BmoreGorilla
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I made a thread about this in the Booth but it works so well here 
So proud to be just who I am so proud to say that Im me
So proud to be just who I am so proud to say that Im me
Official Black History Month Thread (2015)
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Excellent thread.
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Alfred L. Cralle (September 4, 1866 – 1920) an African-American from Virginia, who became an inventor and businessman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best remembered for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897.
Alfred L. Cralle was born in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1866 just after the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865). He attended local schools and worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man, becoming interested in mechanics.
He was sent to Washington, DC where he attended Wayland Seminary, one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help educate African-Americans after the Civil War. He later settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he first served as a porter in a drug store and at a hotel.
It was while working in Pittsburgh as a porter that Cralle noticed that ice cream, which had become a popular confection, was difficult to dispense. It tended to stick to spoons and ladles, usually requiring use of two hands and at least two implements to serve. To overcome this, he invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. On February 2, 1897, he was granted U.S. Patent #576395.
Cralle’s ingenious invention, originally called an “Ice Cream Mold and Disher” was designed to be able to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking, and easy to operate with one hand. Strong and durable, effective, inexpensive, it could be constructed in almost any desired shape, such as a cone or a mound, with no delicate parts that could break or malfunction.
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Imma be here for some time
Imma be here for some time
how did they do this. ?Allen Allensworth, was notable for founding the township of Allensworth, California in 1908; it was intended as an all-black community at the turn of the 20th century. It was the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans.
@bdizzle
By pooling there resources together, only mistake they made was picking land that wasn't fertile, farming was supposed to sustain them
read this book if you want to know blacks started western civilization
http://www.lojsociety.org/aymero_pdf/from_babylon_to_timbuktu_by_rudolph_r_windsor.pdf
audio book for you lazy nikkaz
http://www.lojsociety.org/aymero_pdf/from_babylon_to_timbuktu_by_rudolph_r_windsor.pdf
audio book for you lazy nikkaz
beautiful thread
Augustus Jackson
In the late 1820s, Augustus left his job as a White House chef, and moved to Philadelphia to set up a catering business, which proved to be quite successful. By 1832, he had developed a much more efficient and modern method for making ice cream, whose origins can be traced back to 400 BC, in Persia.
Augustus discovered that ice, mixed with salt, could lower and control the temperature of his special mix of ingredients, to make a delicious ice cream. Those ingredients were, indeed, quite creatively mixed; and he invented several new flavors, which were very popular – especially amongst African-Americans, who liked sweet treats.
Augustus Jackson
In the late 1820s, Augustus left his job as a White House chef, and moved to Philadelphia to set up a catering business, which proved to be quite successful. By 1832, he had developed a much more efficient and modern method for making ice cream, whose origins can be traced back to 400 BC, in Persia.
Augustus discovered that ice, mixed with salt, could lower and control the temperature of his special mix of ingredients, to make a delicious ice cream. Those ingredients were, indeed, quite creatively mixed; and he invented several new flavors, which were very popular – especially amongst African-Americans, who liked sweet treats.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
I never knew a black man made the ice cream scoop. I'm about to eat some cookies in cream in his honor
Alfred L. Cralle (September 4, 1866 – 1920) an African-American from Virginia, who became an inventor and businessman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best remembered for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897.
Alfred L. Cralle was born in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1866 just after the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865). He attended local schools and worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man, becoming interested in mechanics.
He was sent to Washington, DC where he attended Wayland Seminary, one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help educate African-Americans after the Civil War. He later settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he first served as a porter in a drug store and at a hotel.
It was while working in Pittsburgh as a porter that Cralle noticed that ice cream, which had become a popular confection, was difficult to dispense. It tended to stick to spoons and ladles, usually requiring use of two hands and at least two implements to serve. To overcome this, he invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. On February 2, 1897, he was granted U.S. Patent #576395.
Cralle’s ingenious invention, originally called an “Ice Cream Mold and Disher” was designed to be able to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking, and easy to operate with one hand. Strong and durable, effective, inexpensive, it could be constructed in almost any desired shape, such as a cone or a mound, with no delicate parts that could break or malfunction.
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the age of 12. At that point his owner, John K. McKee, sent him to Charleston to work as a waiter, ship rigger, and sailor, with all earnings going to McKee. This arrangement continued until Smalls was 18 when he negotiated to keep all but $15 of his monthly pay, a deal which allowed Smalls to begin saving money. The savings that he accumulated were later used to purchase his wife and daughter from their owner for a sum of $800. Their son was born a few years later.
In 1861 Smalls was hired as a deckhand on the Confederate transport steamer Planter captained by General Roswell Ripley, the commander of the Second Military District of South Carolina. The Planter was assigned the job of delivering armaments to the Confederate forts. On May 13, 1862, the crew of the Planter went ashore for the evening, leaving Smalls to guard the ship and its contents. Smalls loaded the ship with his wife, children and 12 other slaves from the city and sailed it to the area of the harbor where Union ships had formed their blockade. This trip led the ship past five forts, all of which required the correct whistle signal to indicate they were a Confederate ship. Smalls eventually presented the Planter before Onward, a Union blockade ship and raised the white flag of surrender. He later turned over all charts, a Confederate naval code book, and armaments, as well as the Planter itself, over to the Union Navy.
Smalls’s feat is partly credited with persuading a reluctant President Abraham Lincoln to now consider allowing African Americans into the Union Army. Smalls went on a speaking tour across the North to describe the episode and to recruit black soldiers for the war effort. By late 1863 he returned to the war zone to pilot the Planter, now a Union war vessel. In December 1863 he was promoted to Captain of the vessel, becoming the first African American to hold that rank in the history of the United States Navy.
After the Civil War Smalls entered politics as a Republican. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and later to the South Carolina Senate. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives first from South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and later from South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District. Smalls served in Congress between 1868 and 1889.
When his last term ended Smalls moved back to Beaufort, South Carolina to become the United States Collector of Customs. He also purchased and resided in the house in which he had once been a slave. Robert Smalls died in Beaufort on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family.
Matthew Henson
Born to sharecroppers on a farm in Nanjemoy, Md., Matthew Alexander Henson became the first African-American Arctic explorer, and is credited by many as the first man to reach the North Pole, in 1909.
Henson was an associate of the American explorer Robert Peary on seven voyages over a period of nearly 23 years. Henson served as a navigator and craftsman, traded with Inuit and learned their language. He was known as Peary’s “first man” when it came to tackling the arduous expeditions.