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Celebrating Black History 365

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A Salute to Black History

Understanding Wisdom And FOREVER Appreciating The Past

Dr. Alice Tyler Milton

~ Associate Dean of Business and Information Technologies Division ~ ~ Acting Director of the Small Business Center ~

~ College Webmaster/BlackBoard Administrator ~ Wisdom may be defined as a practical outlook to the problems of life. Wise menand women of our past and present made many sacrifices and used their lifeexperiences to help strengthened our confidence and abilities in ourselves. Theirlife experiences have always been placed into words to conform our thoughts aswe present ourselves to the future generation. Adhering and understanding thewords help us to progress with greater opportunities to success. Words of wisdomhave always had the capacity to motivate, expound, and discipline the minds oflisteners. Thurman Arnold stated “Unhappy is a people that has run out of words todescribe what is going on.” Moreover, wisdom is a flourishing fountain of virtue, respect, self-assurance, and self-respect. Cultural understanding helps to nourish and keep the vision alive—nomatter what generation. History has shown that the most successful leaders arethose who have learned to draw upon our heritage of thought and experience.Booker T. Washington believed that the story of his life was a typical Americansuccess story, and he redefined "success" to make it so. Because of the manywonderful accomplishments of the past that made our present and future brighter,we must NEVER forget the history of all African Americans of our past--no mattertheir disposition--they are still part of the times gone by. Below are links, quotes, photos, etc. (click for information) that will enrich your

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Know Your Historical Contributions -- SOME Influential Blacks

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knowledge of the past and present and the selfless contributions made by just aFEW of the MANY great Black distinguished individuals that have had a greatimpact on our culture, paved the way for others to follow in that particular vocation,or contributions have taught us insights to beliefs, life, morals, etc. We can neversay good-bye to yesterday, for yesterday--our past, made it possible for our present and future . . .











18th annual Patricia Roberts Harris Lecture - Senator Edward Brooke III: HU Stream - 2007



First Two Black NFL Coaches To Compete At The Super Bowl

Lovie Smith - Chicago Bears Tony Dungy - Indianapolis Colts Winner of 2007 Super Bowl

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First Black Male American Idol - Birmingham's Own: Ruben Studdard

Ruben Web Site

More . . . Ruben

First Black Female American Idol: Fantasia Barrino

Fantasia's Web Site

New Face: Jennifer Hudson - Past American Idol and Dream Girls



Jennifer's Website

More . . . Jennifer

A Salute to Coretta Scott King - A Virtuous Woman

A Salute to Martin Luther King

Martin and Coretta King's First Grandchild

Yolanda Renee King - Born May 25, 2008 Article I Article II

A Salute To Black Gospel

Black Entertainers - A Tribute to Past and Present

A Salute to Ray Charles

A Salute to the First Black Nurses



Inventors of Yesterday - A Salute of HBCUs The United Negro College Fund

Milestones in African American Education

The HBCUs in the United States - Web Sites

African American Greek Organizations

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BLACKamerica.com

Tavis Smiley Talks



The Association for the Study of African American Life and History

African American News

African American Students News

African American Magazines - Ebony and Jet

African American Magazine - Essence

The Murder of Emmitt Louis Till - Place: Money, Mississippi

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First Totally Black Owned Search Engine

The Sixteenth Street Bombing - Place: Birmingham, Alabama

Apollo Theater - Many Entertainers Were Discovered



Points Theatre - Empowerment Through Edutainment -The famous historian, Arnold Toynbee, once commented, "When we classify mankind by color, the only primary race that has not made a creative contribution to any civilization is the Black race." For 15 years and 2,500 performances, "1001 Inventions" has been an unusually funny antidote for this gross misconception.

Martin Luther King's Six Principles of Nonviolence

Principle One Nonviolence is a Way of Life for Courageous People Principle Two The Beloved Community is the Goal Principle Three Attack Forces of Evil, Not Persons doing Evil Principle Four Accept Suffering without Retaliation for the Sake of the Cause Principle Five Avoid Internal Violence of the Spirit as well as External Physical Violence Principle Six The Universe is on the side of Justice

Become A Member Of: BLACK AMERICA WEB

Quick Links Piney Woods Country Life School, Mississippi African American Web Connections

The Internet African American History Challenge Black News

Civil Rights Movement CNN Black History

Black Facts Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Exploring African-American History Condoleezza RiceFirst Totally Black Owned Search Engine Philly Celebrating Black HistoryA Black History Treasure Hunt African American PoetryBlack History Calendar Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentConfederate Flag Controversy The Walk in Selma, AlabamaAT & T Black History History and HeritageDid You Know . . . Social Studies School ServiceBlack History Facts Celebrate Black History MonthAfrica's Most Honored Scientist and Inventor Biography Celebrates Black History

Black History Sojourner TruthAtlantic Monthly--Black History Milestones in African-American EducationLearning Network/Black History African American InventorsCyndi's List of Genealogy Sites Civil Rights Institute - Birmingham AlabamaMaya Angelou--Biography/Poems African-Americans By The Number

Seacoast Black History HBCU Grants/Scholarships/Research/Ivy League Schools, etc.

African-American History Challenge Black History HotlistBlack History.Com Black History for KidsBlack Sports Medal of Honor for Extraordinary Heroism



Famous Quotes . . .

Famous Quotes ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Famous Quotes ~ Tavis Smiley - "Remember the five "B's":

~ BE READY When your opportunity comes.

~ BE REAL You will never be a success trying to transcend who you are. You have to embrace



yourself, including your Blackness.

~ BE SMART Learn to think critically for yourself.

~ BE A SERVANT

Your generation, in many respects has it all twisted, it ain't about the ice and the bling-bling, it's about being a servant. Cornel West put it this way; you can't lead the people if you don't love the people. And you can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

~ BE HUMBLE Because the toes you step on today may be connected to the behind you have to kiss tomorrow."

Famous Quotes

SUSAN L. TAYLOR --"In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change--breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place."

MADAME C. J.WALKER -- "I had to make my own living andmy own opportunity--Don't sit down and waitfor the opportunities tocome; you have to get upand make them."

DR. CHARLES H. EPPS, JR. (Howard University) -- “I don’t consider myself brilliant, but I learned that I could work as hard as anybody to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I was willing to go without the latest jacket, sneakers or whatever. It is more important TO GET A GOOD EDUCATION.”

COLIN POWELL -- "There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence."

MUHAMMAD ALI --"Champions aren't made ingyms. Champions aremade from something theyhave deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision.They have to have last-minute stamina, they haveto be a little faster, theyhave to have the skill, andthe will. But the will mustbe stronger than the skill."

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER--"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these."

REV. JESSE JACKSON -- We must turn to each other and NOT on each other."

ALICE WALKER -- "No person is your friend whodemands your silence, ordenies your right to grow."

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -- "One cannot hold another down in the ditch without staying down in the ditch with him."



JUDITH JAMISON --"Excellence is the name of the game no matter what color or what country you're from. If you are the best at what you're doing, then you have my admiration and respect."

BOOKER T.WASHINGTON-- "Nothing ever comes toone, that is worth having,except as a result of hardwork."

More African American Quotes

African Americans Entertainers . . .

Aaliyah Al Green Jeffrey OsborneAshford and Simpson Fred Hammond Wilson PickettYolanda Adams Steve Harvey The PlattersLouis Armstrong Isaac Hayes Leontyne PricePearl Bailey Jimi Hendrix Lou RawlsAnita Baker Z. Z. Hill Otis ReddingBar-Kays Billie Holliday Minnie RippertonBe Be Winans Lena Horne Marvin SappBlack Gospels Cissy Houston ShaqBobby Blue Bland Whitney Houston SinbadJames Brown The Isley Brothers Smokey Robinson Shirley Caesar Mahalia Jackson Micah StampleyKurt Carr Michael Jackson The Staples SingersRay Charles The Jackson 5 Johnny TaylorCe Ce Winans Etta James KoKo TaylorChubby Checker Alicia Keys TemptationsThe Clark Sisters Chaka Khan Carolyn TraylorCotton Club B. B. King Chris TuckerNatalie Cole Gladys Knight Tina TurnerNat King Cole Evelyn "Champagne" King Luther Vandross Commodores Beyonce' Knowles Sarah VaughanSam Cooke Pattie LaBelle Hezekiah WalkerAndrae Crouch Queen Latifah Dionne WarrickSammy Davis Jr. Gerald Levert Ethel WatersFats Domino Left Eye Lopes The WhispersEarth, Wind, and Fire Malaco Records Barry WhiteEbonys Hattie McDaniels The Williams BrothersDuke Ellington Mary Mary Flip WilsonMissy Elliott Mo'Nique Jackie WilsonAretha Franklin Dorothy Moore Vickie WinansKirk Franklin Motown Stevie WonderMarvin Gaye Smokie Norful Alfre WoodardLarry Graham The Ojays Timothy Wright ETC . . .



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