Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario in 1843. His parents were escaped slaves who made it to Canada from Kentucky via the Underground Railroad.
The family relocated to the U.S. and settled near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Young Elijah McCoy deve ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 2:30PM
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Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919. Graduating from UCLA, he began to play baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs. When Branch Rickey decided to pioneer in hiring Black baseball players, he hired Robinson on October 23, 1945.
On April 18, 19 ...
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Freedom, More or Less
On August 1, 1834, the Emancipation Act came into force, after fifty years of bitter debate in Britain over the morality and profitability of slavery. It did not abolish servitude, but it was the first significant promise of ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 2:25PM
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Many of us possess talents and abilities but do not excel because we don't take the chances or act on the challenges that come our way. We need to walk over to the edge of our abilities and then move beyond that edge ... From the outside this can loo ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 2:24PM
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The truth about Egyptian race and Afrikan contribution to world civilization.
Self Education Is The Best Education!
http://black-history-book-club.blogspot.com
Black History Book Club Resource:
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Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:45AM
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Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront of the radical political activism ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:29AM
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WASHINGTON
Walking along the Mall the day after Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nation's 44th president, I saw something I'd never seen before.
Clusters of people, of all races and ages, strolling along and talking out loud about U.S. histo ...
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February 1818 Born Frederick Baily near Easton, Maryland
1824 Works for Captain Aaron Anthony
1826 Travels to Baltimore, Maryland to work for Hugh Auld
March 1833 Returns to Anthony farm to work for Thomas Auld
January 1834 Works for Edward Covey ...
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