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Jesse Owens-
"games changer"
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a TRUE American....
he styled on racism internationally AND domestically...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH THREAD
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*salute*
a TRUE American....
he styled on racism internationally AND domestically...
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Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
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Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
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Tuskegee Airmen
Posted 2/2/2009 Updated 2/10/2009Email story Print story
The primary flight training for these servicemembers took place at the Division of Aeronautics of Tuskegee Institute. Air Corps officials built a separate facility at Tuskegee Army Air Field to train the pilots. The Tuskegee Airmen not only battled enemies during wartime but also fought against racism and segregation thus proving they were just as good as any other pilot. Racism was common during World War II and many people did not want blacks to become pilots. They trained in overcrowded classrooms and airstrips, and suffered from the racist attitude of some military officials. The Tuskegee Airman suffered many hardships, but they proved themselves to be world class pilots.
Even though the Tuskegee Airmen proved their worth as military pilots they were still forced to operate in segregated units and did not fight alongside their white countrymen.
The men earned the nickname "Red Tail Angels" since the bombers considered their escorts "angels" and the red paint on the propeller and tail of their planes.
In March of 1942 George Roberts, Benjamin Davis Jr., Charles BeBow Jr., Mac Ross and Lemuel Custis received silver wings of Army Air Force pilots. These men completed the standard Army flight classroom instruction and many hours of flight time. Receiving their silver wings marked a milestone in being the first African Americans to qualify as military pilots in any branch of the armed forces.
By the end of the war, 992 men had graduated from Negro Air Corps pilot training at Tuskegee; 450 were sent overseas for combat assignment. During the same period, about 150 lost their lives while in training or on combat flights. These black Airmen manage to destroy or damage over 409 German airplanes, 950 ground units, and sank a battleship destroyer. They ran more than 200 bomber escort missions during World War II.
On Nov. 6, 1998, President Clinton approved Public Law 105-355, which established the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala., to commemorate and interpret the heroic actions of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
When the site opened Oct. 10, 2008, at Moton Field, Ala., National Park Officials designated part of Interstate 85, which passes near the city of Tuskegee, as the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway
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Tuskegee Airmen
Posted 2/2/2009 Updated 2/10/2009Email story Print story
The primary flight training for these servicemembers took place at the Division of Aeronautics of Tuskegee Institute. Air Corps officials built a separate facility at Tuskegee Army Air Field to train the pilots. The Tuskegee Airmen not only battled enemies during wartime but also fought against racism and segregation thus proving they were just as good as any other pilot. Racism was common during World War II and many people did not want blacks to become pilots. They trained in overcrowded classrooms and airstrips, and suffered from the racist attitude of some military officials. The Tuskegee Airman suffered many hardships, but they proved themselves to be world class pilots.
Even though the Tuskegee Airmen proved their worth as military pilots they were still forced to operate in segregated units and did not fight alongside their white countrymen.
The men earned the nickname "Red Tail Angels" since the bombers considered their escorts "angels" and the red paint on the propeller and tail of their planes.
In March of 1942 George Roberts, Benjamin Davis Jr., Charles BeBow Jr., Mac Ross and Lemuel Custis received silver wings of Army Air Force pilots. These men completed the standard Army flight classroom instruction and many hours of flight time. Receiving their silver wings marked a milestone in being the first African Americans to qualify as military pilots in any branch of the armed forces.
By the end of the war, 992 men had graduated from Negro Air Corps pilot training at Tuskegee; 450 were sent overseas for combat assignment. During the same period, about 150 lost their lives while in training or on combat flights. These black Airmen manage to destroy or damage over 409 German airplanes, 950 ground units, and sank a battleship destroyer. They ran more than 200 bomber escort missions during World War II.
On Nov. 6, 1998, President Clinton approved Public Law 105-355, which established the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala., to commemorate and interpret the heroic actions of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
When the site opened Oct. 10, 2008, at Moton Field, Ala., National Park Officials designated part of Interstate 85, which passes near the city of Tuskegee, as the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway
Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preachings of love and non-violent resistance, and Malcolm X, the fiery street preacher who advocated a bloody overthrow of the system, are both more closely associate in the popular mind and myth with the civil rights struggle. But it was Thurgood Marshall, working through the courts to eradicate the legacy of slavery and destroying the racist segregation system of Jim Crow, who had an even more profound and lasting effect on race relations than either of King or X.
[/size]who ended legal segregation in the United States. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, all of which overturned the 'Separate-but-Equal' apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. It was Marshall who won the most important legal case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. The success of the Brown case sparked the 1960s civil rights movement, led to the increased number of black high school and college graduates and the incredible rise of the black middle-class in both numbers and political power in the second half of the century.
He worked on behalf of black Americans, but built a structure of individual rights that became the cornerstone of protections for all Americans. He succeeded in creating new protections under law for women, children, prisoners, and the homeless. Their greater claim to full citizenship in the republic over the last century can be directly traced to Marshall. Even the American press had Marshall to thank for an expansion of its liberties during the century.
Marshall's lifework, then, literally defined the movement of race relations through the century. He rejected King's peaceful protest as rhetorical fluff that accomplished no permanent change in society. And he rejected Malcolm X's talk of violent revolution and a separate black nation as racist craziness in a multi-racial society.
The key to Marshall's work was his conviction that integration -- and only integration -- would allow equal rights under the law to take hold. Once individual rights were accepted, in Marshall's mind, then blacks and whites could rise or fall based on their own ability.
Marshall's deep faith in the power of racial integration came out of a middle class black perspective in turn of the century Baltimore. He was the child of an activist black community that had established its own schools and fought for equal rights from the time of the Civil War. His own family, of an interracial background, had been at the forefront of demands by Baltimore blacks for equal treatment. Out of that unique family and city was born Thurgood Marshall, the architect of American race relations in the twentieth century.
After Marshall died in 1993 there was still no authoritative, thorough account of his life and the impact his work had on the nation. The combination of his reclusiveness and his standing in popular culture as an elderly, establishment figure blinded much of the nation to the importance of Marshall's work. Young people were especially uninformed about the critical role Marshall had played in making history.
Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preachings of love and non-violent resistance, and Malcolm X, the fiery street preacher who advocated a bloody overthrow of the system, are both more closely associate in the popular mind and myth with the civil rights struggle. But it was Thurgood Marshall, working through the courts to eradicate the legacy of slavery and destroying the racist segregation system of Jim Crow, who had an even more profound and lasting effect on race relations than either of King or X.
[/size]who ended legal segregation in the United States. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, all of which overturned the 'Separate-but-Equal' apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. It was Marshall who won the most important legal case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. The success of the Brown case sparked the 1960s civil rights movement, led to the increased number of black high school and college graduates and the incredible rise of the black middle-class in both numbers and political power in the second half of the century.
He worked on behalf of black Americans, but built a structure of individual rights that became the cornerstone of protections for all Americans. He succeeded in creating new protections under law for women, children, prisoners, and the homeless. Their greater claim to full citizenship in the republic over the last century can be directly traced to Marshall. Even the American press had Marshall to thank for an expansion of its liberties during the century.
Marshall's lifework, then, literally defined the movement of race relations through the century. He rejected King's peaceful protest as rhetorical fluff that accomplished no permanent change in society. And he rejected Malcolm X's talk of violent revolution and a separate black nation as racist craziness in a multi-racial society.
The key to Marshall's work was his conviction that integration -- and only integration -- would allow equal rights under the law to take hold. Once individual rights were accepted, in Marshall's mind, then blacks and whites could rise or fall based on their own ability.
Marshall's deep faith in the power of racial integration came out of a middle class black perspective in turn of the century Baltimore. He was the child of an activist black community that had established its own schools and fought for equal rights from the time of the Civil War. His own family, of an interracial background, had been at the forefront of demands by Baltimore blacks for equal treatment. Out of that unique family and city was born Thurgood Marshall, the architect of American race relations in the twentieth century.
After Marshall died in 1993 there was still no authoritative, thorough account of his life and the impact his work had on the nation. The combination of his reclusiveness and his standing in popular culture as an elderly, establishment figure blinded much of the nation to the importance of Marshall's work. Young people were especially uninformed about the critical role Marshall had played in making history.
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Originally Posted by ElderWatsonDiggs
Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
Watched a few of his film for class. Dude could rival Denzel and Freeman easily if he lived in this era.
I' am reading these this month from Amazon.
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Originally Posted by ElderWatsonDiggs
Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
Watched a few of his film for class. Dude could rival Denzel and Freeman easily if he lived in this era.
I' am reading these this month from Amazon.
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My hero....weird referring to him as Black "History" cause dude is very much alive, young and active.
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My hero....weird referring to him as Black "History" cause dude is very much alive, young and active.
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Originally Posted by lilpro4u
Originally Posted by ElderWatsonDiggs
Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
Watched a few of his film for class. Dude could rival Denzel and Freeman easily if he lived in this era.
I' am reading these this month from Amazon.
Good stuff!!! Good to see other people realizing just how amazing Paul Robeson was as a person. He isn't as popular as MLK and others mostly because of him being blackballed for his dealings with Russia. If not for his activism, we'd surely have more recognition of this man. But he was way ahead of Denzel and Morgan Freeman. They are just actors, he was everything.
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Originally Posted by lilpro4u
Originally Posted by ElderWatsonDiggs
Paul Robeson...the TRUE Renaissance Man. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers), Pro Athlete/College Athlete (All-America in Football) (Played in the early NFL), Thespian (actor), Lawyer (Columbia Law School), World Traveler(Russia, Spain), Activist.
How this man is not considered one of the best examples of a black man that has ever lived escapes me. He proves that it is possible to be a man of many pursuits.
CJ Dynasty understands why I typed this in this color. Y'all have a good one in the midst.
Watched a few of his film for class. Dude could rival Denzel and Freeman easily if he lived in this era.
I' am reading these this month from Amazon.
Good stuff!!! Good to see other people realizing just how amazing Paul Robeson was as a person. He isn't as popular as MLK and others mostly because of him being blackballed for his dealings with Russia. If not for his activism, we'd surely have more recognition of this man. But he was way ahead of Denzel and Morgan Freeman. They are just actors, he was everything.
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How about the founder of "Black History Month", Dr. Carter G. Woodson....
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How about the founder of "Black History Month", Dr. Carter G. Woodson....
