Black history..what do you know about it?
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why are sctions like these so neglected...\nDID YOU KNOW... that an African American man named Lewis Latimer who worked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell drew up the plans for Bell's first telephone?\nIf you did, you are probably among the fortunate few who possess such knowledge. It is a fact that has not been well publicized. There are countless inventions by African Americans and they cover everything from food processing to electrical technology. The inventions by African Americans point out the contributions that African Americans have made to the comfort and advancement of mankind. The following are some inventions by African Americans.\nAmerica's Hi-Tech "Invisible Man"\n\nPatricia E. Bath was the inventor of the laser eye surgery technique now widely used. In fact, she is the only African American woman doctor to ever receive a medical patent.\n\nFrederick Jones invented the air conditioner unit and the automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.\n\nJ.W. Smith invented the lawn sprinkler.\n\nSarah Boone invented the ironing board.\n\nJan Matzeliger invented the shoe-lasting machine (for attaching \nsoles on shoes in Lynn, Mass. His invention revolutionized the shoe industry.\n\nLydia Newman invented the hair brush.\n\nL.P. Ray invented the dust mop.\n\nThomas W. Stewart invented the mop.\n\nJohn Love invented the pencil sharpener.\n\nLee Burridge invented the typewriter.\n\nJohn Burr invented the lawnmower.\n\nGarrett Morgan invented the traffic light.\n\nJohn Standard took out a patent on an improved refrigerating device... the refrigerator.\n\nAlice Parker invented the heating furnace.\n\nAlexander Miles invented major improvements to the elevator.\n\nDr. Charles Drew invented a way to store blood and then created the first blood bank.\n\nM.A. Cherry invented the tricycle.\n\nMajor Robert H. Lawrence was the first African American astronaut chosen \nto make a journey to the moon. He had a doctoral degree in Chemistry \nand would have made one of the first lunar trips, but he died in the crash \nof an Air Force F-104 jet at Edwards Air Force Base, CA in 1968.\nErnest E. Just was the first biologist to receive the Springarn Medal. He received distinction in his field through his research on egg fertilization and the functioning of cells.\n\nHarold D. West was the first person to synthesize the amino acid threonine in the laboratory.\n\nDr. William Hinton devised a test to determine syphilis.\n\nAndrew Bryan was the first African American pastor, ordained in 1788.\n\nConstance B. Motley was the first African American female appointed as a Federal Judge in 1966.\n\nBarbara Watson Federal was the first African American and first female to serve as Asst. Secretary of State.\nShe held her post in 1974.\n\nBernice Gaines Hughes was the first African American female to obtain the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Armed Forces.\n\nAlonzo Pietro (known as "il Negro") was one of Columbus' navigators on his first voyage to America in 1492.\n\nalso look into:\n\nMore Inventors\n\n1st Lt Stephen Swails \nA. Philip Randolph\nAdam Clayton  Powell Jr.\nAhmed Baba\nAhmos\nAlaine Locke\nAlexander Dumas\nAlexander Pushkin\nArthur A. Schomburg\nBenjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.\nBishop Richard Allen\nBlack Reconstruction Congress\nCapt. Erwin B. Lawrence\nCarol Mosley\nCharles Clinton Spaulding\nClarence Harris\nCleopatra\nColin L. Powell\nColonel Charles A. Young\nColonel Guion Bluford\nDaniel Hale Williams\nDr. Benjamin S. Carson\nDr. Carter G. Woodson\nDr. George R. Carruthers\nDr. Katherine G. Johnson\nDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\nDr. W. E. B. Dubois\nDuke Ellington\nElijah McCoy\nEthel Waters\nFanny M. Coppin\nFrancois Louveture\nFredrick Douglas\nGranville T. Woods\nGwendolyn Brooks\nHarriet R. Tubman\nIda B. Wells\nIMHOTEP\nJackie Robinson\nJames Baldwin\nJames Forten\nJames Weldon Johnson\nJesse Owens\nJohn B. Russwurm\nJohn H. Johnson\nJohn Henry Lawson\nJoseph Barrow Louis\nJosep
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You are one of the few who are outspoken about this history which is awful for sure. But I think a lot of black and white women aren't knowledgeable or aware of it, so then what would cause the perceived hatred between them? Personally I haven't seen it, but I live in a small northern town. My guess would be that now that black people are finally getting educations and rising above the circumstances set against them from their history here in US that there seems to be a desire in black men to hunt out white women which can understandably aggravate black women who want to preserve something about their culture apart from the ecclectic mix of cultures that we enjoy here in the US.
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Here's a better question? Why is there a black histoy month?  Why not just study it with the rest of history for the whole year? Or let's give everyone else a history month too and not discuss history outside of those monthes.\n\nAlso, no one mentionedthis but it's a well known fact that Lincoln did freed slaves as a last resort.  It's like like the guy did it willingly, he did it beacuse he needed more men in the army and slaves are either going to desert, attack owners, or just have no morale otherwise, so he freed them.  Done deal.
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Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in the month of February. Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week in 1926 because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Later on in 1976, as the nation reached its bicentennial, the week was expanded into an entire month. However, February has much more than Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance in black American history. For example:\n\nFebruary 23, 1868: W.E.B. DuBois, important civil rights leader and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born. \nFebruary 3, 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. \nFebruary 25, 1870: The first black U.S. Senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, took his oath of office. \nFebruary 12, 1909: The NAACP was founded by a group of concerned black, jewish and white citizens in New York City. \nFebruary 1, 1960: In what would become a civil-rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, North Carolina, college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. \nFebruary 21, 1965: Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims. \nHistory books had barely started covering black history when the tradition of Black History Month was started. At that point, most representation of blacks in history books was only in reference to the low social position they held, with the exception of George Washington Carver. Black History Month can also be referred to as African-American History Month, or African Heritage Month.\n\nIn the United Kingdom (UK), Black History Month is celebrated in the month of October. The official guide to Black History Month in the UK[1] is published by Sugar Media, Ltd., who produce 100,000 copies nationwide.
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I think others may have taken a different inference from your question as if you asked "SHOULD we have black history month?" and that's not what you asked.\n\nI'm a caucasian american and I guess it's always felt funny to me that there was a need for a black history month. Why wasn't Black history included with the rest of world history? I mean now that the seperation of the races had become an antiquated notion, though still regionally practiced, couldn't we have more flushed out history books, one's that dealt with the developing history of all races?\n\nOkay well that hasn't happened, except more recent history does include more people of color. And therefore to cover the history that hasn't been covered, they add this special month of learning about things we may not learn at home or in another course at school. I for one am glad for the experience.\n\nI really couldn't say how it makes anyone else feel.\n\nThough I will say in a strange way sometimes it seems to emphasize the continued seperation between the races. We are all one humanity and the seperation is really idiotic, still it lingers. Is part of the problem that making a point of being proud of your skin color (no matter which group is doing it), tends to highlight the superficial differences between us.\nI think it would be better if the focus was on cultural history instead of skin color history.
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Yes i do know him, but all to well. He was the one who came up with the idea of how to control blacks. This is what is meant by black following that old slave masters plan. People say that blacks should forget the past and move on. Black have move on, but they still follow his plan, by forgetting the past.\n\nHis plan was genius that the only reason they could control them for so long. His plan was to control them mentally, by cause them to enslave each other. If blacks knew this they would stop the habit that are hurting them. just because they know they are following the slave masters plan.
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dear kdjags,\n\nif you are referring to the following article:\n\n"Memory: Luba art and the making of history" by Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F Roberts.\n\nYes it begins at page 22 and runs till page 35 (a total of 14 pages) in the Winter Issue of African Arts volume 29, 1996.\n\nThe 9c and 9 bw behing refers to photographs, apparently this article comes with 9 color and 9 black and white photographs.
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The thing is that black people started the hip hop/urban culture you are talking about, so that's why people say they act black.  The term I hear a lot is "wigger", that term has been around for years and years.  I know it sounds offensive to some, I am just stating the term and I don't mean anything derogatory by it.
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http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/94/9403/woodson.html\n\nAlrutheus Ambush Taylor. The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia. (Lancaster: Lancaster Press, Inc.), 1926\n\nAA Taylor, Fisk University Educator, Harvard Scholar, Author\n\nBetween 1929 and 1941, however, a Tennessee study from the black perspective was researched and published by Fisk University's dean and historian, Alrutheus Ambush Taylor. He and other local black historians came under the influence of Carter G. Woodson, who spoke in Nashville on several occasions. Taylor titled his study, The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880 (1941). Taylor's book not only complemented the one by Patterson, but the study went beyond slavery and covered Reconstruction history and various aspects of black life, including business and politics. Taylor's classic was published and distributed by The Associated Publishers, an affiliate of the ASNLH. Also as a result of ASNLH's influence, Professor Merle R. Eppse of Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College published his book, The Negro, Too, in American History (1938). \nSource: http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/document.htm\n\n\n"http://www.thenorthstarnetwork.com/news/blackhistory/181608-1.html"\nAlrutheus Ambush Taylor was Born in Washington, DC on This date in 1891.\nHe received his undergraduate degree from The University of Michigan and a master’s ...\n Source: Google\n\n1893 - Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, teacher and historian, is born. He will become Fisk University's Dean. He and other local African American historians will come under the influence of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who spoke in Nashville on several occasions. In 1941, Taylor will publish a Tennessee study from the African American perspective. Taylor titled his study, "The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880." Taylor's book will go beyond slavery and cover Reconstruction history and various aspects of African American life, including business and politics. \nSource:http://www.kellyken.com/nov02.htm
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but blacks don't know where they came from in Africa and have no culture from there or language from there not even a recipe from there so how could they begin to know names that had meaning ?all the blacks here know is what the whites have taught them.that's why you use to hear names like Jefferson and Lincoln and what ever .These newer names that some have adopted are so different ,but you usually can tell if the person wearing the name is black.Although some say these names are a hold back and they may be,I understand the need   the people have to have something their own.That's why Hip-Hop and music is so important to them because they want to feel as if they are a part of some thing their own.I like my name and I can't think of a more Euro name than Regina,but hey my parents were here and all they knew of Africa was not enough to give me any thing else.
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Why can't we make the "N" word powerless for our generation and from now on. It's been a long time now since the slave days.  Let take the hurt out of it, after all the origin of the word is the spanish word for black.
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http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance\n\nThese will probably tell you everything.
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Someone have to teach them. Since you really want to know I will tell you from the Blacks perspective. Believe me when I tell you rather you believe it or not, but if we don't tell them about their past will whites? Do you honest believe whites will teach them about the real history. Will whites say that Blacks were slaves and oppress for over 400 years,No. White America will say "African sold other Africans into slavery" White America will blame every single thing America has done against them on everyone in the World, except America(Their people). But have too much pride to say yeah it was our ancestors that kill over 40 million of your people and Lynch tens of thousands. They won't admit they had them mark like cattle, burned alive, shoot at them, sent dogs to bit them, rape them. No, what do they say "if only the Africans did not sell them" as if the Africans knew what was going on over here. They won't say that Blacks had their nationality took and religion, culture, customs and their way of life. They won't admit everything this nation has come from the foundation of slavery. \n\nThat's why we teach our kids this is because whites try to forget it to make 400 year old crime go unpunished. Especially when this nation still like to benefit from the millions that died in vain. I would say most blacks will not even care about it, if America man up to what it did and stop blaming 400 years of oppression on the "African" and todays Blacks. Whites say some blacks are poor because they blame things on whites and are to lazy to work, untrue. As I said Just 40 years ago blacks were marching to end segregation. So in other words most blacks have to start over they did not have nothing because they been rob so long. They do not have college funds for their kids, can't buy their kids cars because they inheritaged 400 years of nothing which in most cases devolops a spirit of poverty. Which is why other group come here and be successful over black because lots of black have a poor man spirit which is hard to break, even hard when they get older. Whites will not say that the poor blacks are not poor because they are lazy but because all their centuries of free labour went into our(Whites) hands. If your white then how many people you know had your parents help you in life, how many went to nice schools, someone to pay for your college, etc. Then compare it to blacks back in the 50's, and see that they had nothing and were trying to vote. Notice the difference, whites never had it as bad, just being white you have spiecal treatment and I'm talking about the 50's.\n\nIt not a reason to keep blacks back, thats what they won't us to think to make all that died for the benefit of America to go in vain. So they can continue to enjoy a 400 advantage.
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You have made so many sweeping, unsupported statements that it's hard to know where to start.  I won't give you the full-on lecture because I suppose I think you're unlikely to be edified by it.  Suffice it to say that in my 21 years of education, I studied considerably more white history, white case studies, stories about white people, etc.  It never occurred to me that I should be studying less of that stuff.  It did occur to me that I would benefit from more materials regarding people of color.  Since those things weren't readily offered in most of the classrooms in which I sat, I availed myself of the many books available in the libraries and the bookstores and augmented my own education with the portion I was afraid I was missing.  Did it ever occur to you to do something similar?  Instead of learning less history that touches on black subjects, maybe the cure for your ills is to read more offline books and round out your own education.  Just a thought from someone with "black skin pigmentation."\n\nBy the way, I would love to hear you name even 10 black television celebrities in support of your preposterous claim that we "are now dominant on TV."  I'll bet you can't do it without stretching.
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Yes they are and I can prove it, The whole bible prophecies the history of blacks, blacks have always seen the similarities but never made the connection. Didn't you know blacks during the slave trade was know by Muslims as "Yahoodee" meaning tribe of Israel? Did you know at of all the people on the face of the Earth who claim to be Hebrews would envy the Ashanti's. The name mean people for the land of Ashan in Judah? Did you it was a place during the slave trade call the "Land of Judah" by the french? Did you ever hear of the Falasha's or beta Israel, Ibo's, Lemba, Yoruba, Fanti, etc. Were call Israelites by Muslims over 1000 years ago? Look it up the Hebrew/Jewish customs in Africa, you will find lots of info. Especially in on the west coast of Africa.
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What about blacks that dwell on Jesus \n\nAnd whites that dwell on slavery?
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Black history will never be over, the month has ended but we are creating our history right now, everything you do will be part of black history so represent yourself and your culture well.