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Black History Appreciation!!!
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Philippa Schuyler was a pianist child prodigy, born in the 1930’s. She composed a famous piece called “Harlem’s Mozart: The Shirley Temple of American Negroes.” Born to a black journalist and a white daughter of a Texas ranger, (who had at one time, worked as a bathing beauty for a local slave owner), Philippa’s parents were determined to use their daughter as a poster child for integration. Her mother, Josephine Cogdell, raised her daughter on raw meat, vegetables and cod liver oil, believing that it would make her more of a genius. Her mother even wrote publicly about her experience in being with a black man in “The Messenger” publication.
Philippa’s parents saw promise in her only four weeks after she was born, when she began to crawl. She was reading and writing by age two. By the time she was four years old, she was playing her own piano compositions on the local radio station. With an IQ of 180 at seven, Philippa graduated from elementary school at ten years old. At the young age of 13, she had written 100 music compositions for orchestra. Her first piece, “Manhattan Nocturne”, was performed by the New York Philharmonic in 1944. Cogdell was known to issue tough love to her daughter, demanding perfection with little affection.
Though she performed countless concerts overseas as an adolescent, Philippa was unhappy with her childhood. She had even developed different personas overseas, passing for women of different races, depending on the situation. Feeling as if her life was an experiment by her parents, she would play until she reached her thirties, then discovered journalism and followed in her father’s footsteps. However, she would pass herself off as Spanish to escape her parents’ values.
In 1962, Schulyer released “Who Killed the Congo?”, addressing the independence of Zaire. A year later, she released “Jungle Saints” about Catholic missionaries.
Philippa Schuyler traveled to Vietnam during the war in 1967 as a war correspondent. She also worked as a Catholic lay worker, ferrying orphans to safety from Hue to Danang. During a helicopter mission to evacuate the orphans, her helicopter crashed into the sea. Even though she survived the crash, she couldn’t swim and drowned. It was later discovered that the accident was the fault of the pilot and could’ve been avoided.
Philippa Schuyler died on May 9, 1967 at age 35. Prior to her passing, she had openly addressed her issues with her mother’s choice of upbringing in a written letter, accusing her of imposing impossible expectations upon her daughter. In 1969, Jody Cogdell Schuyler committed suicide.
There has been a discussion about a biopic of Schulyer’s life. The family papers are kept at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in a collection entitled “Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler.”
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Yeah for the most part, I'm going to focus more on Black Americans in this thread.
Shout out to the fathers of Black history:
George Washington Williams
L.D. Reddikk
Carter G. Woodson
W.E.B. Du Bois
If you don't know these men or read their work, get on it now :ugongetthiswork:
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Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920. Sportswriter Walter Camp ranked Pollard as "one of the greatest runners these eyes have ever seen."
Fritz Pollard, an All-America halfback from Brown University was a pro football pioneer in more ways than one. The 5-9, 165-pound back, who led Brown to the Rose Bowl in 1915, turned pro in 1919, when he joined the Akron (OH) Pros following army service during World War I. In 1920, the Pros joined the newly founded American Professional Football Association, later renamed the National Football League. That season, with Pollard leading the charge, the Pros went undefeated (8-0-3) to win the league's first crown.
As a member of the new league, Pollard immediately earned a place in pro football history as one of just two African Americans in the new league. In 1921 he earned another distinction becoming the first African American head coach in NFL history when the Pros named him co-coach of the team.
Contemporary accounts indicate that Pollard, an exciting elusive runner, was the most feared running back in the fledgling league. During his pro football career the two-time All-America played and sometimes coached for four different NFL teams, the Pros/Indians (1920-21/1925-26), the Milwaukee Badgers (1922), the Hammond Pros (1923, 1925), and the Providence Steam Roller (1925). Fritz also spent time in 1923 and 1924 playing for the Gilberton Cadamounts, a strong independent pro team in the Pennsylvania “Coal League.”
In 1928, Pollard organized and coached the Chicago Black Hawks, an all-African American professional team based in the Windy City. Pollard's Black Hawks played against white teams around Chicago, but enjoyed their greatest success by scheduling exhibition games against West Coast teams during the winter months. From 1929 until 1932 when the Depression caused the team to fold, the Black Hawks had become one of the more popular teams on the West Coast.
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Robert Wells "Bobby" Marshall (March 12, 1880 – August 27, 1958) was an American sports player. He was best known for playing football, however he also competed in baseball,[2] track, boxing and ice hockey.
When Marshall played baseball for Minneapolis Central High School, he played first base for three years. Central was the champion of the Twin Cities High Schools for Marshall's Junior and Senior years, of 1900 and 1901.[4]
When he played baseball for the University of Minnesota, he also played first base for two years, 1904 and 1905, helping the University to win the Western Conference Championship in 1905.[4]
Marshall played end for the football team of the University of Minnesota from 1904 to 1906. In 1906, Marshall kicked a 60-yard field goal to beat the University of Chicago 4-2 (field goals counted as four points). He was the first African American to play football in the Big Nine (later the Big Ten Conference). He graduated in 1907 and played with Minneapolis pro teams, the Deans and the Marines. From 1920 through 1924 he played in the National Football League with the Minneapolis Marines, the Kelley Duluths, and the Rock Island Independents. He along with Fritz Pollard were the first African Americans to play in the NFL.
Shortly after graduating college, Marshall played third base for the Minneapolis "Lund-Lands" for one season in 1906. He played third base for one season for Lamoure, North Dakota[1] helping the team win third place in a league of eight teams.
Outside of athletics, Marshall practiced law as an attorney in the law office of Mr. William H. H. Franklin, and later at the well known firm of Nash and Armstrong.
1910 St. Paul Gophers
Marshall left the law offices, spending many years back on the diamonds, playing semi-pro baseball for pre-Negro National Leagues. In 1908, he played utility for the Minneapolis Keystones, then moved to first base latter in the season. In 1909, he joined the St. Paul Colored Gophers.[4] In 1910, he split the season between the Chicago Giants[5] and the St. Paul Colored Gophers, appearing for and managing the Colored Gophers team occasionally until at least 1916.[6]
It appears that Marshall bought the Twin City Colored Giants team in 1911.[3] At the end of the 1911 season, he received an appointment in the Minnesota state grain department.[7]
In a 1916 game, Marshall brought in "Cannonball Jackson" a pitcher acquired from J.L. Wilkinson's All Nations team.[6] Marshall would later appear in games with John Donaldson and the All Nations team in 1923.
In 1913, he took a job after the baseball season, managing a team at the Washburn-Crosby Milling Company.[1]
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
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February 2 - Today in 1914, artist William Ellisworth is born in Washington, North Carolina. Educated at Syracuse University, he was a student of Florida artist Augusta Savage. His works were exhibited at Atlanta University, the Whitney Museum, the Two Centuries of Black American Art exhibit, Fisk University, Hampton University, the North Carolina Museum of Art and private collectors.
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Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr.; May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was an American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Robinson was 85–0 as an amateur with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout, 40 in the first round. He turned professional in 1940 at the age of 19 and by 1951 had a professional record of 128–1–2 with 84 knockouts. From 1943 to 1951 Robinson went on a 91 fight unbeaten streak, the third longest in professional boxing history.[1][2] Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year. He retired in 1952, only to come back two and a half years later and regain the middleweight title in 1955. He then became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times, a feat he accomplished by defeating Carmen Basilio in 1958 to regain the middleweight championship. Robinson was named "fighter of the year" twice: first for his performances in 1942, then nine years and over 90 fights later, for his efforts in 1951.
Renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle outside the ring, Robinson is credited with being the originator of the modern sports "entourage". After his boxing career ended, Robinson attempted a career as an entertainer, but struggled, and was challenged financially[3] until his death in 1989. In 2006, he was featured on a commemorative stamp by the United States Postal Service.
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Little known facts in Black History!!!
Fact #1
As a child Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career.
Fact #2
Muhammad Ali, the self-proclaimed "greatest [boxer] of all time," was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Fact #3
Allensworth is the first all-black Californian township, founded and financed by African Americans. Created by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city where African Americans could live their lives free of racial prejudice.
Fact #4
Jazz, an African–American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century. The word "jazz" is a slang term that at one point referred to a sexual act.
Fact #5
During the 1930s, painter Charles Alston founded the 306 group, which convened in his studio space and provided support and apprenticeship for African-American artists, including Langston Hughes; sculptor Augusta Savage; and mixed-media visionary Romare Bearden.
Fact #1
As a child Muhammad Ali was refused an autograph by his boxing idol, Sugar Ray Robinson. When Ali became a prizefighter, he vowed never to deny an autograph request, which he honored throughout his career.
Fact #2
Muhammad Ali, the self-proclaimed "greatest [boxer] of all time," was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Fact #3
Allensworth is the first all-black Californian township, founded and financed by African Americans. Created by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city where African Americans could live their lives free of racial prejudice.
Fact #4
Jazz, an African–American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century. The word "jazz" is a slang term that at one point referred to a sexual act.
Fact #5
During the 1930s, painter Charles Alston founded the 306 group, which convened in his studio space and provided support and apprenticeship for African-American artists, including Langston Hughes; sculptor Augusta Savage; and mixed-media visionary Romare Bearden.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Mandla Maseko
In 2015, a 25 year-old South African man named Mandla Maseko will be the first African to go to space. Maseko was chosen through a competition organized by the Axe Apollo Space Academy. He was up against one million international competitors. Maseko and 22 other winners will travel 64 miles into space. The journey there takes one hour for a sub-orbital blast into the atmosphere on the Lynx Mark II spaceship. A trip such as this typically costs $100,000.
Mandla Maseko is from a township close to Pretoria in South Africa. He was raised in a meager household with four siblings; one of his parents works as a toolmaker, the other a cleaning supervisor. The young man had dreamed of being an astronaut since attending space camp. He would see American films such as “Star Trek” and “Apollo 13″ in awe, hoping to one day be among the ranks of top space travelers.
The news of Maseko’s win came only hours after it was announced that former South African President Nelson Mandela had passed away. He thought deeply of Mandela when he realized that he too would be making history. Maseko had to put his studies in civil engineering on hold because he didn’t have the money to finish school. He works part time as a DJ to pay expenses.
During the competition, Maseko, who had been one of the original 100 finalists, traveled to the states to undergo a series of tests: assault courses, skydiving, air combat and G-force training, building and launching a rocket, and a written aptitude test. He completed his training for judge and legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
In 2015, a 25 year-old South African man named Mandla Maseko will be the first African to go to space. Maseko was chosen through a competition organized by the Axe Apollo Space Academy. He was up against one million international competitors. Maseko and 22 other winners will travel 64 miles into space. The journey there takes one hour for a sub-orbital blast into the atmosphere on the Lynx Mark II spaceship. A trip such as this typically costs $100,000.
Mandla Maseko is from a township close to Pretoria in South Africa. He was raised in a meager household with four siblings; one of his parents works as a toolmaker, the other a cleaning supervisor. The young man had dreamed of being an astronaut since attending space camp. He would see American films such as “Star Trek” and “Apollo 13″ in awe, hoping to one day be among the ranks of top space travelers.
The news of Maseko’s win came only hours after it was announced that former South African President Nelson Mandela had passed away. He thought deeply of Mandela when he realized that he too would be making history. Maseko had to put his studies in civil engineering on hold because he didn’t have the money to finish school. He works part time as a DJ to pay expenses.
During the competition, Maseko, who had been one of the original 100 finalists, traveled to the states to undergo a series of tests: assault courses, skydiving, air combat and G-force training, building and launching a rocket, and a written aptitude test. He completed his training for judge and legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin.