Celebrate African American History Month

[alan1]

add your favorite African American accomplishments. I'll start:

I'll start w/ our African American President's address:

"snip"

By The President of The United States of America

A Proclamation

In America, we share a dream that lies at the heart of our founding: that no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter how modest your beginnings or the circumstances of your birth, you can make it if you try. Yet, for many and for much of our Nation's history, that dream has gone unfulfilled. For African Americans, it was a dream denied until 150 years ago, when a great emancipator called for the end of slavery. It was a dream deferred less than 50 years ago, when a preacher spoke of justice and brotherhood from Lincoln's memorial. This dream of equality and fairness has never come easily -- but it has always been sustained by the belief that in America, change is possible.

more at: Presidential Proclamation: National African American History Month, 2013 | The White House

And what "emancipator was that?
Was it President Lincoln? The man that only "emancipated" black slaves in the Confederate states while leaving all other blacks enslaved in non-confederate states to continue their slavery?

 

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add your favorite African American accomplishments. I'll start:

I'll start w/ our African American President's address:

"snip"

By The President of The United States of America

A Proclamation

In America, we share a dream that lies at the heart of our founding: that no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter how modest your beginnings or the circumstances of your birth, you can make it if you try. Yet, for many and for much of our Nation's history, that dream has gone unfulfilled. For African Americans, it was a dream denied until 150 years ago, when a great emancipator called for the end of slavery. It was a dream deferred less than 50 years ago, when a preacher spoke of justice and brotherhood from Lincoln's memorial. This dream of equality and fairness has never come easily -- but it has always been sustained by the belief that in America, change is possible.

more at: Presidential Proclamation: National African American History Month, 2013 | The White House

And what "emancipator was that?
Was it President Lincoln? The man that only "emancipated" black slaves in the Confederate states while leaving all other blacks enslaved in non-confederate states to continue their slavery?

who helped smash the rebellion & viola: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[alan1]

add your favorite African American accomplishments. I'll start:

I'll start w/ our African American President's address:

"snip"


more at: Presidential Proclamation: National African American History Month, 2013 | The White House

And what "emancipator was that?
Was it President Lincoln? The man that only "emancipated" black slaves in the Confederate states while leaving all other blacks enslaved in non-confederate states to continue their slavery?

who helped smash the rebellion & viola: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just pointing out that Mr Obama doesn't know history very well.

 

[Samson]

add your favorite African American accomplishments.

Peanut Butter.


Ok is this going to eventually increase African Americans' ACT scores?

 

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one of my heroes. I read his biography last year

Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818– February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.

Thats all I'm going to post today because its Black History Month ALL month.

 

[alan1]

Thats all I'm going to post today because its Black History Month ALL month.

It is the shortest month of the year.

 

[AmyNation]

Frederick M. Jones, because I would melt without my AC

 

[DStar777]

yeah cant let the regular Joe make money from the deal huh?

Who is "regular Joe"??.......

I think she means Ave Joe

Was he a slave holder?


Seriously! If Blacks want to be treated equally, they probably should act equal. Raise your kids with 2 parents. Stay away from drugs and crime. Get an education.

You sound like Bill Cosby. (Sarcasm on) What an uncle Tom (sarcasm off).

 

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heres some programming : Did you know? Black History Month edition! | HLNtv.com

 

[aplcr0331]

Frederick M. Jones, because I would melt without my AC

Actually he did not invent A/C that was done many years earlier by Dr. Willis Carrier. Carrier built the first machine to control both the temperature and humidity of indoor air.

Dr. Carrier actually received the first of many patents in 1906 (US patent #808897, for the “Apparatus for Treating Air” if you'd like to look it up for yourself).

Dr. Carrier also published the formulae that became the scientific basis for air conditioning design back in 1911, and four years later formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation to develop and manufacture AC systems.

 

[AmyNation]

Frederick M. Jones, because I would melt without my AC

Actually he did not invent A/C that was done many years earlier by Dr. Willis Carrier. Carrier built the first machine to control both the temperature and humidity of indoor air.

Dr. Carrier actually received the first of many patents in 1906 (US patent #808897, for the “Apparatus for Treating Air” if you'd like to look it up for yourself).

Dr. Carrier also published the formulae that became the scientific basis for air conditioning design back in 1911, and four years later formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation to develop and manufacture AC systems.

^^ true story.

Federick made many improvements on refrigeration, but his focus was adding cooling to trucks to preserve food.

 

[aplcr0331]

^^ true story.

Federick made many improvements on refrigeration, but his focus was adding cooling to trucks to preserve food.

I did not know about that, that's pretty awesome.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Thats all I'm going to post today because its Black History Month ALL month.

It is the shortest month of the year.

Do you suppose Racist Whites would suck up to Black people in February just so they could ignore them for the rest of the year?

 

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Thats all I'm going to post today because its Black History Month ALL month.

It is the shortest month of the year.

Do you suppose Racist Whites would suck up to Black people in February just so they could ignore them for the rest of the year?

^ trolling a history thread?

 

[Esmeralda]

I have long admired the works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, two of Amerca's best and most important writers.

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

 

[aplcr0331]

I have long admired the works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, two of Amerca's best and most important writers.

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

Do you know much about the conflict between Wright and Baldwin? They could not find a common enemy?

 

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good resource: Honoring Black History Month: Great Accomplishments by African Americans - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

 

[DStar777]

With baseball season approaching, I thought I would give a nod to a forgotten figure in the history of sports integration: Larry Doby. He and Satchel Paige were the first African Americans to win a World Series (1948 Cleveland Indians)

 

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President Barack Obama watches First Lady Michelle Obama dance with 106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin in the Blue Room of the White House prior to a reception celebrating African American History Month, Feb. 18, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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