The reality and pitfalls of being Black in America –

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The reality and pitfalls of being Black in America –

My family and friends, we experience racial discrimination every day in all aspects of life, including education, employment, affordable housing, the criminal justice system, the banking system when it comes to getting grants and loans and affordable medical care.

This, my family and friends, should motivate us even more to vote today and pool our resources and support each other as a race of people to have some political power and economic power to be more self-sufficient and independent and stop relying on White folks but rely on God, if you believe.

Family and friends begin doing what you want to do now.

It never did and never will…”

Today, family and friends, we are witnessing firsthand, the reality and pitfalls of life being Black in America and the world.

So, my family and friends, stay in prayer, stay healthy and stay safe.

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Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972

THE BLACK AGENDA

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Lorraine Hansberry

The granddaughter of a freed slave, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, to a successful real estate broker and a school teacher who resided in Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by its inhabitants but the former refused to

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19

1930

Born: Charles Town, West VirginiaDied: 1/24/1885 Wilberforce, OhioMartin Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School.Awards

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Marjorie Joyner

Marjorie Stewart Joyner was born in Monterey, Virginia on October 24, 1896, the granddaughter of a slave and a slave-owner. In 1912, an eager Marjorie moved to Chicago, Illinois to pursue a career in cosmetology. She enrolled in the A.B. Molar Beauty School and in 1916 became the first Black women

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26

2012

Spingarn Medal: Mary B.Talbert

Spingarn Medal awarded to Mary B. Talbert, former president of the National Association of Colored Women, for service to Black women and for restoration of the Frederick Douglas home.

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Nov

20

1922

Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor (1819-1876)

Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield had little reason to dream of the life that would eventually become her own. Because of a series of unlikely circumstances and her own relentless efforts she would eventually become known as the first African American singer

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Mar

31

1876

Social Movement

April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP

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Apr

3

1962

Garnet, Henry Highland

Garnet, Henry Highland gär´nĭt [key], 1815–82, American abolitionist clergyman, b. Kent co., Md. Born a slave, he escaped in 1824 and was educated at the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, N.Y. He was an eloquent speaker, but his radicalism, particularly in a speech at Buffalo in 1843, in which he

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George Murray was, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable citizens of his time. A teacher, farmer, land developer and federal customs inspector, the former slave would go on to become a United States Congressman and a noted

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26

2012

Truth, Sojourner, Isabella Baumfree (ca. 1791-1883)

Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist, women’s rights activist, emancipated slave and itinerant evangelist, became arguably the most well-known 19th Century African American woman. Born around 1791, Isabella (her birth name) was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of Colonel Ardinburgh

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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

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African Baptist Church [Boston] (1805- )

Officially founded on August 8, 1805 by the Reverend Thomas Paul, The African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in Massachusetts. The first meeting of the congregants took place around 1800. Thomas Paul and Scipio Dalton formed the African Baptist Church after a group of black congregants

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8

1805

North Carolina Legislature adjourns

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Feb

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1895

Whitfield, James Monroe (1822-1871)

James Monroe Whitfield, a black abolitionist and colonizationist, was born on April 10, 1822 in New Hampshire. Little is known about his early life except that he was a descendant of Ann Paul, the sister of prominent black clergyman Thomas Paul. Whitfield had little formal education. Nonetheless

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Apr

23

1871

Frederick Douglass

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Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement

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Smith, James McCune (1813-1865)

Although many twenty-first century readers are aware of his work only through his introduction to Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, Dr. James McCune Smith was one of the most broadly accomplished black intellectuals and activists in antebellum America. Born in New York on April

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Black and White Women Abolitionists

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Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Campaign

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Daniel Hale Williams

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Dec

15

1864

(1849) Frederick Douglass, “On Mexico”

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1849

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

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18

1877

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The first NBA Black Assistant Coach and first Black chief scout, Earl Lloyd, bec

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Oct

21

1950

Running for President: George Edwin Taylor, 1904

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