Keeping It Real: Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Color Purple, was born in Eatonton, GA, on Feb. 9th in 1944.
Architect Paul Williams mastered the art of drawing upside down so that he could sit across from — not next to — white clients who didn’t want to sit side-by-side with a black person.
Nelson R. Mandela, South Africa's Black nationalist leader, was released from prison after 27 years on Feb. 11th in 1990. Four years after his release, he was elected President of South Africa.
The NAACP was founded Feb. 12th in 1909 after riots in Springfield, IL. With W.E.B Du Bois as one of its chief organizers, the group originally fought to abolish forced segregation and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Lawyer Macon Bolling Allen was the first black American Justice of the Peace and the first African-American licensed to practice law in the U.S.
Frederick Augustus Douglass, orator, activist and abolitionist , was born a slave in Tuckahoe, MD, on Feb. 14th in 1817. Douglass was commemorated on a US postage stamp issued on his birthday 150 years later.
and the list goes on and on and on....Ya Dig?..
Architect Paul Williams mastered the art of drawing upside down so that he could sit across from — not next to — white clients who didn’t want to sit side-by-side with a black person.
Nelson R. Mandela, South Africa's Black nationalist leader, was released from prison after 27 years on Feb. 11th in 1990. Four years after his release, he was elected President of South Africa.
The NAACP was founded Feb. 12th in 1909 after riots in Springfield, IL. With W.E.B Du Bois as one of its chief organizers, the group originally fought to abolish forced segregation and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Lawyer Macon Bolling Allen was the first black American Justice of the Peace and the first African-American licensed to practice law in the U.S.
Frederick Augustus Douglass, orator, activist and abolitionist , was born a slave in Tuckahoe, MD, on Feb. 14th in 1817. Douglass was commemorated on a US postage stamp issued on his birthday 150 years later.
and the list goes on and on and on....Ya Dig?..
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