American History: Black History Month Programs

African Americans On Maui Association

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

African Americans On Maui Association

As business office of the 2010 Black History Month, the African Americans on Maui Association hosts a novel mass unloosen launch of Afric...

Annie Turnbo Malone: A Dark Philanthropist In Addition To Entrepreneur

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table 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/AVvXsEi9bGCKpyabFNwl61owEwvLNWE8he1Se-TH3UEn4x7otTk0bOZcX5Z2YcjgTU-LCNFYJpDLJJqRJLiOCTKgQ0l565mw3dZt3m2TwqkW1V4RKDdvWswz2WZRs51RM88EI0ijRUwDLHVKXMk/s1600/Photo+of+Annie+Turnbo+Pope+Malone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bGCKpyabFNwl61owEwvLNWE8he1Se-TH3UEn4x7otTk0bOZcX5Z2YcjgTU-LCNFYJpDLJJqRJLiOCTKgQ0l565mw3dZt3m2TwqkW1V4RKDdvWswz2WZRs51RM88EI0ijRUwDLHVKXMk/s200/Photo+of+Annie+Turnbo+Pope+Malone.jpg" width="168" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: medium;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Annie Turnbo Malone </span></strong></div> <div style="font-size: medium;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1869-1957)</span></strong></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /> </b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before Oprah Winfrey in addition to Madame C.J. Walker, at that spot was Annie Turnbo Malone (aka <em>Annie Minerva Turnbo Pope Malone </em>and<em> Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone</em>), an African American entrepreneur in addition to philanthropist during the early on 20th century. Malone is recorded equally the U.S.'s outset Black woman millionaire based on reports of $14 i thou one thousand inward assets held inward 1920 from her beauty in addition to cosmetic enterprises, headquartered inward St. Louis in addition to Chicago. </div> <br /> <strong>Early Life of Annie Turnbo</strong><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On August 9, 1869, Robert Turnbo and Isabella Cook became parents to Annie inward Metropolis, Illinois. Annie attended schoolhouse inward Illinois where she apprentenced amongst her sis equally a hairdresser. By 1889, Malone had developed her ain scalp in addition to pilus products that she demonstrated in addition to sold from a buggy throughout Illinois. </div> <br /> <strong>Launches the "Poro" Brand inward St. Louis, MO</strong><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-nAK4B99iieJjqc97Lo_A8bN_xGT_g_6SkuvL2VPfcK6pm7rGrIFVmMNUNlQFaVrrwZyH60ylvUEq3TDztADMd9MdRdOxc1oTrw9Cy-t1X0ZtN0CpGprLf0rHmlNCPVeCjMDqgvKQ8M/s1600/Photo+of+Poro+College,+St.+Louis.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-nAK4B99iieJjqc97Lo_A8bN_xGT_g_6SkuvL2VPfcK6pm7rGrIFVmMNUNlQFaVrrwZyH60ylvUEq3TDztADMd9MdRdOxc1oTrw9Cy-t1X0ZtN0CpGprLf0rHmlNCPVeCjMDqgvKQ8M/s320/Photo+of+Poro+College,+St.+Louis.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image of Poro College, St. Louis</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1902, Malone's trouble organization growth led her to St. Louis, Missouri, which at the fourth dimension held the 4th largest population of African Americans. In St. Louis she copyrighted her Poro get beauty products. In 1914, in a St. Louis wedding, Malone married the schoolhouse primary Aaron Eugene Malon.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgxUT_5Ukro_De2ROzli8M1brHryY5wQFlVkTqba717capVkHyu1YoKhZZuyr1ByPYniucs_jUEqsQY5Xcs2TQZUR-_KvPX-z_DqdjVTXXwqT8Bvs1VV-ekHSdQm2MQlZ3zWHcvR3rf4/s1600/Photo+of+Annie+Turnbo+Pope+Malone,+Poro+College.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgxUT_5Ukro_De2ROzli8M1brHryY5wQFlVkTqba717capVkHyu1YoKhZZuyr1ByPYniucs_jUEqsQY5Xcs2TQZUR-_KvPX-z_DqdjVTXXwqT8Bvs1VV-ekHSdQm2MQlZ3zWHcvR3rf4/s320/Photo+of+Annie+Turnbo+Pope+Malone,+Poro+College.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Poro College Administrative Building</span></strong></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1917, Malone opened the doors of Poro College, a beauty college which was later attended yesteryear Madam C.J. Walker. The schoolhouse reportedly graduated virtually 75,000 agents world-wide, including the Caribbean. By 1930, the outset amount yr of the Great Depression, Malone had moved from Missouri after divorcing her bit hubby in addition to settled on Chicago's South Side.</div> <br /> <strong>The Black Philanthropist</strong><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> From 1919 to 1943, Malone served equally board president of the St. Louis Colored Orphan's Home.  She had donated the outset $10,000 to build the orphanage's new edifice inward 1919. During the 1920s, Malone's philanthropy included financing the educational activity of two full-time students inward every historically dark college in addition to university. Her $25,000 donation to Howard University was amid the largest gifts the academy had received yesteryear a somebody donor of African descent. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjuJQkaiSreMlcJeSOziRZJ2iNKUp9gb3JaWiyFQK4xa1yzGF6CPrpw4b9NMEFlXMfrJD99fGVcGJnILOHaz3tEIANFhpGHQF-Zl_lCBtzDMitwIYTPRdoXlfwL7reWn7rkKuxdXvvs8/s1600/Photo+of+Annie+Malone,+Black+Entrepreneur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjuJQkaiSreMlcJeSOziRZJ2iNKUp9gb3JaWiyFQK4xa1yzGF6CPrpw4b9NMEFlXMfrJD99fGVcGJnILOHaz3tEIANFhpGHQF-Zl_lCBtzDMitwIYTPRdoXlfwL7reWn7rkKuxdXvvs8/s320/Photo+of+Annie+Malone,+Black+Entrepreneur.jpg" width="253" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Annie Turnbo Malone</span></strong></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On May 10, 1957, Annie Turnbo Malone was treated for a stroke at Provident Hospital inward Chicago where she died. At the fourth dimension of her decease Poro beauty colleges were inward performance inward to a greater extent than than thirty U.S. cities.<br /> <a name='more'></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> St. Louis honors her retentivity amongst the Annie Malone Children in addition to Family Service Center whose mission is "is to ameliorate the character of life for children, families, elderly in addition to the community yesteryear providing social services, educational programs, advocacy in addition to entrepreneurship." </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uVOOjnbJ-EU?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uVOOjnbJ-EU?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> <br /> <strong>Further reference</strong>: Annie Malone Children in addition to Family Service Center: <a href="http://www.anniemalone.com/about-us.html">www.anniemalone.com/about-us.html</a></div>

Annie Turnbo Malone: A Dark Philanthropist In Addition To Entrepreneur

Photo of Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957) Before Oprah Winfrey in addition to Madame C.J. Walker, at that spot was Annie Turnbo...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Atlanta Speech

<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/AVvXsEg7ZpbJFq2RlMbRLsoU_bX_yLwzCMNSLg8h3Hltn6ySGFdN1U8ImnbNxSCXCsOTQrTlH6sBS9G_zv_dr-MCAG1gZzOJ8MpqnV-QFYX3AGlUZlpY0g6FqRV8ShXil2JL7v_JfmlLfYtHqDk/s1600/Photo+of+Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+Orator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZpbJFq2RlMbRLsoU_bX_yLwzCMNSLg8h3Hltn6ySGFdN1U8ImnbNxSCXCsOTQrTlH6sBS9G_zv_dr-MCAG1gZzOJ8MpqnV-QFYX3AGlUZlpY0g6FqRV8ShXil2JL7v_JfmlLfYtHqDk/s320/Photo+of+Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+Orator.jpg" width="320" /></a><em><strong></strong></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><strong>The populace address past times doc Martin Luther King, Jr., reprinted here, was made to the Tenth Anniversary Convention of the S.C.L.C. inwards Atlanta, Georgia on August 16, 1967.</strong></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">'Where Do We Go From Here'</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Southern Christian Leadership Conference</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.</strong><br /> (born: Jan 15, 1929 – died: Apr 4, 1968)</div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span> ow, inwards monastic enjoin to respond the question, "Where make nosotros travel from here?" which is our theme, nosotros must showtime honestly recognize where nosotros are now. When the Constitution was written, a unusual formula to determine taxes together with representation declared that the Negro was lx percentage of a person. Today some other curious formula seems to declare he is 50 percentage of a person. Of the practiced things inwards life, the Negro has unopen to 1 one-half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus one-half of all Negroes alive inwards substandard housing. And Negroes select one-half the income of whites. When nosotros see the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The charge per unit of measurement of babe mortality alongside Negroes is double that of whites together with in that location are twice as many Negroes dying inwards Vietnam as whites inwards proportion to their size inwards the population. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In other spheres, the figures are every bit alarming. In uncomplicated schools, Negroes lag 1 to 3 years behind whites, together with their segregated schools have substantially less coin per educatee than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percentage agree menial jobs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is where nosotros are. Where make nosotros travel from here? First, nosotros must massively assert our dignity together with worth. We must stand upwards up amidst a organization that soundless oppresses us together with develop an unassailable together with violet feel of values. We must no longer live ashamed of beingness black. The chore of arousing manhood inside a people that select been taught for together with so many centuries that they are nobody is non easy. </div><br /> <strong>DEPICTION OF BLACKNESS AND NEGRO CONTRIBUTIONS</strong><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiICPXApoLvNcfS6wqZr7tLK5o7pfUpfnVRrC2MsgVyK12pQTXpny_34x0ECWCBKPzxi_IN7UpIbnmHm_mEaHgcOKqWO7DAlkiw-9AMjlar6z-woB-cNPcAgGt1s5BNr56AVjkaBCJjZo/s1600/Photo+of+Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+Speech.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiICPXApoLvNcfS6wqZr7tLK5o7pfUpfnVRrC2MsgVyK12pQTXpny_34x0ECWCBKPzxi_IN7UpIbnmHm_mEaHgcOKqWO7DAlkiw-9AMjlar6z-woB-cNPcAgGt1s5BNr56AVjkaBCJjZo/s320/Photo+of+Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+Speech.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Photo of Martn Luther King, Jr.</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even semantics select conspired to create that which is dark seem ugly together with degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus in that location are 120 synonyms for blackness together with at to the lowest degree lx of them are offensive, as for example, blot, soot, grim, devil together with foul. And in that location are some 134 synonyms for whiteness together with all are favorable, expressed inwards such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity together with innocence. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 white prevarication is ameliorate than a dark lie. The most degenerate fellow member of a menage unit of measurement is a "black sheep." Ossie Davis has suggested that mayhap the English linguistic communication language should live reconstructed together with so that teachers volition non live forced to learn the Negro kid lx ways to despise himself, together with thereby perpetuate his imitation feel of inferiority, together with the white kid 134 ways to adore himself, together with thereby perpetuate his imitation feel of superiority. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The vogue to ignore the Negro's contribution to American life together with to strip him of his personhood, is as onetime as the earliest history books together with as contemporary as the morning's newspaper. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must ascent upwards with an affirmation of his ain Olympian manhood. Any motion for the Negro's liberty that overlooks this necessity is entirely waiting to live buried. As long as the hear is enslaved, the trunk tin never live free. Psychological freedom, a theater feel of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long nighttime of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill tin totally convey this form of freedom. The Negro volition entirely live costless when he reaches downwards to the inner depths of his ain beingness together with signs with the pen together with ink of assertive manhood his ain Emancipation Proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward truthful self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation together with tell to himself together with to the world, "I am somebody. I am a person. I am a human being with dignity together with honor. I select a rich together with noble history. How painful together with exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents together with I am non ashamed of that. I'm ashamed of the people who were together with so sinful to create me a slave." Yes, nosotros must stand upwards up together with say, "I'm dark together with I'm beautiful," together with this self-affirmation is the dark man's need, made compelling past times the white man's crimes against him. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>BASIC CHALLENGES</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another basic challenge is to discovery how to organize our strength inwards damage of economical together with political power. No 1 tin deny that the Negro is inwards dire demand of this form of legitimate power. Indeed, 1 of the swell problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From onetime plantations of the South to newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness together with powerlessness. Stripped of the right to create decisions concerning his life together with destiny he has been dependent area to the authoritarian together with sometimes whimsical decisions of this white powerfulness structure. The plantation together with ghetto were created past times those who had power, both to confine those who had no powerfulness together with to perpetuate their powerlessness. The job of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a job of power--confrontation of the forces of powerfulness demanding alter together with the forces of powerfulness dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now powerfulness properly understood is aught but the powerfulness to attain purpose. It is the strength required to convey virtually social, political together with economical change. Walter Reuther defined powerfulness 1 day. He said, "Power is the powerfulness of a labor spousal human relationship similar the U.A.W. to create the most powerful corporation inwards the world, General Motors, tell 'Yes' when it wants to tell 'No.' That's power." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now a lot of us are preachers, together with all of us select our moral convictions together with concerns, together with and so oft select problems with power. There is aught incorrect with powerfulness if powerfulness is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And 1 of the swell problems of history is that the concepts of dear together with powerfulness select ordinarily been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites, together with so that dear is identified with a resignation of power, together with powerfulness with a denial of love. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the volition to power, to pass upwards the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to pass upwards the Nietzschean philosophy of the volition to powerfulness inwards the advert of the Christian thought of love. Now, we've got to larn this thing right. What is needed is a realization that powerfulness without dear is reckless together with abusive, together with dear without powerfulness is sentimental together with anemic. Power at its best is dear implementing the demands of justice, together with justice at its best is powerfulness correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what nosotros must come across as nosotros displace on. What has happened is that nosotros select had it incorrect together with confused inwards our ain country, together with this has led Negro Americans inwards the past times to seek their goals through powerfulness devoid of dear together with conscience. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive together with conscienceless powerfulness that they select justly abhorred inwards whites. It is just this collision of immoral powerfulness with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DEVELOPING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 PROGRAM?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We must develop a programme that volition drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. Now, early on inwards this century this proposal would select been greeted with ridicule together with denunciation, as destructive of first together with responsibility. At that fourth dimension economical status was considered the stair out of the individual's powerfulness together with talents. And, inwards the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a wishing of industrious habits together with moral fiber. We've come upwards a long way inwards our agreement of human motivation together with of the blind functioning of our economical system. Now nosotros realize that dislocations inwards the marketplace operations of our economic scheme together with the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness together with bind them inwards constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less oft dismissed, I hope, from our consciences past times beingness branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no affair how dynamically the economic scheme develops together with expands, it does non eliminate all poverty. <br /> <br /> <a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The job indicates that our emphasis must live twofold. We must create total work or nosotros must create incomes. People must live made consumers past times 1 method or the other. Once they are placed inwards this seat nosotros demand to live concerned that the potential of the private is non wasted. New forms of function that heighten the social practiced volition select to live devised for those for whom traditional jobs are non available. In I879 Henry George anticipated this province of affairs when he wrote inwards Progress together with Poverty: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>"The fact is that the function which improves the status of mankind, the function which extends cognition together with increases powerfulness together with enriches literature together with elevates thought, is non done to secure a living. It is non the function of slaves driven to their tasks either past times the task, past times the taskmaster, or past times beast necessity. It is the function of men who somehow observe a cast of function that brings a safety for its ain sake together with a province of guild where wishing is abolished." </blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Work of this sort could live enormously increased, together with nosotros are probable to observe that the problems of housing together with education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, volition themselves live affected if poverty is showtime abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers volition make a swell bargain on their ain to alter housing decay. Negroes who select a double disability volition select a greater upshot on discrimination when they select the additional weapon of cash to utilisation inwards their struggle. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably volition outcome from widespread economical security. The dignity of the private volition flourish when the decisions concerning his life are inwards his ain hands, when he has the agency to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts alongside husbands, wives together with children volition diminish when the unjust measure of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now our solid soil tin make this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could live done for virtually 20 billion dollars a year. And I tell to you lot today, that if our nation tin pass thirty-five billion dollars a twelvemonth to grapple an unjust, evil state of war inwards Vietnam, together with 20 billion dollars to set a human being on the moon, it tin pass billions of dollars to set God's children on their ain 2 feet right hither on earth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>COMMITMENT TO NONVIOLENCE?</strong> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, allow me tell briefly that nosotros must reaffirm our commitment to nonviolence. I wishing to stress this. The futility of violence inwards the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched inwards all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to analyze the riots together with bargain with their causes. Today I wishing to give the other side. There is sure as shooting something painfully poor virtually a riot. One sees screaming youngsters together with angry adults fighting hopelessly together with aimlessly against impossible odds. And deep downwards inside them, you lot tin fifty-fifty come across a wishing for self-destruction, a form of suicidal longing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Occasionally Negroes debate that the 1965 Watts riot together with the other riots inwards diverse cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who limited this see ever terminate upwards with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains select been won as a result. At best, the riots select produced a niggling additional antipoverty coin allotted past times frightened authorities officials, together with a few water-sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something similar improving the nutrient inwards the prison theater spell the people stay securely incarcerated behind bars. Nowhere select the riots won whatsoever concrete improvement such as select the organized protestation demonstrations. When 1 tries to pivot downwards advocates of violence as to what acts would live effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they utter of overthrowing racist province together with local governments together with they utter virtually guerrilla warfare. They neglect to come across that no internal revolution has ever succeeded inwards overthrowing a authorities past times violence unless the authorities had already lost the allegiance together with effective command of its armed forces. Anyone inwards his right hear knows that this volition non hit off inwards the United States. In a vehement racial situation, the powerfulness construction has the local police, the province troopers, the National Guard and, finally, the Army to telephone call upwards on all of which are predominantly white. Furthermore, few if whatsoever vehement revolutions select been successful unless the vehement minority had the sympathy together with back upwards of the nonresistant majority. Castro may select had entirely a few Cubans genuinely fighting with him upwards inwards the hills, but he could never select overthrown the Batista regime unless he had the sympathy of the vast bulk of Cuban people. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is perfectly clear that a vehement revolution on the business office of American blacks would observe no sympathy together with back upwards from the white population together with really niggling from the bulk of the Negroes themselves. This is no fourth dimension for romantic illusions together with empty philosophical debates virtually freedom. This is a fourth dimension for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical programme that volition convey the Negro into the mainstream of American life as rapidly as possible. So far, this has entirely been offered past times the nonviolent movement. Without recognizing this nosotros volition terminate upwards with solutions that don't solve, answers that don't respond together with explanations that don't explain. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And together with so I tell to you lot today that I soundless stand upwards past times nonviolence. And I am soundless convinced that it is the most strong weapon available to the Negro inwards his struggle for justice inwards this country. And the other thing is that I am concerned virtually a ameliorate world. I'm concerned virtually justice. I'm concerned virtually brotherhood. I'm concerned virtually truth. And when 1 is concerned virtually these, he tin never advocate violence. For through violence you lot may murder a murderer but you lot can't murder. Through violence you lot may murder a liar but you lot can't flora truth. Through violence you lot may murder a hater, but you lot can't murder hate. Darkness cannot publish darkness. Only lite tin make that. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I tell to you, I select also decided to stick to love. For I know that dear is ultimately the entirely respond to mankind's problems. And I'm going to utter virtually it everywhere I go. I know it isn't pop to utter virtually it inwards some circles today. I'm non talking virtually emotional bosh when I utter virtually love, I'm talking virtually a strong, demanding love. And I select seen likewise much hate. I've seen likewise much detest on the faces of sheriffs inwards the South. I've seen detest on the faces of likewise many Klansmen together with likewise many White Citizens Councilors inwards the South to wishing to detest myself, because every fourth dimension I come across it, I know that it does something to their faces together with their personalities together with I tell to myself that detest is likewise swell a burden to bear. I select decided to love. If you lot are seeking the highest good, I think you lot tin observe it through love. And the beautiful thing is that nosotros are moving against incorrect when nosotros make it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does non know God, but he who has dear has the fundamental that unlocks the door to the pregnant of ultimate reality. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wishing to tell to you lot as I displace to my conclusion, as nosotros utter virtually "Where make nosotros travel from here," that nosotros honestly human face the fact that the Movement must address itself to the interrogation of restructuring the whole of American society. There are 40 1000000 poor people here. And 1 24-hour interval nosotros must inquire the question, "Why are in that location 40 1000000 poor people inwards America?" And when you lot start to inquire that question, you lot are raising questions virtually the economical system, virtually a broader distribution of wealth. When you lot inquire that question, you lot start to interrogation the capitalistic economy. And I'm only maxim that to a greater extent than together with more, we've got to start to inquire questions virtually the whole society. We are called upon to assist the discouraged beggars inwards life's marketplace place. But 1 24-hour interval nosotros must come upwards to come across that an building which produces beggars needs restructuring. It agency that questions must live raised. You see, my friends, when you lot bargain with this, you lot start to inquire the question, "Who owns the oil?" You start to inquire the question, "Who owns the atomic issue 26 ore?" You start to inquire the question, "Why is it that people select to pay H2O bills inwards a world that is 2 thirds water?" These are questions that must live asked. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ABOUT COMMUNISM</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, don't think that you lot select me inwards a "bind" today. I'm non talking virtually Communism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">What I'm maxim to you lot this forenoon is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, together with the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither inwards the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but inwards a higher synthesis. It is found inwards a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I tell interrogation the whole society, it agency ultimately coming to come across that the job of racism, the job of economical exploitation, together with the job of state of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you lot volition allow me live a preacher just a niggling flake - One night, a juror came to Jesus together with he wanted to know what he could make to live saved. Jesus didn't larn bogged downwards inwards the form of isolated approach of what he shouldn't do. Jesus didn't say, "Now Nicodemus, you lot must halt lying." HE didn't say, "Nicodemus, you lot must halt cheating if you lot are doing that." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, you lot must non commit adultery." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, straight off you lot must halt drinking liquor if you lot are doing that excessively." He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic - that if a human being volition lie, he volition steal. And if a human being volition steal, he volition kill. So instead of just getting bogged downwards inwards 1 thing, Jesus looked at him together with said, "Nicodemus, you lot must live born again." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said, inwards other words, "Your whole construction must live changed." Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 nation that volition maintain people inwards slavery for 244 years volition "thingify" them - create them things. Therefore they volition exploit them, together with poor people generally, economically. And a nation that volition exploit economically volition select to select unusual investments together with everything else, together with volition select to utilisation its armed forces powerfulness to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am maxim today is that nosotros must travel from this convention together with say, "America, you lot must live born again!" </div><br /> <strong>CONCLUSION</strong><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">So, I conclude past times maxim in 1 lawsuit again today that nosotros select a undertaking together with allow us exit with a "divine dissatisfaction." Let us live dissatisfied until America volition no longer select a high blood pressure level of creeds together with an anemia of deeds. Let us live dissatisfied until the tragic walls that split upwards the outer urban gist of wealth together with comfort together with the inner urban gist of poverty together with despair shall live crushed past times the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us live dissatisfied until those that alive on the outskirts of promise are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us live dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, together with every menage unit of measurement is living inwards a decent sanitary home. Let us live dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools volition live transformed into vivid tomorrows of quality, integrated education. Let us live dissatisfied until integration is non seen as a job but as an chance to participate inwards the beauty of diversity. Let us live dissatisfied until men together with women, withal dark they may be, volition live judged on the soil of the content of their grapheme together with non on the soil of the coloring of their skin. Let us live dissatisfied. Let us live dissatisfied until every province capitol houses a governor who volition make justly, who volition dear mercy together with who volition walk humbly with his God. Let us live dissatisfied until from every urban gist hall, justice volition ringlet downwards similar waters together with righteousness similar a mighty stream. Let us live dissatisfied until that 24-hour interval when the Panthera leo together with the lamb shall prevarication downwards together. together with every human being volition sit down nether his ain vine together with fig tree together with none shall live afraid. Let us live dissatisfied. And men volition recognize that out of 1 blood God made all men to dwell upon the human face of the earth. Let us live dissatisfied until that 24-hour interval when nobody volition scream "White Power!" - when nobody volition scream "Black Power!" - but everybody volition utter virtually God's powerfulness together with human power. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I must confess, my friends, the route ahead volition non ever live smooth. There volition soundless live rocky places of frustration together with meandering points of bewilderment. There volition live inevitable setbacks hither together with there. There volition live those moments when the buoyancy of promise volition live transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams volition sometimes live shattered together with our ethereal hopes blasted. We may in 1 lawsuit again with tear-drenched eyes select to stand upwards earlier the bier of some courageous civil-rights worker whose life volition live snuffed out past times the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult together with painful as it is, nosotros must walk on inwards the days ahead with an audacious faith inwards the future. And as nosotros travel along our charted course, nosotros may gain consolation inwards the words together with so nobly left past times that swell dark bard who was also a swell liberty fighter of yesterday, James Weldon Johnson: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Stony the route nosotros trod,</em><br /> <em>Bitter the chastening rod</em><em><br /> </em><em>Felt inwards the days</em><em><br /> </em><em>When promise unborn had died.</em><br /> <em>Yet with a steady beat,</em><br /> <em>Have non our weary feet</em><br /> <em>Come to the place</em><br /> <em>For which our fathers sighed? </em><br /> <em>We select come upwards over the way</em><br /> <em>That with tears hath been watered.</em><br /> <em>We select come upwards treading our paths</em><br /> <em>Through the blood of the slaughtered,</em><br /> <em>Out from the gloomy past,</em><br /> <em>Till straight off nosotros stand upwards at last</em><br /> <em>Where the vivid gleam</em><br /> <em>Of our vivid star is cast.</em><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let this affirmation live our ringing cry. It volition give us the courage to human face the uncertainties of the future. It volition give our tired feet novel strength as nosotros travel along our frontward footstep toward the urban gist of freedom. When our days travel dreary with depression hovering clouds of despair, together with when our nights travel darker than a grand midnights, allow us think that in that location is a creative strength inwards this universe, working to describe downwards the gigantic mountains of evil, a powerfulness that is able to create a way out of no way together with transform dark yesterdays into vivid tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us realize that William Cullen Bryant is right: "Truth crushed to Earth volition ascent again." Let us exit realizing that the Bible is right: "Be non deceived, God is non mocked. Whatsoever a human being soweth, that shall he also reap." This is our promise for the future, together with with this faith nosotros volition live able to sing inwards some non likewise distant tomorrow with a cosmic past times tense, "We select overcome, nosotros select overcome, deep inwards my heart, I did believe nosotros would overcome." <br /> <br /> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Atlanta Speech

The populace address past times doc Martin Luther King, Jr., reprinted here, was made to the Tenth Anniversary Convention of the S.C.L.C. in...

National Association Of Dark Journalists

<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/AVvXsEioJlO0_jJ6TvNpAFMRbUb0jbtVzXmG2SdK-48NGrzmL3OlN5fBFZTo8qvcxzXD0ciouDV6kbjy4RK3II5j84UErb8iIG9uR22kx_7V5gMDTn60O-cXiBI5tu954g5zHV1UVPa_vYs9E2M/s1600/nabj+HALL+OF+FAME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJlO0_jJ6TvNpAFMRbUb0jbtVzXmG2SdK-48NGrzmL3OlN5fBFZTo8qvcxzXD0ciouDV6kbjy4RK3II5j84UErb8iIG9uR22kx_7V5gMDTn60O-cXiBI5tu954g5zHV1UVPa_vYs9E2M/s320/nabj+HALL+OF+FAME.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote><i><p$1>The NABJ rolled out its ruby rug on Jan 27, 2011 at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, inducting 5 legendary journalists into </p$1>the 2011 Hall of Fame and presenting the Ida B. Wells Award Recipient.</i></blockquote><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><p$1><b>NABJ Hall of Fame Inductees </b></p$1></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><p$1><b></b></p$1><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>& Ida B. Wells Award Recipient </b></span></b></span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span></div><p$1><b><i>Ed Bradley – CBS News ‘60 Minutes’</i></b><br /> <br /> Before his passing inwards 2006, Bradley spent close his entire 39-year career amongst CBS News. At CBS, the homo 1 time described equally "the coolest guy inwards the business” rose to the pinnacle of journalistic achievement. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Merri Dee – WGN-TV Chicago</i></b><br /> <br /> Dee’s 30-year career inwards Chicago broadcasting in addition to her charitable efforts on behalf of children in addition to victims’ rights brand her a standout honoree. <br /> <br /> <b><i>JC Hayward – WUSA-TV Washington</i></b><br /> <br /> Hayward, reporter in addition to anchor of 39 years at Washington, D.C.'s WUSA-TV holds the national tape for a adult woman anchoring the same eve newscast at the same station. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> Robinson is a columnist in addition to old assistant managing editor at The Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary inwards 2009. He won for a alternative of columns on the 2008 presidential campaign, in addition to likewise serves equally political analyst for MSNBC.<br /> <br /> <b><i>Ray Taliaferro – KGO Newstalk 810, San Francisco</i></b><br /> <br /> Ray was the outset dark verbalise demo host on a major marketplace radio station inwards the country. Taliaferro has literally owned the Bay Area's overnight radio listening audience since 1986 when his verbalise demo moved to the 1 to 5 a.m. fourth dimension slot.</p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1><b></b> </p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1><b>IDA B. WELLS AWARD RECIPIENT: </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b></b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUr9KUy7cjJbKpyGkX-_tAFQIuNSRPV9LthulhhAp0GVn9JGxsVhwqp7mkOV_HWUZN28j6u0zsQDYQrmUeDmp12IbzlNIdCkmfrzvI2kxWH-KOjvsF9lk1a115qTNxs25qedFxLS_A7Mc/s1600/Photo+of+Walterene+Swanston%252C+National+Association+for+Black+Journalists+Ida+B.+Wells+Award+Recipient+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUr9KUy7cjJbKpyGkX-_tAFQIuNSRPV9LthulhhAp0GVn9JGxsVhwqp7mkOV_HWUZN28j6u0zsQDYQrmUeDmp12IbzlNIdCkmfrzvI2kxWH-KOjvsF9lk1a115qTNxs25qedFxLS_A7Mc/s200/Photo+of+Walterene+Swanston%252C+National+Association+for+Black+Journalists+Ida+B.+Wells+Award+Recipient+2011.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i>Walterene Swanston – National Public Radio (NPR)</i></b></span></b></div><b> </b><p$1><b><i></i></b><b><i><br /> </i></b> </p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1>The annual Ida B. Wells Award honour highlights the achievement of a media executive who has demonstrated a commitment to diversifying the nation's newsrooms in addition to improving the coverage of people in addition to communities of color. </p$1><p$1>Walterene Swanston is the NABJ's 2011 Ida B. Wells Award Recipient. </p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1>Swanston is a multifariousness consultant in addition to a retired manager of multifariousness administration for National Public Radio. Swanston has a decades-long professional person rails tape equally a champion of media diversity. For to a greater extent than than 25 years, she has worked amongst newspapers, boob tube in addition to radio stations to recruit, promote, develop in addition to retain people of color in addition to women. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Information source: Nabj.org</i></b><br /> <br /> </p$1><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p$1></p$1></div><p$1></p$1></div>

National Association Of Dark Journalists

The NABJ rolled out its ruby rug on Jan 27, 2011 at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, inducting 5 legendary journalists into the 2011 Hall of ...

Sojourner Truth: Slavery Abolitionist As Well As Women's Suffragist

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><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/AVvXsEhgSSZqEc_kheMXap0vCtt4J4LnYM3cn5SAKYo1akKodhXAlK3rrUxLKyE2DjgIbp-a0SjXy-a6ru9IwvsNP3j0JB0jfEKPavpnGL4HLVeiLGwEb40TrQuVibP63fT0sJb4Z52ArdQ5Q_Y/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+Black+History+Heroes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgSSZqEc_kheMXap0vCtt4J4LnYM3cn5SAKYo1akKodhXAlK3rrUxLKyE2DjgIbp-a0SjXy-a6ru9IwvsNP3j0JB0jfEKPavpnGL4HLVeiLGwEb40TrQuVibP63fT0sJb4Z52ArdQ5Q_Y/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+Black+History+Heroes.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Image of Pamphlet Poster of a Sojourner Truth Lecture </em></strong><br /> <strong><em>(aka equally Isabella Baumfree, Isabella Bomefree)</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>(Born: cir. 1797 - Died: Nov 26, 1883)</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The exact appointment of her nativity was non recorded. We only know that inward the twelvemonth 1797, alongside Dutch immigrants settled inward the share at i time known equally Ulster County, New York, an African kid was born on the estate of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. One of 13 children born to Elizabeth in addition to James Baumfree, she was given the name Isabella Baumfree. As the storey goes, this raise gave her no hint of her mission therefore years afterwards she renamed herself Sojourner Truth. Her life was a will to this mission equally a truth-teller.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Early Life of Sojourner Truth alongside the Hardenberg Dutch Settlers</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sojourner Truth's parents, the Baumfrees, were African slaves on the Hardenbergh plantation inward Swartekill, New York. She spoke only Dutch until historic menstruation nine when she was sold from her parents aid to i Englishman named John Neely. The harshness of both her Dutch in addition to English linguistic communication slave-masters would travel told past times Truth inward many of her afterwards anti-slavery speeches across the novel nation. She underwent a number of transfers betwixt slave-owners in addition to suffered what she described equally cruelties that i dare non imagine against a immature African immature lady kid enslaved inward America.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sojourner Truth and Slave Life inward New York</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1815, Truth said she fell inward love with Robert, enslaved on a dissimilar plantation. The human relationship was forbidden past times both slavers. The 2 stole away visits despite the demands that they create no run into each other. Robert's slave-master, aided past times his son, followed Robert on i catch to see Truth. She reported that Robert sustained "bruising in addition to mangling [of] his caput in addition to face" in addition to was dragged away. Truth had a immature lady that she named Diane before long thereafter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">By 1817, Sojourner Truth had been sold to John Dumont of New Paltz, New York. she was forced to hook upwards with an older African named Thomas. They had 4 children: Peter (1822), James (who died young), Elizabeth (1825), in addition to Sophia (1826). Truth said that she continued working for Dumont until she felt she had completed whatever obligation she may accept had to him. </div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXsCLTF8L4RY6bEQXdOIN4l5EkDMC25XM9VJcTaZgSSQ4SqnEGl5uotAZwO74lkjplIqLjT5LA0WCVyZAbFOl-iJL2RA25I29FrAoQoStOHpnWz1Ejk12nNg3DYDzpPQTTRVOOaXkiec/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXsCLTF8L4RY6bEQXdOIN4l5EkDMC25XM9VJcTaZgSSQ4SqnEGl5uotAZwO74lkjplIqLjT5LA0WCVyZAbFOl-iJL2RA25I29FrAoQoStOHpnWz1Ejk12nNg3DYDzpPQTTRVOOaXkiec/s320/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+2.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Photo of Sojourner Truth</strong></div><blockquote>"I did non run off, for I idea that wicked," said Sojourner Truth, describing her leaving with her youngest immature lady Sophia from the Dumont plantation inward New York , "but I walked off, believing that to travel all right." </blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">She before long laid plans to secure her youngest boy Peter who had been loaned past times Dumont to some other slaver who had therefore sold the five-year-old child to slave-owners inward the State of Alabama. With the assist of the anti-slavery Quakers, Truth filed a courtroom petition in the State of New York pleading with the courtroom to grant the provide of her son. There was keen anti-slavery inward New York at the time, as the reason legislation was passed inward <a href="http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm">1827 legally abolishing slavery</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sojourner Truth won in addition to her boy Peter was soon returned to New York.</div><br /> <strong>Sojourner Truth, Free Woman of Color inward America: Abolitionist in addition to Suffragist</strong><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN1dtmBGo7Gq11_HFRI0BAMyWSDcxkT1mwR64bPsdeJvLWDRJtwFCw-jKJbSqgS95Psq7ZCueB7jX9myjuPioHEdabWZpw8X7w6XIws2fZr1IVfWKP24NewHWpx27WpHClL_A65dLhFw/s1600/Image+SojournerTruth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN1dtmBGo7Gq11_HFRI0BAMyWSDcxkT1mwR64bPsdeJvLWDRJtwFCw-jKJbSqgS95Psq7ZCueB7jX9myjuPioHEdabWZpw8X7w6XIws2fZr1IVfWKP24NewHWpx27WpHClL_A65dLhFw/s320/Image+SojournerTruth.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em>Pamphlet Card with Sojourner Truth Photo</em></strong></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">While living inward the abode of Isaac in addition to Maria Van Wagenens, Truth had a life-changing religious experience. She started to speak in populace assemblies. She became known equally a gifted preacher. She joined the Progressive Friends, an organization established past times the Quakers, which pressed forrad the induce of abolishing slavery throughout America. Truth also became active inward the Union's efforts during the Civil War. She helped enlist dark troops. Her grandson James Caldwell served inward the 54th Regiment, Massachusetts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In 1864, she worked alongside freed slaves at a authorities refugee military camp on an isle inward Virginia in addition to was employed past times the National Freedman's Relief Association inward Washington, D.C.," according to Women inward History: Living vignettes of notable women from U.S. history. "In 1863, Harriet Beecher Stowe's article "The Libyan Sibyl" appeared inward the Atlantic Monthly; a romanticized description of Sojourner."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the halt of the Civil War, Truth worked on behalf of the Freedman's Hospital inward Washington through the Freedman's Relief Association.</div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">In 1867, she moved to Battle Creek, Michigan. While unsuccessful inward her efforts, for several years she lobbyed the U.S. federal authorities reason inward the Western states for one-time African slaves. Illness began to cut back her speaking tours. In 1879, she spent a twelvemonth inward Kansas urban gist to assist settling African migrants she called "Exodusters". In add-on to racial in addition to sex equality issues, Truth campaigned against uppercase penalty in addition to called for temperance.</div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXn__k8UT-c8U1TfWfbr_kfzSmR-O287ikYq_xR-In9tZYk-UK_HAsOvm-PBohD9cd7e6IZslwxgm72vZ5l3qOks_si5ETYUvwspssgB02qPPUzb66R9K_s9j_Bt37-Iav74PG9dbWfCM/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXn__k8UT-c8U1TfWfbr_kfzSmR-O287ikYq_xR-In9tZYk-UK_HAsOvm-PBohD9cd7e6IZslwxgm72vZ5l3qOks_si5ETYUvwspssgB02qPPUzb66R9K_s9j_Bt37-Iav74PG9dbWfCM/s320/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em>Image of Sojourner Truth</em></strong></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">On Nov 26, 1883, Sojourner Truth was surrounded past times her identify unit of measurement at her decease bed. She was 86 years old when she died surrounded past times her identify unit of measurement inward Battle Creek, Michigan. She was buried inward Oak Hill Cemetery, adjacent to her grandson's gravesite. More than 200 years later, her legacy equally a truth-keeper continues to ignite the imagination of the novel patch for which she found herself inward service. Soujourner Truth lived during times of keen change. </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/AVvXsEjHoq8VDghigR96ARKeKDSmjQ6W2Bo1MSa5Uq370CrVQR2RBbExLZqeICr0ayIho47HRhetCMF2lPbvc11qbU8L1IGNr8OS2tqXmfMRpMrrDKjgCvsqo-23sZprWa_D1Mviy12ayuwPFTI/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+Statute.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoq8VDghigR96ARKeKDSmjQ6W2Bo1MSa5Uq370CrVQR2RBbExLZqeICr0ayIho47HRhetCMF2lPbvc11qbU8L1IGNr8OS2tqXmfMRpMrrDKjgCvsqo-23sZprWa_D1Mviy12ayuwPFTI/s320/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+Statute.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Image of observers at the Sojourner Truth statute inward </strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Battle Creek, Michigan, USA</strong> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Photo: Marydell/Flickr)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSZqLMVbrSBosCUbcP3GiU5ScH2-s68FMc5LHxXcycLSFo1SDzz3GRxj7qJOZmsL1oixRv5MYr1Zsw5vAhDWGvilDaB8LrGyCmMoDEy8RKZSpDjRIpN8WCuH4-tZFc0kCKZIGXyXiTEI/s1600/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+statute+unveiling+before+First+Lady+Michelle+Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSZqLMVbrSBosCUbcP3GiU5ScH2-s68FMc5LHxXcycLSFo1SDzz3GRxj7qJOZmsL1oixRv5MYr1Zsw5vAhDWGvilDaB8LrGyCmMoDEy8RKZSpDjRIpN8WCuH4-tZFc0kCKZIGXyXiTEI/s320/Photo+of+Sojourner+Truth+statute+unveiling+before+First+Lady+Michelle+Obama.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama applauds on Apr 28, 2009 </span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">at the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth bronze bust inward Emancipation Hall inward Washingtno D.C.</span></em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I promise that Sojourner Truth would travel proud to run into me, a descendant of slaves, serving equally the kickoff lady of the U.S. of America," said Michelle Obama at the Apr 28, 2009 commemorative ceremony unveiling the Sojourner Truth bronze bust by sculptor Artis Lane. "Now many immature boys in addition to girls, similar my ain daughters, volition come upwards to Emancipation Hall in addition to run into the confront of a adult woman who looks similar them." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sojourner Truth's Famous Oration: "Ain't I a Woman?"</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1851, Sojourner Truth gave her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” oral communication earlier the Women's Rights Convention held inward Akron, Ohio. Several ministers were inward attendance. Truth rose from her spot in addition to spoke the next words earlier the audience:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>"Well, children, where in that location is therefore much dissonance in that location must travel something out of kilter. I intend that ‘twixt the negroes of the South in addition to the women at the North, all talking most rights, the white men volition travel inward a ready pretty soon. But what’s all this hither talking about?</em></div><em></em><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em>That human being over in that location says that women demand to travel helped into carriages, in addition to lifted over ditches, in addition to to accept the best identify everywhere. Nobody always helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me whatever best place! And ain’t I a woman?</em></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Look at me! Look at my arm! I accept ploughed in addition to planted, in addition to gathered into barns, in addition to no human being could caput me! And ain’t I a woman? I could run equally much in addition to consume equally much equally a human being – when I could larn it – in addition to deport the lash equally well! And ain’t I a woman? I accept borne xiii children, in addition to seen most all sold off to slavery, in addition to when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?</em> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Then they utter most this affair inward the head; what’s this they telephone telephone it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to create with women’s rights or negroes’ rights? If my loving cup won’t concur but a pint, in addition to yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you lot travel hateful non to permit me accept my petty one-half stair out full?</em></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Then that petty human being inward dark there, he says women can’t accept equally much rights equally men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come upwards from? Where did your Christ come upwards from? From God in addition to a woman! Man had aught to create with Him.</em> </div></blockquote><blockquote><em></em><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><em>If the kickoff adult woman God always made was rigid plenty to turn the globe upside downwards all alone, these women together ought to travel able to turn it back, in addition to larn it correct side upwards again! And at i time they is bespeak to create it, the men meliorate permit them.</em></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Obliged to you lot for hearing me, in addition to at i time old Sojourner ain’t got aught to a greater extent than to say."</em></div></blockquote></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7Q9GzluTeEIb2RYHUqLCZR91FjxqeZTBDC0kIe5Ljtk95o7DnUYX9NuqaY95ZApgx38UHRt3PJ_7sa4VUlr5ePmEpri1j3GFUCs2s09wBOORxxIltxFnjM3lL1XwH5DPkLK6UTscBso/s1600/Photo+of+Oviatt_Building_Entrance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7Q9GzluTeEIb2RYHUqLCZR91FjxqeZTBDC0kIe5Ljtk95o7DnUYX9NuqaY95ZApgx38UHRt3PJ_7sa4VUlr5ePmEpri1j3GFUCs2s09wBOORxxIltxFnjM3lL1XwH5DPkLK6UTscBso/s1600/Photo+of+Oviatt_Building_Entrance.jpg" /></a></div><strong></strong><br /> <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>The 2011 Black History Network Mixer was held on Feb 24, 2011 at the Cicada Club, the historic 1928 fine art deco James Oviatt Building, an architectural pattern jewel inward downtown L.A. (entrance shown). </strong></div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3dhUsTo3MLz-qRsavVMFhMsiXwRqNYIUrUSr39cJ9D58-F62BPj9PIbbWPlJPx7s79onHC_sGh-OrzLIvBUsdZc_Qljxe3l1r6p5EZ0pABdA6CQUIrypgU8tTXhlcUr84l4IHQvclHw/s1600/black+history+network+mixer+in+los+angeles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="91" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3dhUsTo3MLz-qRsavVMFhMsiXwRqNYIUrUSr39cJ9D58-F62BPj9PIbbWPlJPx7s79onHC_sGh-OrzLIvBUsdZc_Qljxe3l1r6p5EZ0pABdA6CQUIrypgU8tTXhlcUr84l4IHQvclHw/s320/black+history+network+mixer+in+los+angeles.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> L.A.'s Black History Network Mixer was the co-sponsored result of the next v organizations: <br /> <br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://www.labmba.org/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>National Black MBA Association, Los Angeles Chapter</strong></span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.langstonbar.org/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>John M. Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles</strong></span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.laul.org/yp/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>Los Angeles Urban League Young Professionals</strong></span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nabsp.com/nabsp/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>National Association of Black Sports Professionals</strong></span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nabainc.org/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>National Association of Black Accountants, Inc.</strong></span></a></li> </ul><br /> During the class of the evening, the mixer drew a huge plow out amid LA.'s dark professionals. Attendees included Langston Bar Association President Gilda Clift Breland, Esq. The Langston Bar Association's 2011 subject nether Breland's leadership is timely described as "Advocating for Citizens of the World." <br /> <br /> <div></div>Linda R. Roseborough, president of the<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">California Association of Black Lawyers</span></strong></a> (CABL), was likewise inward attendance at the mixer. Roseborough spread the discussion regarding CABL's 34th Annual Conference that volition move held Thursday, Apr 28th through Sunday, May 1st, 2011 at the Omni Hotel inward downtown L.A. Many of the attorneys inward attendance were excited that this annual conference of the state's black lawyers will be hosted inward Los Angeles, California. </div>

Black History Network Mixer Inwards Los Angeles

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