A Salute to Black History

Understanding Wisdom And FOREVER Appreciating The Past

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Below are links that will enrich your knowledge of the past, present, selfless contributions made by just a FEW of our MANY great African Americans.  As you read the wealth of information on this page, think about how our world would be today without the selfless contributions and what we have learned from the good and the bad.  Also, recognize the unbending focus and intensity of their efforts despite repeated rejections and unfulfilled expectations.

We must continue to remember and respect our heritage (even thou one might not agree with the actions of some--it is still history) by never saying good-bye to yesterday, for we are still standing on their shoulders—yesterday made our present possible . . .

Click Here for Memorial Program of Bernard Jeffery McCullough - "Bernie Mac"

Click Here for Overview of Life

Other African Americans Gone But Not Forgotten (2009-2010)

Click for Teddy Pendergrass' Obituary

Overview Teddy Pendergrass

Other African Americans Gone But Not Forgotten (2003 - 2008)

Russell Williams II

Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations

  The Blue Baby Syndrome - Vivien Thomas

Black U. S. Marshals

Robert Moore

CEO/Executive Recruiter, Robert Moore Associates

Jack and Christine Hadley

Jack Hadley Black History Museum

How To Teach Black History

Compliments of Pine Mountain School District in California - 5th Graders

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Black Indians

The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses

First Two Black NFL Coaches To Compete At The Super Bowl

Lovie Smith - Chicago Bears

Tony Dungy - Indianapolis Colts

Winner of 2007 Super Bowl

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Ruben Studdard - Singing:  "Flying Without Wings"        Fantasia - Singing "Total Praise" Even Angels     Songs Jennifer Hudson

A Salute to Coretta Scott King - A Virtuous Woman

Coretta Scott King's Obituary

A Salute to Martin Luther King--Stop the Violence

The King's First Grandchild

Yolanda Renee King - Born May 25, 2008

A Salute To Black Gospel

Start At An Early Age -- "Nobody But You Lord"

View Some of the Competition

                                              

Y'Anna Crawley - Season 2	Crystal Aikin - Season 1

CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUMS

International Civil Rights Museum - Greensboro, North Carolina
 

National Civil Rights Museum - Memphis, Tennessee

Alabama Civil Rights Museum - Montgomery, Alabama

Birmingham Civil Rights Museum - Birmingham, Alabama

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum - Savannah, Georgia

    A Salute to President-Elect Barack Obama      

Black Entertainers - A Tribute to Past and Present

World War II African American Veterans

A Salute to Ray Charles

A Salute to the First Black Nurses

Tennessee Historic State Parks

T. O. Fuller State Park   -   Fort Pillow State Park   -   Booker T. Washington State Park

Georgia's Black Revolutionary Patriots

By:  Carole E. Scott

 

Inventors of Yesterday - A Salute of HBCUs   The United Negro College Fund   Inventors I    -    Inventors II    -    Inventors III    -    Inventors IV         National Association for the Advancement of Colored People                   The Negro Motorist Green Book               How To Develop and Protect Your Inventions         Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Inc. "Soul food is part of our tradition, our makeup and our lifestyle; and it's not going to go away.  It just needed a face lift."                     Anthony D. Allen     In 1810 or 1811, Anthony D. Allen, a former slave of the Dougal family, came to the island of O`ahu from Schenectady, New York where he was born in 1774. He became a free man at the age of 24 in 1798 and spent the next twelve years at sea. Allen is on record as owning property in Waikiki in 1811. READ MORE                 The African American on the Titantic            There was a Haitian on the Titantic.  His uncle was President of Haiti.  Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man, a Haitian man, to perish in the Titanic; that's after he saved his wife and kids. Laroche was born in Cap Haitian, Haiti , on May 26, 1889.      The silence about the stranger-than-fiction life story of the Titanic's only Black passenger astonishes noted Titanic historian Judith Geller, author of Titanic: Women and Children First, who said, "It is strange that nowhere in the copious 1912 press descriptions of the ship and the interviews with the survivors was the presence of a Black family among the passengers ever mentioned."      The story of this interracial family was not known until 2000, three years after the movie's release, when the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry and the Titanic Historical Society revealed the information as part of a Titanic exhibit.  Joseph Laroche was born into a powerful family. His uncle, Dessalines M. Cincinnatus Leconte, was the president of Haiti . When Joseph Phillippe Lemercier was fifteen, he left Haiti to study engineering in Beauvais, France. Several years later, he met Juliette Lafargue, the 22-year-old daughter of a local wine seller. The two eventually married..      Despite having an engineering degree, Joseph's skin color left him unable to find employment in France. The Laroches decided to return to Haiti and booked second-class reservations on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg, Joseph loaded his wife and children onto a lifeboat and he went down with the ship. His body was never recovered.  Shortly before Christmas of that year, Juliette Laroche gave birth to their son, Joseph Laroche, Jr.  Juliette never remarried. Read More . . .             EUGENE JACQUES BULLARD   First African American Pilot   Click the Images                     African Americans and World War II       All African American United States Naval Crew During WWII   African American United States Marines During WWII       African American and the United States Army     African American and the United States Air Force       Benjamin O Davis             Tuskegee Airmen

"Tuskegee Airmen Were Not Just Pilots"                Tuskegee Top Gun               Rosenwald School Building Program               Milestones in African American Education   Iron Hill School - One Room School             Honors and Awards     George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. In 1923, he received the Spingarn Medal given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1939, he received the Roosevelt Medal for restoring southern agriculture. On July 14, 1943, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt honored Carver with a national monument dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri preserved as a park, this park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States. How many African Americans won the Roosevelt Medal? George Washington Carver - 1939 Martha Berry - 1929               African American First . . .   More African American First . . .         Albert W. Johnson:  GM's First Black Franchise Owner     Albert Johnson began his career selling cars door to door (out of a briefcase) and then to become General Motors' first African-American franchise owner.             The HBCUs in the United States - Web Sites           Harlem Globetrotters                             The UniverSoul Circus                            The Amos 'N Andy Show   k                                                     Get an Overview                                                  Watch Videos of the Show     The Amos and Andy TV Show was the first all-Black cast TV show.  The show aired on CBS TV network from 1951 to 1953.  The show was the only place on TV where you could see "Black" people in roles other than maids or porters.         Hip Hop Music                       The Black Tennis Foundation     71 Year Old Diva - Ernestine Shepherd! Photos:  Ericka Blount Danois | Special to The Sun                 African American Greek Organizations   FEMALE     MALE               BLACKamerica.com             Tom Joyner Morning Show     The Association for the Study of African American Life and History     Tavis Smiley Talks         African American News             Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)   The Conference is in Birmingham, Alabama - 2010       Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) has continued to be an integral part of the library literature during the thirty-five year history of the organization. As the organization has grown, so too has the amount of literature. The heading “Black caucus” was first indexed in Library Literature in 1970. Listed under that heading were six articles: two on segregation, three on the caucus, and an article about the concern for Black librarians. Today, about one hundred articles can be found within electronic databases and references. The following bibliography is a brief historical overview of what has been written about BCALA since 1970.       Black Shopping Channel       African American Students News         African American Magazines - Ebony and Jet - Present Magazines         and     Past Magazines:  Johnson Publishing  Company has partnered with Google to digitize its magazine archives. If you're a "Jet " and "Ebony" fan from back in the day, just click on  a  desired decade, choose a magazine:   Ebony - Google Book Search Jet - Google Book Search Black World/Negro Digest - Google Book Search         African American Magazine - Essence               African American Magazine - Black Enterprise

Some of The Richest African Americans

 

Oprah Winfrey - Net Worth 2.7 Billion - (Only Billionaire for 2009)
Tiger Woods - $600 Million
Robert Johnson (Once America's First Black Billionaire) - $550 Million
Michael Jordan - $525 Million
Earvin "Magic" Johnson - $500 Million
Sheila Johnson - $400 Million
Don Peebles - $350 Million
Quintin Primo - $300 Million
Ulysses Bridgeman, Jr. - $200 Million
Kenneth Chenault - $125 Million

The Murder of Emmitt Louis Till - Place:  Money, Mississippi

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The Greensboro Four -- Sit In

Little Rock Nine

Black Vintage Films

The United States Military Academy at West Point First Two Black Females

Joy (Dallas) Eicheiman and Priscilla (Walker) Locke

 

The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner

First Totally Black Owned Search Engine

The Sixteenth Street Bombing - Place:  Birmingham, Alabama

Willie Lynch Letter:  The Making Of A Slave

The Rosewood Massacre

The Rosewood Report

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Remembering Rosewood - Part I

Remembering Rosewood - Part II

The Era of Idi Amin

Apollo Theater - Many Entertainers Were Discovered

 

Points Theatre - Empowerment Through Edutainment - The famous historian, Arnold Toynbee, once commented, "When we classify mankind by color, the only primary race that has not made a creative contribution to any civilization is the Black race."  For 15 years and 2,500 performances, "1001 Inventions" has been an unusually funny antidote for this gross misconception.

Find Your Family Roots

Remembering the people important to our lives.

 

Roland L. Freeman - The Group for Cultural Documentation

 

Verizon Foundation - Free Black History Lesson Plans and Other Educational Resources

The Myths, The Facts, The Stereotypes--The Realities

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Quick Links

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Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

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Black History Hotlist

Black History for Kids

Martin Luther King's Six Principles of Nonviolence
 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."

"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

~ BE READY

"When your opportunity comes."

~ BE REAL  

"You will never be a success trying to transcend who you are.  You have to embrace   

yourself, including your Blackness." 

~ BE SMART

"Learn to think critically for yourself."

~ BE A SERVANT

"Your generation, in many respects has it all twisted, it ain't about the ice and the bling-bling, it's about being a servant.  Cornel West put it this way; you can't lead the people if you don't love the people.  And you can't save the people if you don't serve the people."

~ BE HUMBLE

"Because the toes you step on today may be connected to the behind you have to kiss tomorrow."

Famous Quotes

 MADAME C. J. WALKER -- "I had to make my own living and my own opportunity--Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them."

DR. CHARLES H. EPPS, JR.  (Howard University)

“I don’t consider myself brilliant, but I learned that I could work as hard as anybody to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I was willing to go without the latest jacket, sneakers or whatever. It is more important TO GET A GOOD EDUCATION.”

MUHAMMAD ALI

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compas-sionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these."

ALICE WALKER

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON  "One cannot hold another down in the ditch without staying down in the ditch with him."

THURGOOD MARSHALL

"A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks."

More African American Quotes

African Americans Entertainers . . .

Aaliyah

Al Green

Jeffrey Osborne

Ashford and Simpson

Fred Hammond

Wilson Pickett

Yolanda Adams

Steve Harvey

The Platters

Louis Armstrong

Isaac Hayes

Leontyne Price

Pearl Bailey

Jimi Hendrix

Lou Rawls

Anita Baker

Z. Z. Hill

Otis Redding

Bar-Kays

Billie Holliday

Minnie Ripperton

Be Be Winans

Lena Horne

Marvin Sapp

Black Gospels

Cissy Houston

Shaq

Bobby Blue Bland

Whitney Houston

Sinbad

James Brown

The Isley Brothers

Smokey Robinson

Shirley Caesar

Mahalia Jackson

Micah Stampley

Kurt Carr

Michael Jackson 

The Staples Singers

Ray Charles

The Jackson 5

Johnny Taylor

Ce Ce Winans

Etta James

KoKo Taylor

Chubby Checker

Alicia Keys

Temptations

The Clark Sisters

Chaka Khan

Carolyn Traylor

Cotton Club

B. B. King

Chris Tucker

Natalie Cole

Gladys Knight

Tina Turner

Nat King Cole 

Evelyn "Champagne" King

Luther Vandross  

Commodores

Beyonce' Knowles

Sarah Vaughan

Sam Cooke

Pattie LaBelle

Hezekiah Walker

Andrae Crouch

Queen Latifah

Dionne Warrick

Sammy Davis Jr.

Gerald Levert

Ethel Waters

Fats Domino

Left Eye Lopes

The Whispers

Earth, Wind, and Fire

Malaco Records

Barry White

Ebonys

Hattie McDaniels

The Williams Brothers

Duke Ellington

Mary Mary

Flip Wilson

Missy Elliott

Mo'Nique

Jackie Wilson

Aretha Franklin

Dorothy Moore

Vickie Winans

Kirk Franklin

Motown

Stevie Wonder

Marvin Gaye

Smokie Norful

Alfre Woodard

Larry Graham

The Ojays

Timothy Wright

ETC . . .