jilla82
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none of this has to do with our everyday actions as a people...
its just excuses
The Random stories of Black History thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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its just excuses
Home of an African American lawyer in Atlanta with people posed on the house's porch in 1899.
Shark Island is a small island located off the coast of Nambia. It’s
the site where over hundred years ago the Germans held a concentration camp which was also known as “Death Island”. Shark Island Concentration Camp is something like other African tragedies that is
omitted from history.
Over 10,000 African people from the Herero and Namaqua tribe were killed between 1905 to 1907. At the time Nambia was under the German empire, On the island, Germans used some of the same
methods they used on Jews on the Herero and Namaqua. Methods such as
torture, forced larbor, and went as far cracking the skulls of the
Herero and Namaqua. WIth the dead bodies, the Germans ran “Medical Investigation” on the Herero and Namaqua to see which was the inferior
race. Other methods of torture were rape and forcing the women to do hard labor after and kept them starved for many days at time. Its not
Ironic to me events like this committed to African go omitted but Jewish Holocaust “Never Forget” slogan is used.
This is the final Installment of SanCopha League White History,
where the Whites Lies were exposed, and omitted events that Europeans
were finally revealed for you see and learn from.
“Those who do not understand true PAIN can never understand true PEACE” ~ Pain
Maybe now you can understand our Pain
Dr. Dennis W. Weatherby (December 4, 1959 - September 15, 2007) was an administrator and scientist, responsible for leading the team that developed the chemical formula for what is now known as Cascade Dishwashing Detergent. He was born in Brighton, Alabama to Willie and Flossie Mae Weatherby. He earned a football scholarship to Central State University. He graduated with a BA in Chemistry, and an MA in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Auburn University.
He took a job with the Procter & Gamble Company. He was hired as a process engineer, he was asked to lead a team to create a new version of dishwashing detergent. He made a breakthrough, and along with co-developer Brian J. Roselle, he and his team developed a solution that did not stain dishes. On December 22, 1987, he received US Patent #4,714,562 for “automatic dishwasher detergent composition.”
He worked for The Whittaker Corporation, before joining the faculty at Central State University. He became the assistant professor of water quality for the CSU International Center for Water Resources Management. He served as an advisor, recruiter, and counselor for students in the environmental program, and was responsible for more than 400% growth in student enrollment at the university.
He joined the faculty of Auburn University, to establish and lead the school’s new minority engineering program. He moved to the University of Notre Dame, serving as the associate dean of the graduate school. He accepted the position of Associate Provost for student success at Northern Kentucky University.
He suffered from high blood pressure throughout his life and fell ill in August 2007. While recovering at home, he hit his foot on a bedpost and developed a blood clot that traveled to his brain. He is survived by his wife, Marpessa, 4 daughters and 2 sons. In his honor, to commemorate 25 years of the Engineering Academic Excellence Program, The Weatherby Society at Auburn University was established to recognize those who have made donations and gifts of over $25,000. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha
Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. Fields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission. She drove the route for two four-year contracts, from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled the USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States
Elijah J. McCoy was born on May 2, 1844, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, to George and Mildred Goins McCoy.
—The McCoys were fugitive slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Canada via the Underground Railroad. In 1847, the large family returned to the United States, settling in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
—Beginning at a young age, Elijah McCoy showed a strong interest in mechanics. His parents arranged for him to travel to Scotland at the age of 15 for an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. He returned home to Michigan after becoming certified as a mechanical engineer.
—Despite his qualifications, McCoy was unable to find work as an engineer in the United States due to racial barriers;
—McCoy accepted a position as a fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. It was in this line of work that he developed his first major inventions. After studying the inefficiencies inherent in the existing system of oiling axles, he invented a lubricating cup that distributed oil evenly over the engine's moving parts. He obtained a patent for this invention, which allowed trains to run continuously for long periods of time without pausing for maintenance.
—McCoy continued to refine his devices, receiving nearly 60 patents over the course of his life. While the majority of his inventions related to lubrication systems, he also developed designs for an ironing board, a lawn sprinkler, and other machines.
—Although McCoy's achievements were recognized in his own time, his name did not appear on the majority of the products that he devised.
—Lacking the capital with which to manufacture his lubricators in large numbers, he typically assigned his patent rights to his employers or sold them to investors. In 1920, toward the end of his life, McCoy formed the Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Company to produce lubricators bearing his name.
—McCoy married Ann Elizabeth Stewart in 1868. She died four years after their marriage. In 1873, McCoy married Mary Eleanor Delaney. In 1922, the McCoys were involved in an automobile accident. Mary died, while Elijah sustained critical injuries from which he never fully recovered.
—Elijah McCoy died on October 10, 1929.
“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”
Lift Every Voice: Mary Wallace
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African American and Hennessey's relationship did not start with Hip Hop. It actually started in WWI when when African American soldiers stationed in France began to consume it. The relationship strengthened in WWII when African American GIs returned to France to fight the Nazis. Hennessey then realized on5of their strongest markets was African Americans and they became supporters of Civil Rights and they began promoting African Americans into management roles and they were the first liquor company to advertise in JET, Ebony, etc. So bum ass rappers didn't actually create the relationship between French wine makers and African Americans.
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From Black GIs to Puff Daddy: how African Americans fell in love with cognac
Legend has it that African Americans soldiers brought back a love of cognac after service in Europe in World War II. It’s a lovely story, but the history goes back much further.
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Hennessy's Popularity Is Not Due To Hip Hop. The Story Is Much Deeper Than That.
“I found a picture from 10 years ago, back in college, and I had a fifth of Hennessy V.S. in my hand,” said Kevin Madden, Möet Hennessy USA’s Associate Manager of Multicultural Marketing, when asked about his first experience with cognac.
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An Ode to Hennessy - DVAN
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Noticed that the news segments featuring black achievements both past and present are missing, zero black history banners for commercials, and even my very progressive company has zero black history posters or acknowledgments so far. Guarantee this month will be erased for good next year. Destruction of this shythole country can’t come soon enough…
On this day
February 10, 1908
Mob of 2,000 White People Lynches a Black Man in Brookhaven, Mississippi
On February 10, 1908, a mob of over 2,000 white people lynched a Black man named Eli Pigot in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Mr. Pigot was accused of sexual impropriety with a white woman and was brutally killed before he could be tried in a court of law. During this era, allegations against Black people were rarely subject to scrutiny and often sparked violent reprisals before the judicial system could or would act.
On the morning of February 10, according to news reports, police deputies and armed military guards transported Mr. Pigot from Jackson to Brookhaven to stand trial. Upon arrival in Brookhaven, the lynch mob scuffled briefly with the military guards before seizing Mr. Pigot, kicking and beating him, and then hanging him from a telephone pole less than 100 yards from the Lincoln County Courthouse. The mob then riddled Mr. Pigot's corpse with bullets as it swung from the pole.
The racial hostility that permeated American society during this era burdened Black people with a presumption of guilt that frequently proved deadly. In particular, widespread stereotypes depicting Black men as dangerous, violent, and uncontrollable sexual aggressors led to a racialized state of hyper-vigilance, in which any action by a Black man that could be interpreted as seeking or desiring contact with a white woman could result in mob violence. At the peak of racial terror lynchings in this country, it was not uncommon for lynch mobs to seize their victims from jails, prisons, courtrooms, or out of the hands of guards, like in this case. Though they were armed and charged with protecting the men and women in their custody, police and other officials almost never used force to resist white lynch mobs intent on killing Black people. In some cases, police officials were even found to be complicit or active participants in lynchings.
After the lynching, press reports focused on the minor injuries sustained by military officials who, despite failing to protect Mr. Pigot from mob murder, were lauded for their “courage and effort.” The state governor denounced the mob’s actions, but nothing was done to bring the perpetrators to justice. Though the lynching took place in broad daylight with officers of the court present—the judge who was scheduled to preside over Mr. Pigot’s trial witnessed his brutal death and some white men scheduled to serve on the jury reportedly participated in the lynching—no one was ever held accountable for the murder of Eli Pigot.
