This week's open threads gave some detailed background on several black history facts. On this last day of Black History Month, I am going to highlight a current NFL player's ancestor's fight against slavery. When all else failed, black mobs sometimes prevented the capture of fugitives As kidnappers captured free and fugitive Northern blacks, intent on enslaving them, … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Black History Facts
Wednesday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Early African-American elites traveled and lived abroad extensively... Pioneering African-Americans of the 18th and 19th centuries traveled and lived abroad extensively, even in Africa. They traveled for education, recreation, professional employment and political advocacy, enjoying concourse with a wide variety of cultures and supporters. Of course many blacks … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Friday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates the night James Brown saved Boston
Happy Friday POU! Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death could not have been more devastating to African American communities across the country hoping to see the civil rights leader live to build on the successes of the movement. Despite King’s painfully prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech the day before his assassination in Memphis Tennessee, most people hoped … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates the night James Brown saved Boston
Saturday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
Concluding this week's theme, here are the last 5 facts... FACT 1:In 1829, David Walker of Boston publishes An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World which calls for a slave uprising in the South. The fiery-militant David Walker was born on September 28, 1785, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father was an enslaved African who died a few months before his son’s … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
Friday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
It's Friday, the end of the work week and the start of the weekend. This week's open threads highlighted little known or interesting black history facts in celebration of black history month. FACT 1: In 1804, Lemuel Haynes is the first African American to receive an honorary degree in U.S. history when Middlebury College awards him a Master's Degree at its second … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts