BLACKHISTORYMONTH Celebration

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An Enjoyable Day to you, your significant others and your family!

Below is our tribute this year to African American History Month.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Drum Major
Photo by TONY SPINA
Detroit Press

Birth/Assassination
January 15, 1929 - Atlanta, GA
April 4, 1968 - Memphis, TN (Age 39)

FEBRUARY - Black History Month”

February 1 - 29 (Leap Year)

Theme: “Sharing the Legacy of America”

During the course of the month we will add/share various historic aspects of the life of Americans that are of the African American race for your perusal, sharing and comment.

A phenomenal and resilient race that will not die or give up.

After the photo gallery, we will start with the Drum major,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and some of his notable quotes.

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou
Poet, dancer, producer, playwright, director, author

The Family

FEBRUARY - BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Our theme: Sharing the Legacy of America

Bring Black History Month closer to home and dedicate February to legendary family tales, from long ago ancestors to fascinating facts about grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Put these stories on paper and you’ve got a family notebook for generations to come.

The Family’s Girls

Inventing Fun

Try this twist on the traditional I Spy game. For example, I spy a stoplight, invented by Garrett A. Morgan in 1923.

As you spot objects invented or influenced by African Americans, share simple facts with little ones. For the older kids, lay down a challenge to stump you!

For more, go to:
B Smith Serving Up Soul

MARCH - EASTER HAS COME AND GONE

Did you share with your family?

B. SAYS…

It’s been a while since the family gathered for a holiday meal, and hosting an Easter brunch makes the celebration last a little longer—with plenty of time to joyfully move from a late morning meal to afternoon Easter activities.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

For more, go to,
Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre

Professor Henry “Skip” Gates

Havard University - W.E. DuBois Institute

“African American Lives 2″

African American Lives 2 DVD
Description:
Henry Louis Gates Jr. will guide a new group to discover their ancestry in AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2. The series will draw on DNA analysis, genealogical research and family oral tradition to trace the lineages of the participants

They include: Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Tina Turner, down through U.S. history and back to Africa.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIVES, A FOUR-HOUR DOCUMENTARY SERIES TRACING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH GENEALOGY AND DNA SCIENCE, TO PREMIERE FEBRUARY 2006 ON PBS

For more info, go to:
African American Lives2

Press Release

Today’s Photo Gallery

  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
  • Justice

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  • Leadership

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  • Values

A lie cannot live.

  • Dependence

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

  • Passion

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

  • Nation

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

  • Military Issues

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

2008 Elections

This is a historic election year, our American ancestors fought to the death for the RIGHT TO VOTE, it is most important that African Americans register, study the issues, support the candidate that will support your issues vigorously; and, do not let anyone turn you around on VOTING DAY.

Mary Glass
February 1, 2008

Candidate Obama Wins 2–1 in South Carolina

Candidate Obama and wife Michele

History

People’s Beer

Wisconsin’s 1st African American Brewery established in 1970 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. President Theodore Mack.

For artifacts, go to:

Theodore Mack
AND
Peoples Beer

Serving Up Soul

w/B. Smith

For more on the above photo, go to,
See Food Page

American Slaves that built the country w/cotton

- African Americans

Photo Gallery

African Americans as slaves working in the cotton field.

Cotton was the most important crop in the South before the American Civil War (1861–1865). Slaves usually worked all day picking cotton for their masters while overseers watched from their horses.

Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of “contrabands” (African Americans) at Foller’s house. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, The Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Contraband
During the American Civil War, a black slave who escaped to or was brought within the Union (north) lines.

Freeman in Richmond, Virginia

Freeman
A person not in slavery or serfdom.

A negro/Black/African American family coming into union line (above the Mason & Dixon line(north)

Mason-Dixon line - The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.

The Largest Slave Auction
March 3, 1859

Butler’s slaves were sold in an auction similar to the one in this illustration

In spite of having inherited two plantations, Pierce M. Butler owed a great deal of money. Over two days, Butler auctioned off the human portion of his property to help pay off his debts. It was the largest sale of slaves on record in the United States, and it was referred to as “The Weeping Time.”

The 436 men, women, children, and infants(African Americans), all of whom had been born on his plantations, were brought to a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, and put in the stalls used for horses. There they waited, some for days, others for weeks, for the auction to begin on March 3, 1859.

For more on this story, visit,
Largest Slave Auction

For more about the two above photos as well as other wrongful deeds, go to,
Re-Living Memories: Picturing Death

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