Black History Month!

[Mr. Moto]

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The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by black Americans and other peoples of African descent. Known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The event inspired schools and communities nationwide to organize local celebrations, establish history clubs and host performances and lectures.

In the decades the followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses. President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history."

Since then, every American president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme. The 2012 theme pays tribute to the ways in which black women have shaped the United States and its history...

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history-month

[Ambrosio Spinola]

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History!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Moto]

Wonder which dentist did those fillings?

[Mr. Moto]

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Robert Sterling Wilson, "The Black Fuhrer of Harlem"

...Robert was a colored man, seventy-three years old. Robert was Robert Sterling Wilson, erstwhile jailbird, Japanese agent, and "Black Fuehrer of Harlem"...

I opened the door, and outside stood Jones' chauffeur, a wrinkled old colored man with malevolent yellow eyes. He wore a black uniform with
white piping, a Sam Browne belt, a nickel-plated whistle, a Luftwaffe hat without insignia, and black leather puttees.

There was no Uncle Tom in this cotton-haired old colored man. He walked in arthritically, but his thumbs were hooked into his Sam Browne belt, his chin was thrust out at us, and he kept his hat on.

"Everything all right up here?" he said to Jones. "You was up here so long."
"Not quite," said Jones. "August Krapptauer died."

The Black Fuehrer of Harlem took the news in stride. "All dying, all dying," he said. "Who's gonna pick up the torch when everybody's dead?"

"I just asked the same question myself," said Jones. He introduced me to Robert.

Robert didn't shake hands. "I heard about you," he said, "but I ain't never listened to you."

"Well" I said, "you can't please all the people all of the time."
"We was on opposite sides," said Robert.

"I see," I said. I didn't know anything about him, was agreeable to his belonging to any side that suited him.

"I was on the colored folks' side," he said. "I was with the Japanese."

"Uh-huh," I said.

"We needed you, and you needed us" he said, speaking of the alliance between Germany and Japan in the Second World War. "Only there was a lot of things we couldn't what you'd call agree about"

"I guess that's so," I said.

"I mean I heard you say you don't think the colored people was so good," said Robert.

"Now, now," said Jones soothingly. "What useful purpose does it serve for us to squabble among ourselves? The thing to do is to pull together."

"I just want to tell him what I tell you," said Robert. "I tell this Reverend gentleman here the same thing every morning, the same thing I tell you now, I give him his hot cereal for breakfast, and then I tell him: The colored people are gonna rise up in righteous wrath, and they're gonna take over the world. White folks gonna finally lose!'"

"All right, Robert," said Jones patiently.

"The colored people gonna have hydrogen bombs all their own," he said. "They working on it right now. Pretty soon gonna be Japan's turn to drop one. The rest of the colored folks gonna give them the honor of dropping the first one."

"Where they going to drop it?" I said.

"China, most likely," he said.

"On other colored people?" I said.

He looked at me pityingly. "Who ever told you a Chinaman was a colored man?" he said.

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[Mr. Moto]

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The Warner Brothers' rambunctious and urbanized retelling of the classic yarn we know best from the Grimm Brothers and Walt Disney version...

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Marcus Garvey
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Nat Turner
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[Mr. Moto]

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What Color Was Hannibal?


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The true face of Hannibal. This well-preserved coin, circa 208-207 BC, and dated by some at 217 BC., was found in the Chiana (Clanis) valley. This coin was in circulation in the vicinity of Lake Trasimeno and in the Chiana Valley.


Some individuals have thrown aside all available evidence and have incoherently shouted themselves hoarse by claiming that Hannibal who nearly destroyed Rome belonged to the ‘great White race.’

Whites have been in North Africa for centuries but they are not indigenous to that area. They were merely migrants and invaders, not to mention the White slave trade that brought many Whites to that area. The presence of different races in North Africa has been mentioned by ancient writers like Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus. They included Ethiopians or Blacks.

Hannibal has been variously called a Canaanite or Phoenician. The Canaanites were descendants of Ham or Hamites. ‘Hamite’ was a term once used widely by Europeans to denote members of the Black race. ‘Phoenician’ was another term used to describe these Blacks.

The original dwelling place of the Phoenicians was not in the Middle East but more likely in East Africa. According to Herodotus (see The Histories) they lived on the shores of the Eritrean Sea. This area is widely disputed today, but apparently it was located on the shores of East Africa.

The ancient Near East was a melting pot just like modern America. Different races could be found there, but the original race was a Black one. The Elamites, for instance, were Blacks. Later on it was possible to find not only Black Phoenicians, but White and mixed Phoenicians as well.

Carthage on the North African coast was a Phoenician colony. A reading of history makes it clear that many migrants including White Greeks settled in that area and beyond. Thus just like South Africa, it was possible to find different races there, known as Carthaginians.

The clearest evidence of Hannibal being Black is the coin found in the Valley of the Clanis in Italy, not far from where he defeated the Romans at the Battle of Lake Trasimeno. It is believed to have been minted by Hannibal after the battle. The date of the coin corresponds to the era of Hannibal’s early battles with the Romans.

According to White historians/scholars the coin, representing an elephant on one side and a Black man on the other, is not Hannibal but a mere elephant driver, never mind that the various portraits depicting a White Hannibal are those of other individuals.

The idea that the Black man was a mere elephant driver is pure rubbish since Carthaginians often minted coins to portray important personalities or deities. Moreover the words of Polybius are very telling. According to him before the Battle of Trasimeno, Hannibal had lost all his elephants with the exception of one, which he rode.

Thus it is Hannibal and no one else, portrayed in the ancient coin found in the valley of the Clanis in Italy. Indeed, a number of such coins exist.

More detailed information can be found in the ebook: What Color Was Hannibal?

[Felix the Cat]

Well he was a Phoenician, a semite. He may have had brown skin it's unlikely he looked like a negro.

Did the Romans ever refer to the colour of the Carthaginians in their writings? If there were significant racial differences between the Romans and Carthaginians you would expect them to have mentioned it somewhere.

[Felix the Cat]

What's notable about that coin isn't the race of the subject but his age. It's clearly an image of a boy or young man. I assume it was minted to pay Hannibal's soldiers and/or the local Italian population. Even if he was Black, it's unlikely that Hannibal would have approved such a portrayal of himself since it would have undermined respect for him among his soldiers and neutral civilians.

Hannibal's army was a multinational force which almost certainly did include sub-saharan Africans, alongside various tribes of Greeks, Celts, Italians, Berbers and others. This coin was probably of one of these soldiers.

[Mr. Moto]

Ha! Next thing we know you'll be denying Cleopatra's essential Blackness, too...

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[Mr. Moto]

The courtly Bojangles Robinson:

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Fred Astaire's tribute:

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Robinson's statue in Richmond, Va.

[Mr. Moto]

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[Mr. Moto]

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George Crum, Inventor of the Potato Chip

The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum. Crum was a Native American/African American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. French fries were popular at the restaurant and one day a diner complained that the fries were too thick. Although Crum made a thinner batch, the customer was still unsatisfied. Crum finally made fries that were too thin to eat with a fork, hoping to annoy the extremely fussy customer. The customer, surprisingly enough, was happy - and potato chips were invented!


EnchantedLearning.com's
Great African-Americans Quiz Name:

1. What is the name of the great civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968? __________________________________

2. What is the name of the first African-American who served on the US Supreme Court? __________________________________

3. What is the name of the woman who helped hundreds of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad? __________________________________

4. What is the name of the Haitian-French pioneer and trader who founded the settlement that would later become Chicago? __________________________________

5. What is the name of the scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the South? __________________________________

6. What is the name of the scientist who developed the idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives? __________________________________

7. What is the name of the explorer and colleague of Robert E. Peary who was in the first group of people to visit the North Pole? __________________________________

8. What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama? __________________________________

9. What is the name of the first African-American woman to go into space? __________________________________

10. What is the name of the first African-American to play major league baseball? __________________________________

11. What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a city-wide bus boycott? This eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional. __________________________________

12. What is the name of the African-American athlete who won many medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games? __________________________________

13. What is the name of the inventor whose high-quality industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"? __________________________________

14. What is the name of the first African-American woman to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman from the deep South? __________________________________

15. What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom and lost, in a major Supreme Court case before the Civil War? __________________________________



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EnchantedLearning.com's
Great African-Americans Quiz Name:

1. What is the name of the great civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968? _Mr. Bo Jangles_________________________________

2. What is the name of the first African-American who served on the US Supreme Court? ____Stepan Fetchit______________________________

3. What is the name of the woman who helped hundreds of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad? ______Oprah Winfrey____________________________

4. What is the name of the Haitian-French pioneer and trader who founded the settlement that would later become Chicago? _Armistad Howlin' Wolf Lafayette_________________________________

5. What is the name of the scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the South? ____Jimmy Carter______________________________

6. What is the name of the scientist who developed the idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives? ___Count Blackula_______________________________

7. What is the name of the explorer and colleague of Robert E. Peary who was in the first group of people to visit the North Pole? _Ice Cube_________________________________

8. What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama? _Blind Melon Chitlins_________________________________

9. What is the name of the first African-American woman to go into space? _Aunt Jamima_________________________________

10. What is the name of the first African-American to play major league baseball? _Felix Catfish Fiddlegrabber_________________________________

11. What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a city-wide bus boycott? This eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional. _Madame Bovary_________________________________

12. What is the name of the African-American athlete who won many medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games? _Lightning Chicken Legs Sanders_________________________________

13. What is the name of the inventor whose high-quality industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"? _Bo Didley Hatfield_________________________________

14. What is the name of the first African-American woman to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman from the deep South? __Butterfly McQueen________________________________

15. What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom and lost, in a major Supreme Court case before the Civil War? __Class Action Jackson________________________________

[Mr. Moto]

You has nailed dem, Ah mus' say! Hyeagh, hyeagh, hyeagh...'tsee...

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[Ambrosio Spinola]

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[Keen]

I celebrated black history month by eating lunch at KFC today!