Celebrating the stories of Black scientists who shaped our understanding of the oceans.
Abolitionism, movement between about 1783 and 1888 that was chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. Between the 16th and 19th centuries an estimated total of 12 million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. The exact dates of its existence are not known, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War, at which point its efforts continued to undermine the Confederacy.
The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
Les fils de Benkos sont les descendants d’un esclave enfui qui a fondé, au début du XVIIIe siècle, le tout premier village libre de Colombie. La
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Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. His three autobiographies are considered important works of the slave narrative tradition as well as classics of American autobiography. Douglass’ work as a reformer ranged from his...
This article explores the life and character of Nat Turner, the famous leader of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.
Hand drawn set of 12 color images and 12 black and white portraits of Leaders of Modern History, People in Power from around the world. Introduce your students to visual portraits of some of history's most memorial men. These are great for coloring pages, flashcards, bulletin board decor, etc. This set includes: Biljana Plavsic Hashim Thaci Norman Schwarzkopf Osama bin Laden Paul Wolfowitz Radovan Karadzic Ratko Mladic Red Adair Sheikh Sabah IV Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Sir Michael Rose Stevan Kragujevic Slobodan Milosevic Tony Blair Each image is a high resolution 300 dpi created in a PNG format with a transparent background. All of my artwork is for commercial use so yes, you can use these in your own projects and curriculums for resale. I do ask that you do not resell as images or clip art or use for a free product. Please check out some of my other Historical clip art as well as papercrafts. Leaders of Modern History, Men In Power Vol. 1 Black History Month Vol 1 Famous People Black History Month Vol 2 Famous People Famous People of the 1930's Vol. 2 Famous People of the 1930's Vol. 1
Kingdom of Whydah Crowning of the King of Whydah, by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779) The Kingdom of Whydah /ˈhwɪdə/ was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in …
There are lessons from half a century ago for South Africa’s most recent student uprisings.
Growing up in integrated Kansas City neighborhoods- I respected and admired Dr. King for peacefully seeking to right the wrongs that confronted black people- more than 100 years after a war that supposedly "liberated" them. I thought I'd share my recollections today on what would have been Dr. King's 82nd birthday- of hearing about Dr. King's death on April 4, 1968 and the days afterwards... It was a Friday evening- when the TV networks broke into regular programming to tell America and the world of what had happened in Memphis Tennessee around 6 p.m.- when James Earl Ray shot Dr. King while he was standing outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Even after having endured the killing of President John F. Kennedy as a 6th grader nearly 5 years earlier- the killing of Dr. King- an advocate of peaceful protest- was quite a shock. Later that Friday night- an NBC News film showed President Kennedy's brother and 1968 presidential candidate Robert addressing a crowd in a predominately black part of Indianapolis in regard to Dr. King's killing. Although virtually nothing was known at that point regarding details on the shooter and certainly not the assassin's race- Robert told the crowd that HIS brother had been shot "by a white man-" and urged calm (Indianapolis was one of the few large American cities that wouldn't suffer riots in the coming days). Robert would suffer the same fate as Dr. King almost 2 months to-the-day later that year. In April of 1968- I was a sophomore at Southeast High school in Kansas City MO- and on the next day Saturday- April 5- our school's Concert choir was to take a bus ride to a state music competition in Warrensburg at Central Missouri State University. The bus ride was somber and the air was tense- with the black choir members riding in the rear of the motor coach talking quietly. I sat in the toward the front of that group- basically between the white and black choir members. I had grown up with a number of the black kids- and they knew that I was a friend first who truly understood what was going on with that "racial thing" with me being a white guy somewhere way down their list. I was as lost as they were- and felt a guilt I shouldn't have felt JUST because of my skin color and hoped they understood. The air at the CMSU campus was also tense that Saturday morning- and- although I tried to stay with the Southeast choir members- it was clear that the color of MY skin was causing tension with those from other schools around the state who certainly did not know of my fair-play or "politics." Many attending the competition were anticipating trouble- a "riot" actually- and (most of) the white kids kept a respectful if not fearful distance from the black kids- but here I was in-between- feeling every bit of the black kids' pain and trying to express it. Our choir won the top honors that day- but it was of little consolation to many members of our choir in the somber bus ride home. Unlike nearly a dozen American cities where devastating riots took place- Kansas City remained calm over the next several days and I recall no particularly striking memories of anything until the next week and the day of Dr. King's funeral on Wednesday- April 9th. The Kansas City MO schools had not been dismissed that day- and many black students were angry over that seemingly racial omission. During a 2nd-hour class that morning a film was being shown and as the 'certified projector operator' that I was- I had to return the machine to the school's office after the film. It was in the office where I overheard the school officials and office staff talking in hushed but urgent tones- reportedly- black students from the Paseo and Central High schools were marching to Southeast to "liberate" their brothers and sisters from school and march to Downtown to ask why school hadn't been cancelled for Dr. King's funeral. It was then that it was decided school would be dismissed at the end of that second hour class- and I rushed back up to the 3rd floor with the news as the school's principal was beginning the announcement over the school's public address system. Although the principal didn't say so- word of what I had heard about that "liberation" spread quickly just in the following minutes as students rushed to their lockers and toward the exits. Several of us- including a black friend- piled into a white friend's Mercury that several of us neighborhood students of Southeast rode to and from school in- and we headed to the Mark Twain elementary school where our younger brothers and sisters were to take them home to safety. Already a teenage weatherman and certainly a follower of the news- I went home and come noon- turned on a TV newscast. A crowd of several hundred protesters had gathered in Parade Park at Truman Road and The Paseo and were addressed by several black activists. Soon- the activists had urged the crowd to march on City Hall Downtown- and they took Interstate 70 on foot to get there- closing the westbound lanes. That afternoon- I rode my bike to Raytown to visit my girlfriend and another friend after the Raytown schools let out- so I was unaware until later what went on Downtown. What went on Downtown was that crowd of several hundred mostly peaceful young black people (but also a few more-radical- trouble-making people) had gathered on 12th Street in front of City Hall to meet with and be addressed by Mayor Ilus Davis- other city officials and police chief Clarence Kelly. At some point during that meeting- no one to this day knows exactly what happened- someone threw either a glass bottle or fireworks into the crowd and the sound was mistaken for gunfire (those were the days that the worse weapon you might be thug-confronted with would be a knife). The several-dozen riot-gear-wearing cops that had arrived for crowd control then fired tear-gas canisters into the large crowd- scattering them throughout downtown. It was then the trouble really started- youths started running through downtown streets that- in those days- were still filled with shoppers of the many downtown stores still in business. Windows were broken in a number of those stores and the downtown pedestrians were assaulted or otherwise "terrorized-" as news accounts of the day reported- by the angry black youths. The crowds scattered- the youths made it back to the "inner-city" with only a few arrests that day- but the stage was set and "the Kansas City Riot of 1968" was on. I shall never- ever- forget the sight that evening along Raytown Road before Dad came to pick me up and take me back home. Military vehicles of all shapes and sizes- including half-tracks with combat-ready troops- were rolling north in a 4-block long procession from the National Guard camp on 87th Street toward the city. We stood in awe watching this- for I knew what was going on since there had already been rioting in a number of mostly eastern American cities in the days after Dr. King's killing. Even that wouldn't prepare me for later that night- when we sat on the roof of our East 61st Street home with BB guns and one .22-caliber rifle preparing to defend our home against an unknown horde- watching huge billows of smoke and orange flames rise in the spring night sky miles to the north from buildings set on fire by rioters. Dramatic radio and TV reports from those areas fed the fear- the city was under curfew and people were locked behind their doors with window shades drawn. I had feelings- on that warm- spring April night at age 15- of confusion with an uneasy undertone of uncertainty and desperation for my city and my country. Five people would die (other media sources report "seven" dead) in the Kansas City riots over the next 2 days. Dr. King had advocated "peaceful" change and here he was murdered- with the black population deprived of a thoughtful leader with a very small minority and mostly criminal portion of that population going wild. It was as if the world as I knew it was coming to some frightening and unknown end and even if that didn't happen- things would surely never be the same. And to this day- 43 years later in another century and with our first black president- many of the feelings and conditions that led to the anger and frustration of April 1968 STILL persists- not only among black people- but among ALL races in America suffering from economic degradation- segregation and the continuing loss of freedoms. If Dr. King were still alive today- he would be addressing all of us suffering from those conditions- and Dr. King would continue to strive for a peaceful solution to save America from a violent conclusion. ___________
Patrice Lumumba: Poet, Revolutionary, and Freedom Fighter Patrice Lumumba (July 2, 1925 –Jan. 17, 1961) was the first elected prime minister of the
After my article on one of Africa’s greatest freedom fighter, the Cameroonian leader, Ruben Um Nyobé, I thought that this small rare video with pictures of Um Nyobé would be very fit to add t…
Kingdom of Whydah Crowning of the King of Whydah, by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779) The Kingdom of Whydah /ˈhwɪdə/ was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in …
A. Philip Randolph was a civil rights activist and labor union leader, known for starting the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Born Araminta “Minty” Ross in Maryland around 1822, “Harriet” adopted her mother’s name after escaping slavery.
How much do you know about African American leaders and events? Test your knowledge of Black History.
The Green Book offered travel guidance to African Americans about safe places to eat, stay, and buy gas during the long era of Jim Crow laws.
One of the greatest Wars of Independence ever fought in history was the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), led by the ‘immortal’ black leader Toussaint Loverture, who became a General in the French military, and whose destiny it was to deliver the slaves and people of Saint Domingue, now Haiti. Before his tragic death in France as a result...
Black History Month: Writer and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was an early force in civil rights movement
If biblical prophecy teaches us anything, it is that God is in complete control of human history and its culmination.
Celebrate Black History Month this October by teaching about the pioneers, inventors, thought leaders and activitists who have given so much to our country
Thembisile “Chris” Hani was born June 28, 1942, in Cofimvaba, in the Transkei region of South Africa. He was from a working-class family, with both of his parents being only semi-literate. His father worked as an unskilled laborer in the mines and on construction sites. His mother was a subsistence farmer who grew enough food to feed her ...
Other articles where Madison Washington is discussed: slave rebellions: …fact—the leader of the uprising, Madison Washington, was a formerly enslaved man who had escaped successfully and fled to Canada. He had returned to Virginia for his wife but was recaptured there and put on a slave ship in Richmond. Aboard the Creole, Washington and nearly 20 others led a…
A speech by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: "Racism will never end as long as white cars are still using black tyres. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolise bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not whitelisted. Even when playing snooker. You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black butt , I'm fine!".. Isn't the president, in the picture above, hilarious? Lol
On 17 January 1961 Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congolese Republic and hero of the independence movement was assassinated. Below are four poem published in his me…
