Celebrating African- American History

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Spurred by the popular American song:Every race has a flag but the coon , Marcus Mosiah Garvey created a flag of RedBlack(Black) Green as a symbol of African Nationhood for all black people. A flag he unveiled to the world at the first international convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), On August 13,1920. (More commonly known as the "Black Pride" flag Red represents : The color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and liberty Black represents: The color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong Green represents: The luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland

Quotes and Proverbs... When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last! -Martin Luther King Jr. If there is no struggle, there is no progress- Frederick Douglass If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started-Marcus Garvey You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them-Michael Jordan It's not what you call us, but what we answer to that matters-Djuka When a man angers you, he conquers you- Toni Morrison Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned- Charles W. Chesnutt I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone- Bill Cosby The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis-Thurgood Marshall After Distress, Solace- Swahili Proverb Don't Hate- it's too big a burden to bear- Martin Luther King Sr. Believe in Life- W.E.B DuBois When I discover who I am, I'll be free- Ralph Ellison We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves- Malcolm X Black Inventors... Marjorie Joyner (1896-1994): First African-American Patent Holder Mae Jemison(b. 1957): First African-American woman to travel to space Sambo Jackson: Inventor of mordern Ice Cream Benjamin Banneker(1731-1806): Astronomer, Mathmetician, Farmer, Surveyor George Washington Carver(1865-1943): Among his many inventions, George Washington Carver turned the devastated state of farming around after the civil war by altering depleting crops with soil enriching crops like,peanuts, peas, soybeans, peacans and sweet potatoes Dr. Charles Richard Drew: The first person to develop the blood bank Garrett Morgan: He invented the gas mask and the automatic traffic signal. Joseph Winters: Patented the fire escape ladder. Dr. Carter G. Woodson: Every year February is celebrated as Black History Month, which was originally established as Negro History Week in 1926 by the noted African American scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The week became the month of February in 1976.