Day 13
Black Women Athletes
Day 12
. Black Women Authors Continuing with this weekend's Black History Month theme of focusing on Black women, today I highlight a few of the literary greats. Feel free to add to this list with your own suggestions by leaving them in the reader's comment section. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) A black poet. The second book of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen (1949) won the Eunice →
Day 9
Massachusetts 54th Regiment The 54th was organized in March 1863, since it was an all black regiment except for it Leaders, and being the first black Regiment to be organized in the northern States all eyes were on its progress. If the performance turned out to be good, it would be the deciding factor if Black's could be used in →
Day 8
Separate But Equal. Separate But Equal Doctrine derived from the Supreme Court's decision inPlessy v. Ferguson (1896) that state‐mandated separation of the races in public transportation did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment's ban on involuntary servitude or the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses so long as the facilities provided for the segregated races were equal. In Plessy, all the justices save John Marshall Harlan →
Day 6
The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad consisted of an expansive network of people who helped runaway slaves escape to the Northern States and to Canada. The Underground Railroad was not run by any single group or person. Rather, it consisted of many individuals -- a good number of whites but predominantly black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid runaways →
Day 5
Civil Rights Act of 1964 “Americans of every race and color have died in battle to protect our freedom. Americans of every race and color have worked to build a nation of widening opportunities. Now our generation of Americans has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders. We believe that all men are created equal. →
Day 4
. Blacks In the Military. "Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship." -Frederick Douglass Approximately 180,000 African-Americans comprising →
Day 2
. Click image to see video . JOSEPHINE BAKER - Began as a "Chorus Dancer." - Headed to New York during the Harlem Renaissance. - Performed for the troops during the French Revolution. - Was a secret agent for the French and transferred information. - She opened in Paris as an "erotic dancer." →