Self-educated, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, dedicated to promoting African-Americans and resettlement in Africa. In the United States he launched several businesses to promote a separate black nation. After he was convicted of mail fraud and deported back to Jamaica, he continued his work for black repatriation to Africa. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the last of 11 children born to Marcus Garvey, Sr. and Sarah Jane Richards. His father was a stone mason, and his mother a domestic worker and farmer.
King attended a segregated public school in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen and received his B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College; a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. In June 1953 Martin married Coretta Scott and had four kids. In 1954 King became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time Rosa Parks was arrested for failure to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus.
I think it was a very sad and memorable moment for Americans at that time. Unique Facts John F. Kennedy has some odd coinsidences with Abreham Lincoln and their assassinations. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were elected into congress exactly 100 years from eachother, then were both elected into presidency 100 years from eachother. Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theatre. Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
W.E.B. DUBOIS Approaches and Philosophy to African American History “It behooves the United States…in the interest both of scientific truth and of future social reform, carefully to study such chapters of her history as that of the suppression of the slave-trade. The most obvious question which this study suggests is: How far in a State can a recognized moral wrong safely be compromised?” W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Great Barrington, a predominately-white town where Du Bois’ mothers family was part of the very small free black population having long owned land in the state.
It will also include awards both received and any literature they published. It will summarize their lives and give a brief acknowledgement to the impact made on the author’s life. Social Work Pioneers Introduction of Pioneer George Edmund Haynes was born in 1880 of African American decent, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was the son of Louis and Mattie Haynes, a laborer and a domestic servant, respectively. Haynes received his BA form Nashville, Tennessee’s, Fisk University in 1903.
Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia. Booker was born into slavery in a hut. Washington being born out of slavery a self educated man until he would attend Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. Booker T. Washington would see things different and bring an approach that would manipulate the masses of whites. Washington’s views on "racial progress" were that offered black acquiescence in disenfranchisement and social segregation if whites would back the idea of black progress in education, agriculture, and economics.
By this time American society had created not only a new social group, which was “African American”, but also a new sociological issue, which was called slavery. So it had become normality for people of the social group called “white or Caucasian” to
The youth wing, formed in 1940 was a more militant group with an aggressive policy. Its main members included Walter Sissulu and Oliver Tambo. In a dawn raid in December 1956, Mandela along with 156 other people were arrested and accused of high treason. The trial did not end until 1961 after the Sharpeville massacre; all the defendants were found not guilty. The events at Sharpeville made the South African government more intransigent towards the apartheid even with the world looking at South Africa.
Negro History Week grew in popularity throughout the following decades, with mayors across the United States endorsing it as a holiday. [1] In 1976, the federal government acknowledged the expansion of Black History Week to Black History Month by the leaders of the Black United Students at Kent State University in February of 1969. The first celebration of Black History Month occurred at Kent State in February of 1970. [5] Six years later during the bicentennial, the expansion of Negro History Week to Black History Month was recognized by the U.S. government. Gerald Ford spoke in regards to this, urging Americans to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.
Thomas Jennings 1791-1856 Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, was the first African American to be given a patent, on March 3, 1821. Thomas Jennings was awarded his patent for a dry cleaning process (U.S. patent 3306x). At the time, he was operating a dry cleaning business in New York City, and was heavily involved in abolitionist activities. The patent was for a dry-cleaning process called "dry scouring", and he used the initial money he earned from it to purchase freedom from slavery for his family. In 1831, Thomas Jennings became assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, PA. Thomas Jennings was a free man when he took out his patent, otherwise he might have had trouble obtaining the patent in his name.