by LaKisha | Feb 2, 2020 | Black History
The unrest around slavery didn’t start with the Civil War. It actually started in 1688 with the Quakers who were living in Germantown. The Quakers, known as The Society of Friends, have a long history of abolition. The Quakers were unaccustomed to slavery...
by LaKisha | Feb 1, 2020 | Black History
On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old high school student attending Booker T. Washington High School named Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. She, not Rosa Parks, was the first to refuse her seat to a...
by LaKisha | Feb 1, 2020 | Black History
Black History Month is an annual celebration started by Carter G. Woodson, a historian and one of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). He initially decided that the second week of February would be “Negro History...
by LaKisha | Feb 13, 2019 | Black History
1670 Zipporah Potter Atkins – The first free African American woman to own land in Boston 1760 Jupiter Hammon – First African American published author; poem “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries” 1768 Wentworth Cheswell –...
by LaKisha | Feb 9, 2019 | Black History
We know him at the booming voice of Mufasa in the Lion King or Star War’s Darth Vader, but James Earl Jones didn’t always speak this way. Born in rural Mississipi in 1931, he had a rough start on life. His father left the family to become a prizefighter...
by LaKisha | Feb 6, 2019 | Black History
The History of Black History Black History Month is an annual celebration that is observed in Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom as well as the United States. We celebrate it in February along with Canada. Ireland, the Netherlands and Ireland...
