLkCUkv8/s1600/Painting+of+George+Washington+Carver,+by+Betsy+Graves+Reyneau,+Oil+on+canvas+(1942).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzwmWpJLRGvlvnqoxXiIxzMSqoEsHyuLzR0hEG4Y6qW32M2Muek_HziqXjDpmCalCEq_dzGIXCQwnVscQZYjy2VW7HuX6mpzwsd7TpFzCha98XvI35dnEIfKqMqV_9xt_u0UHLkCUkv8/s320/Painting+of+George+Washington+Carver,+by+Betsy+Graves+Reyneau,+Oil+on+canvas+(1942).jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>Painting of George Washington Carver, </strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>by Betsy Graves Reyneau, crude on sail (1942)</strong></div> <blockquote> <em>“Reading virtually nature is fine, but if a mortal walks inwards the woods as well as listens carefully, he tin larn to a greater extent than than what is inwards books, for they utter amongst the vocalisation of God.”</em>  George Washington Carver</blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries inwards the plain of agricultural chemistry," stated the belatedly U.S. President Franklin T. Roosevelt. "The things which he achieved inwards the aspect upwardly of early on handicaps volition for all fourth dimension afford an inspiring example to youth everywhere." </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUAjMlj2ClUPnlQMjqAFWYdB0bmcyi4w4Bypf5Do8MhW0qm_dn3QpZtB1i2c6IvlyLGudJk6RAmXsWmMKC_TdWn5i1-GGeOc4g-TdH-YfHwCRFTAovwd8wyDsaU7eKfBOCgTpUkdMfp4/s1600/George+Washington+Carver+Stamp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUAjMlj2ClUPnlQMjqAFWYdB0bmcyi4w4Bypf5Do8MhW0qm_dn3QpZtB1i2c6IvlyLGudJk6RAmXsWmMKC_TdWn5i1-GGeOc4g-TdH-YfHwCRFTAovwd8wyDsaU7eKfBOCgTpUkdMfp4/s320/George+Washington+Carver+Stamp.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <strong>George Washington Carver postage stamp issued on Jan 5, 1948 </strong><br /> <strong>by the U.S.A. Postal Service</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> George Washington Carver received iii formal U.S. patents from his peanut inventions. His works, however, includes 118 applications for inventions derived from sweetness potatoes, cowpeas, soybeans, as well as pecans. His sweetness white patato inventions included 73 dyes, 17 woods fillers, xiv candies, five library pastes, five breakfast foods, four starches, four flours, 3 molasses’s, vinegar as well as spiced vinegar, dry out java as well as instant coffee, candy, after-dinner mints, orangish drops, as well as lemon drops.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The National Peanut Board reports MD Carver's works to include nutrient products that ranged from "peanut lemon punch, chili sauce, caramel, peanut sausage, mayonnaise as well as coffee. Cosmetics included aspect upwardly powder, shampoo, shaving cream as well as mitt lotion. Insecticides, glue, charcoal, rubber, nitroglycerine, plastics as well as axle grease are simply a few of the many valuable peanut products discovered yesteryear MD Carver.”</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_hDp0q-_zftKZ1ZSRRKwtDpqxDZ2eKFK0Dr3jrWntO9LrOrYvICHN36h7raq-5ImgAmbutNGyMGv43EeEkK3LiuZHEQrnpNYDW7nMXFqoUCuN_tTxpVfNioqK1cdbjY-3lsybEGfjfo/s1600/Worker+on+the+SS+George+Washington+Carver+in+the+Richmond+Yards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_hDp0q-_zftKZ1ZSRRKwtDpqxDZ2eKFK0Dr3jrWntO9LrOrYvICHN36h7raq-5ImgAmbutNGyMGv43EeEkK3LiuZHEQrnpNYDW7nMXFqoUCuN_tTxpVfNioqK1cdbjY-3lsybEGfjfo/s320/Worker+on+the+SS+George+Washington+Carver+in+the+Richmond+Yards.jpg" /></a></div> <blockquote> <em>An African American worker at the Richmond Shipyards, Richmond, California, USA (April 1943) rushing the</em> SS George Washington Carver<em> send to completion. Black skilled workers played an of import piece of employment inwards the structure of the </em>SS George Washington Carver<em>, the minute Liberty Ship named for a mortal of African descent, inwards the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company (California).</em> </blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRPi4XcvCCn-0Iikol2pmoyb8rEqpD3vqljb1XLO_7vhNIqYABThtcIFSNqe4nYBGuzO8lNv__vNdaZHOge0Xu5nST4np9LfOVNF8YwEeemnvBnwMCzxmf4A8z1XQ9OrjY1MM-XksMew/s1600/Statute+of+George+Washington+Carver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRPi4XcvCCn-0Iikol2pmoyb8rEqpD3vqljb1XLO_7vhNIqYABThtcIFSNqe4nYBGuzO8lNv__vNdaZHOge0Xu5nST4np9LfOVNF8YwEeemnvBnwMCzxmf4A8z1XQ9OrjY1MM-XksMew/s320/Statute+of+George+Washington+Carver.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong>Statute of George Washington Carver</strong></div> </div>

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Kwame Nkrumah: The Showtime President Of The Independent Nation Of Ghana

<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/AVvXsEh2RG1IUenq8jBepH4sSptZ-iYgHfOL2BkffbgbLimKs2tvLJ928VIjPHTTRICxmuSNdHZBfmUZAB8Q75LnFF5Lyq1m8XZXY2CLov6auzh9I88hG_GezJIdq4L9SmPuONkGDo6noIxrBg4/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2RG1IUenq8jBepH4sSptZ-iYgHfOL2BkffbgbLimKs2tvLJ928VIjPHTTRICxmuSNdHZBfmUZAB8Q75LnFF5Lyq1m8XZXY2CLov6auzh9I88hG_GezJIdq4L9SmPuONkGDo6noIxrBg4/s200/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (born: September 21, 1909 - died: Apr 27, 1972).</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">First President of Republic of Ghana in addition to a founding fellow member of the Organization of African Unity.</span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Kwame Nkrumah was born September 21, 1909 at Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana). He was originally named subsequently Francis Nwia-Kofi, an honored family personality. Son of goldsmith Kofi Ngonloma of the Asona Clan in addition to Elizabeth Nyanibah of the Anona Clan, Nkrumah showed an early on thirst for education. In 1930, Nkrumah completed studies at the acclaimed Prince of Wales’ Achimota School inwards Accra. doc Kwegyir Aggrey, Assistant Vice Principal in addition to the commencement African staff fellow member at the college, became his mentor.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Kwame Nkrumah U.S. Studies</b><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1935, Nkrumah undertook advance studies in the United States at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. In 1939,  he earned an BA in Economics in addition to Sociology. By 1942, he earned an BA in Theology. By 1943, Nkrumah had earned an M.Sc. (Education), an MA (Philosophy), in addition to completed course of written report operate for a Ph. D. bird at the University of Pennsylvania. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> During his U.S. undergraduate studies, Nkrumah also pledged the predominately African-American Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, an academic honour society. He is said to accept introduced African traditional steps to the fraternity's stepping tradition, including <a href="http://students.washington.edu/pbskl/step.htm">cane stepping</a>.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Kwame Nkrumah Organizes Pan-Africans inwards Europe</b><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Arriving inwards London inwards May of 1945, Nkrumah organized the fifth Pan-African Congress inwards Manchester, England in addition to began networking through organizations similar the West African Students' Union, where he served every bit vice-president. This same twelvemonth he officially changed his cite from Francis Nwia-Kofi to Kwame Nkrumah.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdJjevNEzUFUwirKS-zLMf_GRkQwejuDB8dlz_iU4vJ43d2CswfwVXJcfUYmyg5sJz0UmVuioKuirO6-_56yaZba78idtC_PP7SttOpCIaTc6_stFZOVo6LDJ5tWbOLUrxKDDfeRiEJw/s1600/GHANA.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdJjevNEzUFUwirKS-zLMf_GRkQwejuDB8dlz_iU4vJ43d2CswfwVXJcfUYmyg5sJz0UmVuioKuirO6-_56yaZba78idtC_PP7SttOpCIaTc6_stFZOVo6LDJ5tWbOLUrxKDDfeRiEJw/s320/GHANA.gif" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Image of the West African patch of Ghana</b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By Dec 1947, Nkrumah had returned to his homeland every bit a teacher, scholar, in addition to political activist. He became General Secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), which explored strategies for gaining independence from colonial England. Under Nkrumah's leadership, the UGCC attracted local political support from farmers in addition to women. Women did non have the correct to vote in many traditional patriarchial societies in addition to farmers who were non land-owners also did non accept the suffrage. In 1948, Accra, Kumasi, in addition to other areas of the Gold Coast were experiencing full general social unrest, which the British colonial regime accredited to the UGCC. By 1949, Nkrumah had galvanized broad back upwards in addition to reorganized his efforts under the Convention People's Party (CPP). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kwame Nkrumah advocated for constitutional changes. This included self-government, universal franchise without holding qualifications, in addition to a split upwards solid of chiefs. Jailed past times the colonial direction inwards 1950 for his political activism, the CPP's 1951 election sweep was followed past times Nkrumah's release. <span class="st"><br /></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsXDACRuB0qf-ZGxe9u52VTKaAqOfQ4p-gtwYH4sECHMC4zDIhDbcShPByBAzRT8QAbPwIIaKB32gyi27MZaw21Rg1xPRD8EiysSc2HtlWq6rbtyWUxrjbHpY60a5KRVi4nj-kVICttM/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+and+Dr.+Martin+Luther+King,+Jr..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="341" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsXDACRuB0qf-ZGxe9u52VTKaAqOfQ4p-gtwYH4sECHMC4zDIhDbcShPByBAzRT8QAbPwIIaKB32gyi27MZaw21Rg1xPRD8EiysSc2HtlWq6rbtyWUxrjbHpY60a5KRVi4nj-kVICttM/s320/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+and+Dr.+Martin+Luther+King,+Jr..jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Kwame Nkrumah in addition to doc Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> H5N1 devout Pan-Africanist, Nkrumah supported African federation nether the auspices of the U.S.A. of African. He also had meaningful dialogue with African intellectuals from the diaspora, including W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., in addition to <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=marcus-garvey">Marcus Mosiah Garvey</a>. He also corresponded alongside Trinidadian C.L.R. James, whom he credited alongside teaching him how an "underground receive worked." Nkrumah played a pivotal work inwards developing the Organization of African Unity (OAU) inwards 1963, the same twelvemonth he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.<br /> <a name='more'></a><br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtMwxwM4N9TBEIO94ghJOa8bsH6d1pWYcKDfh2WRFZSz4JEh7R1THk8bL1pzsW1uUNwlBJo5EY-WYjq6r4RxbI6yr50yee9fswwtDR-oj2TyMmj3uj4e0rIZCzHFMdvBk37IF2sUVjQs/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Hall+in+Dar+Es+Salaam+Tanzania.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtMwxwM4N9TBEIO94ghJOa8bsH6d1pWYcKDfh2WRFZSz4JEh7R1THk8bL1pzsW1uUNwlBJo5EY-WYjq6r4RxbI6yr50yee9fswwtDR-oj2TyMmj3uj4e0rIZCzHFMdvBk37IF2sUVjQs/s320/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Hall+in+Dar+Es+Salaam+Tanzania.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</span></b></div> <br /> <b>President of Republic of Ghana inwards West Africa</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Republic of Ghana was declared an independent nation from British colonization on March 6, 1957.<span class="st"></span> By 1964, Republic of Ghana was operating every bit a one-party nation alongside Kwame Nkrumah every bit it's commencement President in addition to Prime Minister -- alongside a life term of office. Nkrumah is oftentimes criticized for developing non-participatory governance subsequently independence inwards Ghana. By 1966, the Ghanaian armed forces overthrew Nkrumah's administration. Nkrumah died inwards exile on Apr 27, 1972 inwards Bucharest, Romania.<br />   </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM99FFU7iEhDmwCogOMioAhPe3WF5le9A5913_LSX8INcXDG0PQ_uAvklTl-phMLX__6wXEvng_2ojH2TF_rrb3tDscAKddPgA9r79-ekTvEpuM3x870E1uaS0IvLOOKialsc3uNOYyLs/s1600/photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Mausoleum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM99FFU7iEhDmwCogOMioAhPe3WF5le9A5913_LSX8INcXDG0PQ_uAvklTl-phMLX__6wXEvng_2ojH2TF_rrb3tDscAKddPgA9r79-ekTvEpuM3x870E1uaS0IvLOOKialsc3uNOYyLs/s320/photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Mausoleum.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in addition to Memorial Park is located </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in downtown Accra, the upper-case alphabetic quality of Ghana</span></b></div> <br /> Here is a video dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah past times Ghana's really ain participant Obrafour:<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gMih2TddFdQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gMih2TddFdQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> </div>

Kwame Nkrumah: The Showtime President Of The Independent Nation Of Ghana

Photo of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (born: September 21, 1909 - died: Apr 27, 1972). First President of Republic of Ghana in addition to a founding fellow member of the Organization of African Unity.…

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