Black History Month for 2025

HermitHogan said:
I watched the first part of this documentary a few hours ago on Prime Video...

American Coup: Wilmington 1898
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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US. Stoking fears of “***** Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government. Black residents were murdered and thousands were banished. The story of what happened in Wilmington was suppressed for decades until descendants and scholars began to investigate. Today, many of those descendants — Black and white — seek the truth about this intentionally buried history.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-coup-wilmington-1898/
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I watched the rest of this documentary earlier this evening. I'm surprised nobody has made a movie about it. They could focus on the life of the newspaper owner.

There's also the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, which was another despicable event in U.S. history along the same lines.
 
officerripley said:

Decorated pilot Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100​

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To read the article:

Decorated pilot Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100
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Great minds think alike again! I was going to post about this yesterday, but wound up not getting on the computer. World News Tonight (WNT) and GMA paid tribute to him. He was quite handsome when he was younger. God rest his soul in a peaceful paradise for serving this country with dignity and honor. Here is the WNT clip detailing his service and honors:

 
HermitHogan said:
I watched the rest of this documentary earlier this evening. I'm surprised nobody has made a movie about it. They could focus on the life of the newspaper owner.

There's also the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, which was another despicable event in U.S. history along the same lines.
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I posted about the Tulsa Massacre in my reply #15. It was the massacre of what was known as Black Wall Street. Photos included in my post.
Also re: your additional post about cowboys, ranchers and cattlemen. I have heard of the last two terms as well. What you wrote about what distinguishes the two latter from the term cowboy was interesting. I love it when I learn something new everyday. :)
 
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Pepper said:
What a handsome guy he was @OneEyedDiva! Also, I listen to David Muir every week night.
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I absolutely LOVE David Muir. I call him "My David". :D I can tell he has a great heart and soul. And he'll go where the danger is. Also, I love what you wrote about how your parents raised you to be aware of what was going on in this country regarding racism and civil rights. May their souls be forever blessed.
 
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Two High Schoolers Found an ‘Impossible’ Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More​

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"Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a feat mathematicians long thought could not be done." To read the rest of the article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ule-then-they-discovered-nine-more-180985357/
 
officerripley said:

Two High Schoolers Found an ‘Impossible’ Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More​

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"Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a feat mathematicians long thought could not be done." To read the rest of the article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ule-then-they-discovered-nine-more-180985357/
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OMG Officer! Have you been reading my mind?!! This is one of the stories I wanted to be sure to post about. They would be under the heading of future history makers. You've made it easy for me. I know I had saved this article, just would have had to figure out where. I have a ton of bookmarks in Brave and Google. :rolleyes: Great post. I wish the all the success in them world and hope they get recognized for their brilliance.
 
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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.[1] A holder of five patents,[2] she founded the non-profit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C.[3]

Ms. Bath had several patents related to laser surgery for cataracts. She also won several honors awards, all of which are listed near the end of her Wiki page: Patricia Bath - Wikipedia

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Brady's principal legacy was his establishment of strong undergraduate curricula, graduate programs, and fundraising development for four historically black colleges and universities. In conjunction with faculty from the University of Illinois, he established a summer program in infrared spectroscopy, which was open to faculty from all colleges and universities.

Talley-Brady Hall on the Fisk campus is named for Brady and another Fisk alumnus, Thomas Talley.[9]
More about him here: St. Elmo Brady - Wikipedia


Personal life​

 
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HermitHogan said:
It was in the early 20th century during the time of silent movies that cowboys were glamorized. But before then, in Arizona, anyway, (where Tombstone and the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place), the word "cowboy" was sometimes used to describe lawless cattle rustlers, bandits, and outlaws who engaged in theft, smuggling, and stagecoach robbery. This was in contrast to law-abiding ranchers and cattlemen, who preferred the term cattleman or rancher over cowboy. The Clanton and McLaury families, involved in conflicts with the Earp brothers, were among those referred to as "cowboys" in this more criminal sense.
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Thanks for clarifying what you meant to share. 💖
 
I sometimes look up childhood books that I read and loved. One of my favs is The Mystery of the Empty House by Dorothy Sterling. Though I read many books, it was the only book of hers that I read. During my searching, I was amazed to discover that Dorothy Sterling wrote a book titled Mary Jane. I did not think it was the same person who wrote both books but was pleased to learn that it was.

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In this book, Mary Jane had been sheltered from white antagonisms but was suddenly thrust into a world of snobbery, prejudice and suspicion. She was chosen as one of two non-white students for a newly integrated school. She finds out that it is much more difficult than she expected to be the only Black girl amongst the White at Wilson High. At first she bitterly resents the role of ambassador, but slowly becomes less defensive and forms a sound relationship with her classmates based on genuine compatibility.

In this post, I give tribute to
Dorothy Sterling,
1913 - 2008.

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Dorothy Sterling, nee Dannenberg, was born in New York and educated at Wellesley and Barnard Colleges. She was a white, Jewish-American writer, journalist, and historian. She married Philip Sterling (also a writer) and had two children, Peter and Anne. One of her jobs was as a researcher for Life magazine. She left in frustration at a system under which women researchers gave material to men, who wrote the articles. Her first book, Sophie and Her Puppies, was a photo essay and was followed by four others similar to it.

She decided to write a book about women that would empower girls. Her research on Harriet Tubman presented the opportunity to write biographies about Black americans. Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman was published in 1954. Sterling also was a consulting editor on Black history for Firebird Books, Scholastic, Beacon Press, and Doubleday. She was an active member of the NAACP and many of her books focus on Black history, the American Civil Rights Movement, and African American biographies.

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Sterling was the author of more than 35 best-selling books for both children and adults. In addition to mysteries, like the one I read, she wrote non-fiction historical works for children on the origins of the women's and anti-slavery movements. She also wrote about civil rights, segregation and nature. She won several awards, including the Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction (1976).

I was also surprised at how many interesting covers for Mary Jane that I ran across online. Since I can only attach 5 files to this post, I'll share them in a 2nd continuing post. I also read somewhere that her son was arrested at one time during Civil Rights work that he was doing in the south.

Dorothy Sterling's Black History and Civil Rights Books

(1953) United Nations, N. Y.
(1954) Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
(1959) Mary Jane
(1963) Forever Free: The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation
(1964) Lucretia Mott
(1965) Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson
(1969) Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement
(1978) Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls
(1984) We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
(1994) The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
(1994) Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery
(1996) The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885
(1998) Speak Out in Thunder Tones
 
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Tribute To Dorothy Sterling, 1913 - 2008, cont'd from first post.

I was surprised at how many interesting covers for her book, Mary Jane, that I ran across online. I share them below.

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I am proud to have been associated with such a wonderful person, though when I read that one book of hers, when I was a child, I had no idea how remarkable the author was. Read her story in my previous post, #47.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Tragically, Ronald E. McNair was one of the astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster in 1986. I'll never forget that day and lets.....

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More about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair
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I saw his astonishing childhood story in a StoryCorps animation that played during the few minutes after a PBS program that I watched. StoryCorps has some amazing short animations about people's lives. Sharing Ronald McNair's StoryCorp below. It's only 3.17 minutes long.

 

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