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Afro-American Newspapers February 5, 2011 Character Education/Black History Month 1
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2 Character Education/Black History Month February 5, 2011 Afro-American Newspapers
A publication of the
Afro-American Newspapers
The Baltimore
Afro-American Newspaper
2519 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 554-8200
The Washington
Afro-American Newspaper
1917 Benning Road NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 332-0080
John J. Oliver Jr.
Chairman/Publisher
Character Education Project Manager
Diane Hocker
Character Education Coordinator
Takiea Hinton
Project Editors
Zenitha Prince
Talibah Chikwendu
Kristin Gray
Electronic Editor
William Parschalk
Graphic Designer
Denise Dorsey
Character Education
Black History MonthAfrican Americans
and the Civil War4
Character Education Prole: BGE
5Black History Introduction
6Slavery: The Cause of the U.S. Civil War
8Character Education Prole: College Savings Plans of Maryland
9A Look at the American Civil War
10Black Economy Before, During and After the Civil War
12 Character Education Prole: Legg Mason
13 Character Education Prole: Legg Mason
15 Character Education Prole: Verizon
Table of Contents
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My mother has been a source of great inspiraon to me throughout my
life. She is a strong-willed, hardworking, intelligent woman who emi-
grated from Trinidad to the United States in the late 1960s to pursue the
American Dream and build a successful life for herself and her family. She
pushed me to do my best and always stressed the importance of good
grades, being acve in sports, and giving back to the community by par-
cipang in volunteer acvies.
In my early teens, aer watching a movie in which the main black female
character was a high- powered adversing execuve, I knew I wanted
work in that industry. I began to pursue a path that would enable me toshowcase my passion for design, art and markeng. Even before I started
college, I knew I wanted to major in markeng fully intent on making
that my career.
I began my career in the adversing industry as an account supervisor
and began to work on a variety of projects, including managing adver-
sing campaigns from concept to producon. Building on my business
experience and drawing from the skills I learned early in life, I was able to
advance my career to a broader corporate communicaons and market-
ing role when I joined BGE as a markeng associate. Once I moved into a moretradional business environment I was able to not only manage adversing
campaigns, but to also learn the operaonal business side of markeng. This
experience has been transformaonal in terms of expanding my knowledge
base and skills.
Today I am truly enjoying a career that is a great t for my talent and interests.
Looking back, I credit much of my success to working hard in school, pushing
myself to achieve outstanding results, and surrounding myself with posive role
models.
I urge students to think about where they want to be ve, 10 even 20 years
from now and start working toward those goals. Its never too early to begin
making plans for your future, and you can begin by focusing on your strengths
and passions then, each day, make the small choices that you think will
bring you closer to realizing those dreams.
KeishaClarke-EnglishAssociate, MarketingBaltimore Gas & Electric Co.
Start Planning Now
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The American Civil War, still considered one of the deadliest
wars in American history, was fought to preserve the union
of the states. But it had a nobler result, the ending of slavery
and the freeing of millions of slaves.
This change in status, from slave to free, was not something the
Union army and government did alone, but was assisted in great
measure and by a large number of Blacks. These men and womenfought and struggled alongside soldiers to defeat the Confederates.
They did not leave achieving freedom to others, they invested in it
with their lives.
With the sesquicentennial anniversary of events surrounding the
Civil War fast approaching, it is important for African Americans
to properly mark their place in history. From January 2011 to April
2015, Civil War enthusiasts will celebrate 150 years of its historyfrom the declaration of war to the surrender by the Confederates in
Appomattox, Va.
For the 85th annual salute to Black History and as a part of that
kick off, Black History Month focuses on the Civil War period, and
the efforts and commitment of Blacks to the cause.
For week one, in large measure to set the stage for the presenting
the struggle, courage and genius of the Black participants in this
part of our history, we talk about the times leading up to, during and
immediately after the Civil War. The articles address the economy
and politics of the period, which help explain the war, and the role
slavery played.
Celebrating Black History Month
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As the atrocities of slavery became more andmore apparent, the din of abolitionist voicesbecame louder.
Courtesy Images
By Zenitha Prince
AFRO Washington Bureau Chief
By the early 1800s, the degradation and pain of the enslavement of about 4 million
African men, women and children had become a putrid stench that stained the American
psyche.
More and more voices White men and women, Black enslaved and Black free born
rose in protest of the institution of slavery.
By 1804, most of the northern states had abolished slavery, but the South provedtougher territory to conquer. In 1829, David Walker, the son of a free Black mother and
a slave father, ratcheted up the movement into militancy when he published his David
Walkers Appeal, a radical manifesto, based on the language of the Declaration of
Independence, that called for slaves to rebel against their enslavers and sought to instill a
sense of pride within Blacks.
[H]ad I not rather die, or be put to death, than to be a slave to any tyrant, who
takes not only my own, but my wife and childrens lives by the inches? Yea, would
Slavery: The Cause for the U.S. Civil War
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I meet death with avidity far! far!! in preference to such servile
submission to the murderous hands of tyrants ... he wrote.. . .[T]hey want us for their slaves, and think nothing of
murdering us ... therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be
killed ... and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man
who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water
when thirsty, he added.
Walkers Appeal which also protested colonization, a popular
movement to preserve slavery by moving freed Blacks to a colony in
Africa was so controversial that even the outspoken William Lloyd
Garrison objected.
Garrison, a journalist from Massachusetts, joined the Abolitionistmovement at the age of 25. In 1831 he published the rst issue of
his own anti-slavery newspaper, theLiberator, through which in
addition to speaking engagements he advocated for the immediate
emancipation of slaves.
In 1831, Maria Stewart, in the spirit of David Walker, began
to publish articles and make speeches against slavery, promoting
Black nationalism and educational and economic self-sufciency
for Blacks. Her work made her the rst female to speak on political
issues in public and the rst Black female journalist.
At only 23, Frederick Douglass the son of a slave woman and anunknown White man born in February 1818 on Marylands Eastern
Shore gave his rst public speech, describing his harrowing life as
a slave, before a group of abolitionists gathered on the Massachusetts
island of Nantucket. Of the speech, a PBS.org article stated, one
correspondent reported, Flinty hearts were pierced, and cold ones
melted by his eloquence. Thus began the career of the abolitionist
movements greatest orator, who after escaping from bondage
travelled throughout the United States and overseas speaking out
against the horrors of slavery.
The collected efforts of people like Walker, Stewart, Douglass,Underground Railroad organizers Harriet Tubman and Henry
Highland Garnet and countless others formed a cacophony of anti-
slavery sentiment that ushered in the Civil War and eventually the
emancipation of the former enslaved on Dec. 6, 1865, with the
ratication of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Parts of this article were originally published in the AFRO,
Feb. 17, 2007 edition.
Frederick Douglass was born intoslavery 1818 on Marylands EasternShore. After escaping to the North, hebecame the abolitionist movementsgreatest orator.
CourtesyImage/WikimediaCommons
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Compete to Win
John Halaby
I knew I had made it when I was able to aord a house big enough for more
than one bathroom! You see, I grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a home with at
least six people at all mes sharing one bathroom. I have been thinking about
my life a lot recently, and I am not too sure why but perhaps it has something to
do with turning 40 last year and nally realizing that I am geng older. What-
ever the reason, what I know for sure is that I have the good fortune of living a
blessed life - I have a wonderful wife, two delighul children, many incredible
friends, and a great career.
I literally can come up with hundreds of reasons why I have been able to accom-
plish so many of my goals and an equal amount of ideas of what one can do to
posion his or herself for success. However, what Id like to share with you aresuggesons, all centered on the theme of compeon, that have proven bene-
cial to me during my life journey:
1. Love to win there is no beer feeling in the world than working very
hard towards a goal and accomplishing it. I have found this true in
sports, school and most recently in the work environment.
2. Hate to lose I recall crying a lot as a child aer one of my older siblings
beat me in a board game or when my team got crushed in a basketball
game. While I have goen beer at controlling my emoons, it sll
sngs a lot when things do not go as I planned. Never forget the badtaste that losing leaves in your mouth and use it as fuel to drive harder.
3. Embrace pracce if you want to be great at anything it will likely take
a lot of me and eort. There really are no shortcuts in this world. I
recently read a book entled Outliers: The Story of Success that suggests it takes
10,000 hours of pracce to master something youre working towards, so get to
work.
4. Find people who share the same mindset - I have never been the best at any-
thing, but I have always surrounded myself with people who have skills that I
could learn from. Oen these people did not look like me, did not live in myneighborhood, and on the surface most people would not guess that wed get
along. Yet what we shared in common was desire and drive to be the best that
was the e that bound us together.
There have been mes over the years when I have just gone through the
moons and not put my all into whatever the task was, and I must confess
those were some of the worst periods of my life. My love of compeon has
goen me to where I am today, and I have had a blast along the way!
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A Look at the American Civil War
The charge at Fort Wagner by the 54th Massachusettsregiment was led by Col. Robert Shaw, who was killedduring the assault and buried with his troops.
Photo Courtesy National Archives
By Perry Green
AFRO Staff Writer
Its ironic that a nation of citizens would ght against each
other for the sake of establishing unity, but thats exactly
what is sketched in American history. More than 13 major
battles occurred from 1861-1865 during the American Civil
War, killing more than 600,000 soldiers and an undetermined
number of civilians in what remains today as the deadliest
war in American history. But this tragic yet historical event
ultimately preserved and advanced unied federal regulation in the
United States, and served as a catalyst for the ending of the brutal regime
of African-American slavery.
Since establishing its Constitution in 1789, the United States has
governed its individual states under one federal authority, but it was not
until the Civil War that federal authority grew even remotely close to its
current day strength. According to John Huddlestons Killing ground:
Photographs of the Civil War and the Changing American Landscape,
during the rst century of American history, the social and economic
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By George Barnette
AFRO Staff Writer
While the Civil War was effective in ending slavery and bringing
Confederate States back into the Union, it left a lot to be desired in terms
of the future of millions of free African Americans. With no real plan
outlined for the former slaves, the task of assimilating into American
society, especially economically, became a huge challenge.
The rst issue: The places former slaves called home were decimated
by war. The Civil War ravaged the South, including the largely
agricultural, labor-intensive economy that had thrived on free slave labor.
Railroads, factories and plantations were destroyed, effectively ruining any
infrastructure Confederate states had in place to provide nancial stability.
The second issue was that certain promises made to freed slaves were
not kept. For instance, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman issued
Special Field Order No. 15 in January 1865, which would grant each freed
family 40 acres of tillable land on islands and the coast of Georgia. The
news spread quickly as more slaves enlisted in the Union Army, but the
temporary order lasted only one year.
The last issue was that the South was going through a major credit
crisis, much like what America is experiencing now. Before slaves
were freed, plantation owners could use slaves as collateral to borrow
equipment and currency from banks in both the South and North. In
1865, the slaves were no longer collateral you couldnt treat them that
way, said Dylan Penningroth, Ph.D., author ofThe Claims of Kinfolk:
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century
South. This plunged thousands of planters into a crisis situation.
Former slaves had to create ways to feed their families. In many cases, that led to
sharecropping. Sharecropping, overall, was an unfruitful venture for plantation owners and former
slaves, but became necessary in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Black Economy Before, Duringand After the Civil WarSharecropping During ReconstructionProvides Lessons Then and Now
The Southern economy, a largelyagricultural one that depended on thefree labor of enslaved Blacks, wasdecimated after the Civil War.
AFROF
ilePhoto
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Sharecropping was an arrangement, where
plantation owners made deals with former slaves most often slaves they used to own allowing
the freed Blacks to work and live on a parcel of
land in exchange for a share of the crop produced.
Sharecropping was basically using something
that didnt exist as collateral, Penningroth said.
The future crop, which didnt exist for 11 months
of the year, was used for collateral directly with
bankers in New York or local credit agents and
thats what broke the log jam.This credit-based system go the former slaves
started at a decit. While no cash was usually
required to lease any land; it was required for
seed and equipment. Secondly, if the harvest was
below expectations, then families would plunge
further into debt to the landowners. Lastly, if the
landowner had to provide animals, seeds and
equipment, the landowner could charge a higher
rate on the deal.
It was a system clearly benecial tolandowners, who would put anything they could
into the contracts to bind Blacks. Because newly
freed slaves were now being treated as citizens,
the landowners had the backing of American
courts to do whatever they wanted to Blacks and
could do whatever it took to protect that right.
There are stories of Black people, who
had gotten their children into school during the
Reconstruction, telling their sons to read the
contract for them and the White person shootingthese people for having the audacity to read the
contract and try to enforce its terms, Penningroth
said.
Looking back, historians can see how lessons
can be learned from this time period. There are
parallels between the contracts between former
slaves and landowners and citizens and credit
companies today whether they are mortgage
lenders or credit card companies.
We shouldnt think of this as belonging to
the past or some bygone era where we dont have
to worry about this anymore, Penningroth said.
We still have problems of contracts that are
being written where one side fully understands
what the risks are and the other side doesnt or
one side being driven into the contract out of
economic necessity and the other side isnt. I
think there are lessons for us even today.
Sharecropping, an ultimatelyunfruitful arrangement betweenplantation owners and theirformer slaves, was necessaryafter the Civil War.
AFRO File Photo
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Your palms are sweaty, your mouth dry and your heart beang fast.
You usually sit on the sidelines, but today, unexpectedly, you nally
got picked to substute a rookie playing defense. Five minutes
le and LeBron James is charging at you fast so you must think
even faster! Or maybe you are the opening act on Alicia Keys/Jay-
Zs Empire State of Mind tour. Five minutes to curtains, you nd
out that thanks to last minute changes, your rehearsed 30-minute
show must now ll an hour! Or perhaps you, the new kid on the
job, prepared a great presentaon for a meeng that could land
your company the billion-dollar Oprah Winfrey account. However,
the computers crash ve minutes before the meeng! You willeither be lucky or unprepared.
They say that luck is when opportunity meets preparaon. Just
when we have planned for what is expected, life oen throws us
curve balls. The ability to adjust separates the average from the
excellent. So what happens in your crical ve minutes? A suc-
cessfully blocked shot or beer yet, a defensive rebound? Or will
the crowds cheers for LeBrons dunk nd you knocked at on your
back? Maybe Clive Davis is in the audience and a great perfor-
mance could create mind-blowing opportunies. So do you im-provise and wow the crowd or suer through 30 minutes of awk-
wardness, never to be called back? Have you prepared printouts
to quickly fall back on, or do you risk losing a billion-dollar account to a
competor? At such crucial moments, we must prove ourselves.
I rmly believe that on any given day, everything is exactly the way it
should be. All my challenges, disappointments and mistakes are neces-
sary in the path to success, whether personally or professionally as a
Legg Mason internal auditor. Through it all, I have learned that it is great
to be prepared, but even beer to be prepared for the unexpected. The
ability to quickly adjust could permanently pull you o the sidelines and
into major play. So when faced with your lifes curve balls, are you go-
ing to be luckyin ve minutes, or unprepared?
Angela S. Arykot
Lucky in Five Minutes!
Auditor,Internal Audit Department
Legg Mason
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Being comfortable in your own skin means to love your individuality, up-
hold good morals, make your own choices, but also know when to seek
guidance from others.
As a child, I had a lot of great friends that I met at dierent mes and
places. I had friendships that I made in my neighborhood where I grew
up, friendships that I made in my honors classes at school, as well as
friendships that I made playing sports and parcipang in other af-
ter- school acvies. While I did not necessarily consider myself as the
leader or boss of all of my friends, I was not a mindless follower with-
out an opinion. I had a mind of my own and the courage to voice myopinions, even when they were unpopular. Of course, there were mes
when I struggled with making the right decision. And to be honest, I
denitely made a few mistakes along the way. Fortunately, I had two
loving parents that inslled values and provided guidance which helped
me stand up against peer pressure when some of my friends were doing
things that I knew in my heart were wrong.
Some of my childhood friends got so caught up in being cool that they
never nished high school. When it was uncool to get good grades
or take school seriously, I did not worry about what some of my friends
might say. My real friends knew doing well in school was important to
me and they accepted me for who I was and what I valued. I was not ashamed
or embarrassed to be dierent because I had the self-condence to stand up and
defend the things that were important to me.
My hard work and self-condence provided an opportunity for me to aend Mor-
gan State University on a full academic scholarship and graduate with honors. I
went on to connue my educaonal pursuits and received a graduate degree from
American University. I am now an employee of Legg Mason and hold the posionof tax manager.
In closing, self- condence and integrity are two characteriscs that
helped me develop into the person I am today. We all have dierent
qualies, values, and beliefs that make us dierent and special. They
key is to recognize them and have the condence to be yourself.
Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin
Cassandra C.
StevensonTax Manager,
Finance DepartmentLegg Mason
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A Look at the Civil WarContinued from page 9
rights and standards practiced in the
States drastically differed between
the North and South, pitting the two
regions against each other. The North
operated economically under more
of a manufacturing industry, using
raw resources to create nished
goods, while the South depended
on a plantation system, growing
and selling crops such as cotton and
tobacco, which required inexpensive
manual labor. Most southern states
legally imported and enslaved Blacks
to fulll their manual labor needs,
but a majority of northern states
lawfully abolished slavery. The two
cultural systems managed to coexist
under the guidelines of theMissouri
Compromise, an act established
in 1820 by the U.S. Congress that
banned slavery north of the Mason
Dixon Line, yet allowed all states
south of the line to continue slavery.
But as the country began to expand,
adding more states in both regions,
concern grew among both North and
South leaders over whether the new
states would be admitted federally
as either pro-slavery or slave-free.
Both sides feared the potential of
their opposition gaining more states
because whichever side had strength
in numbers would possess an
unequal advantage in political power.
This conict of interest
eventually led to the formation
of the Confederate States of
America (or Confederates) in 1861,
11 southern slave states led by
Jefferson Davis that combined to
declare their secession from the
Union or United States. According
to James McPhersons book This
Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on
the Civil War, southerners believed
it constitutional to govern their
own states independent from
federal union interference. But
the U.S. government, based in the
Northeastern region of the country,
considered secession as an illegal act
of rebellion against federal authority,
and thus a war was born.
Four years of battling occurred
before the Confederates surrendered
their armies, allowing the federal
government to regulate the entire
country free from resistance. The
Union then began its Reconstruction
era, enacting civil rights legislation
such as the continued abolishment
of slavery that was rst established
by President Abraham Lincolns
Emancipation Proclamation
during the Civil War. During the
Reconstruction era of 1865-1877,
the South was governed by the U.S.
military and all former leaders of
the Confederate states were banned
from being reelected into ofce out
of fear that they would try to regroup
and continue practicing slavery.
As a result, the South fell into an
economic slump, while more than 4
million slaves were eventually freed
throughout the nation.
But according to African
and American studies historian
Victorious Hall, ending slavery
wasnt the Unions aim behind
winning the Civil War, but instead a
tool used to win the war.
[Slavery abolishment] was
a military strategy to cripple the
economy of the South and provide
more help to the northern cause,
Hall said, explaining how and why
President Lincoln only offered
freedom to slaves in southern
states that werent in alliance with
the Union. It denitely wasnt a
moral decision because Lincolns
proclamation only freed slaves in
confederate states initially. Lincoln
didnt want to upset the support of
Border States such as Maryland,
West Virginia, Delaware and
Missouri, so initially they were able
to keep their 800,000 combined
slaves.
Hall notes that the Lincoln and
other Union leaders were more
concerned with gaining full control
of the states and ending slavery
became their most effective weapon
in winning the war. Once slaves
heard word of the Emancipation
Proclamation, they escaped north,
destroying the Confederates
economically, Hall said, So
basically Blacks were used as pawns
to defeat the South.
In this illustration coloredtroops have just captureda Confederate gun duringthe Civil War. In many ofthe history books, a stu-dent might receive the im-pression that the coloredman was distinguished
by his absence during thewar which brought abouthis release from slavery.
AFRO
File
Image
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My name is Aaron Morris, and I am a network manager at Verizonwith responsibilies for eld operaons in Washington, D.C. I have
180 people who report to me and they handle customer installaon
and repair telephone service.
The greatest gi a person can give themselves is to be equipped
with as many tools as possible to be included in any process. More
specically, understanding perseverance is extremely important
as many companies, schools, programs, or any procedure whichinvolves an evaluaon process, looks for anything to exclude bright,
young, passionate, and energec individuals from a process.
However, having educaon is a remedy for omission, parcular as
gaining opportunies in todays environment has become more
compeve. Ive endured and experienced some of those obstacles
but, fortunately, the power of educaon has empowered and pro-
pelled me to arculate aspects pertaining to business, even if later
in life.
I graduated summa cum laude from the College of Notre Dame in
Maryland. I will nish course work to obtain my masters degree in
administraon from Loyola University in February of 2011. I am a member of
the Maryland Business Roundtable for Educaon, which is a non-prot orga-
nizaon supporng educaon reform and student achievement in Maryland.
Yes, educaon is important to me, so as far as those characteriscs which are
needed to be successful. It starts with passion, drive, commitment, resil-iency, and then ends with work ethic and honesty. I believe honesty and
hard work will provide the comforts we all seek in life. Finally, being con-
scious regarding the decisions you make will enable you to obtain wisdom
with your direcon.
Be Equipped for Success
Aaron Morris
Network ManagerVerizon
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Afro-American NewspapersCharacter Education Essay Contest
T
he Afro-American Newspapers Character Education
Contest was launched 14 years ago to promote
positive character development among the nations
leaders of tomorrow our youth.We believe good character has to be taught and
modeled, which is why we have chosen to prole local corporate
professionals and business leaders in our publication.
Te featured individuals, time and time again, incorporate positive
character traits such as honesty, respect, responsibility, courage
and perseverance in their everyday lives, proving to be positive role
models in their community.
For the contest, students are asked to read the featured proles
and choose the one that inspires them most to incorporate positive
character traits in their own lives. Students should then write an essay
that best explains why they chose the article and how they plan to use
what theyve learned to shape their future.
Essays should be between two and four pages in length (double-spaced) and must be typed.
Essays will be judged on neatness, grammar, punctuation and the
students ability to give insight on what they learned from the prole.
Judges are impartial volunteers and may include teachers, sta from
local colleges and universities and the editorial sta at theAFRO.
For more information concerning the Afro-American Newspapers
Character Education Contest, please contact: Diane Hocker,
410-554-8243.
Deadline: April 8, 2011Mail typed essays to
:Diane Hocker Afro-American Newspapers2519 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Md. 21218
or e-mail them to:
No faxes will be accepted
Cash prizes to be awarded
Eighth-Graders Only