Black history month. - The people that made a difference.

[SolidSnake76]

i gonna start a little game and test ur knowelge. lets see who could talk about as many people as they can who made a difference in todays world in one month.

i go first.

Charles Drew.

Charles drew was a black surgeon to find a way how to make blood transfusion more safe. by separating the plasma, red blood cells, white blood cell and platelets, he relized the cells were what were making people sick and dying. born in 1904, he was raised in washington D.C., near the potomac river. for his work in blood research, he made a huge difference in the medical fields and thanks to his work, blood transfusions are more safer.

NEXT!

[bloodpack]

tell me if albert einstein didnt make a difference
ahhhh...the atomic age, the magic of E=mc2
and the terror it brought in WWII

[SBYRD5]

I commend you Snake...great topic...


George Washington Carver

He discovered atleast a 100 ways to use peanuts.He was a plant scientist basicly.He discovered by planting peanuts you could return minerals to not so managable soil.He is my favorite Person in Black history.Without him I would never be able to eat a PB and J Sandwitch.He is a great man.

[SolidSnake76]

tell me if albert einstein didnt make a difference
ahhhh...the atomic age, the magic of E=mc2
and the terror it brought in WWII
albert enstien is white.

and thx sby.

[EYO]

hmmm........
i pick micheal jakson because he da first black dude to change color and REALLY made a BIG difference and ders
micheal jordan a *legend* in basketball
........Uhhhh?/?/ cant think of any else

[bloodpack]

sorry, dunno some black americans coz im not american
oh well, how bout martin luther king?

[SolidSnake76]

hmmm........
i pick micheal jakson because he da first black dude to change color and REALLY made a BIG difference and ders
micheal jordan a *legend* in basketball
........Uhhhh?/?/ cant think of any else
micheal jackson is more twisted than that woman who put her dog in the microwave for 5mins.

and jordan, the greatest basketball player who lived.

[MasterX05]

adding on to what Sbyrd said George Washintnon Carver research developed 325 products from peanut, 108 applications for sweet potatoes, and 75 products derived from pecans. He also invented Cheese,vanshing cream, flour, ink, shampoo, buttermilk, shiving cream and many more things. :biggrin:

[SolidSnake76]

my turn.

Langston Hughes

he was well know in the harlem renaissance as a poetic work. born on feb 1 1902 in harlem, manhattan, his first book was 'the weary blues' published in 1926. that book electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in america. his other works are 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'Still Here', 'Song of a dark girl', 'montage of a dream deffered', and 'refuge in america'. died in 1967, his work is still honored and thanks to him, there are more famous black writers, like mya angelo.

[coolplayer2K2]

my turn


Tmyapp

started his career in high school and made his first game then on 2001 a mirical heppen he made the best online game on earth wich is free called "X-men Vs. Street Fighter.
and it gets better and better :corky:

[PSYCHO]

is tmyapp black oh

[coolplayer2K2]

i have no idea

[machine1]

im not black im hispanic.. part puerto rican part belizean

any way shout out to all the black peps up in here... holla

[G_GUNDAM]

holla back machine!!!!!! ;)

[SolidSnake76]

my turn


Tmyapp

started his career in high school and made his first game then on 2001 a mirical heppen he made the best online game on earth wich is free called "X-men Vs. Street Fighter.
and it gets better and better :corky:
what difference did he make in other people lives? all he did was create a online fighting game and he not well known around the entire world. some new people that join this game dont even know who he is. i dont een think he black, no offense tmy.

why do i put up with u pple/ anyway, my turn.

Milton L. Olive 3

otherwise known as a hero in the vietnam war. born in the south side of chicago in 1946, he joined the army at age 17. he reported to the fort knox U.S army training center on august 17th. he was also at fort sill in oaklahoma at age 18, fort polk and fort benning. war time came and he andhis platoon were ordered into the jungle around phu cuong to take part in a search and destroy operation. the platoon came under heavy fire and were pinned down. a grenade fell around him and four other soldiers. he amde the ultimate sacrifice to save his fellow soldiers: grabing the grenade in his hands and falling on it to absorb the blast with his own body.

six months later, his parents were joined by the two men he saved and at the white house, president johnson awarded the medal of honor. "our son gave his last full measure of devotion on an international battlefield 10,000 miles away from home." his father wrote. johnson replied "on the sacrifices of men who died for thier country and their comrades our freedom has been built."

[SolidSnake76]

c'mon pple. put down al sharpton for all i care. i go again.

ted poston

a reporter, pioneer journalist and editor. born in 1907, he was fasinated with newspapers as a child and was determined that he would spend his life working for a big city paper. he attended booker t washington colored grammar school and graduated from tenesse agricultural and industrial college in nashville. he became a reporter for NY contender, pittsburg courier and NY amsterdam news. the NY post hired poston after WW2, it was there he headed down south and gathered information for stories reguarding racial segration, murders and lynching of blacks. this action made him famous, as he won awards for his documentry on the south. he died in 1974, and in 1986, more than 1600 minoriy journalists attended the national association of black journalist convention in dallas, their presence spearheaded by the memory of poston.

am i the only one thats gonna do this? u can put wanye brady down, i dont care.

[blossom]

arrrrrggg this is like home work lol


MADAM CJ WALKER


Madam Cj. Walker was born with the name Sarah Breedlove on December 23,

1867 on a Louisiana plantation, Walker was the daughter of former slaves but she

always dreamed of becoming more than just a slave. Because of her dedication

Walker transformed herself from an uneducated farm worker into of the twentieth

century's most successful women entrepreneurs.

After being orphaned at age seven, Walker and her older sister, Louvenia, survived

by working in the cotton fields of Delta and nearby Vicksburg, Mississippi. At 14

C.J. married a man named Moses McWilliams to escape abuse from her cruel

brother-in-law, Jesse Powell.

Her only daughter, Lelia was born on June 6, 1885. When her husband died two

years later, she moved to St. Louis to work with her four brothers who worked as

barbers. Working for as little as $1.50 a day, Walker managed to save enough

money to educate her daughter.

During the 1890s, C.J. began to suffer from a scalp condition that caused her to lose

most of her hair. She experimented with many homemade remedies and store-

bought products including those made by Annie Malone, another black woman

entrepreneur. In 1905 Sarah moved to Denver as a sales agent for Malone, then

married her third husband his name was Charles Joseph Walker, a St. Louis

newspaperman. After changing her name to Madam C. J. Walker, she started her

own business and began selling Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp

conditioning and healing formula, which she said had been revealed to her in a

dream. Although many thought it to be true Walker did NOT invent the

straightening comb, this is only a misconception.

Later to promote her products, C.J. Walker traveled for a year and a half on a trip

throughout the heavily black South and Southeast, selling her products door to

door, demonstrating her scalp treatments in churches and inns, and creating a sales

pitch for her products. In 1908, she temporarily moved her base to Pittsburgh where

she opened Lelia College to train others her styling secrets and techniques.

By early 1910, Walker had moved to Indianapolis, which was then the nation's

largest inland manufacturing center, where she built a factory, hair and manicure

salon and another training school. Less than a year after she arrived, Walker made

national headlines in the black press when she donated $1,000 to the building fund

of the "colored" YMCA in Indianapolis.

In 1913, while Walker traveled to Central America and the Caribbean to expand

her business, her daughter A'Lelia, moved into a new townhouse in Harlem.

Walker herself moved to New York in 1916, leaving the day-to-day operations of the

Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis to Ransom and Alice

Kelly, her factory forelady and a former school teacher. She continued to watch the

business and to run the New York office. Once in Harlem, she became involved in

Harlem's social and political life, especially the NAACP's anti-lynching movement

in which she contributed $5,000.

In July 1917, when a white mob murdered more than three dozen blacks in East St.

Louis, Illinois, Walker joined a group of Harlem leaders who visited the White

House to present a petition in federal anti-lynching legislation.

Also as her business continued to grow, Walker organized her agents into local and

state clubs. Her Madam C. J. Walker Hair Culturists Union of America convention

in Philadelphia in 1917 was one of the first national meetings of businesswomen in

the country. Walker used the gathering to reward her agents for their business

success, and to encourage their political acts as well

Walker died 1919 but by the time she died at her estate in New York, she had

helped create the role of the

20th Century, self-made American businesswoman; established herself as a pioneer

of the modern black hair-care and cosmetics industry and set standards in the

African-American community for community involvement in charities.

Walker that perseverance, faith in herself and in God, quality products and honest

business dealings were the elements and strategies she used to gain her important

status as an entrepreneurs.

Even after death Walkers legacy lives on. Madame Walker Theatre Center is

internationally known as a place where arts and

cultural heritage flourish. The Center is dedicated to

nurturing and celebrating the arts from an African-American perspective for cross-

cultural appreciation.

Constructed in 1927, the Madame Walker Theatre Center is a National Historic

Landmark built in tribute to its namesake, Madam C.J. Walker. The Center

includes the 350-person Casino Ballroom, often used for private celebrations and

corporate gatherings, and the 944 seat African theatre where beautiful

performances are presented to arts lovers throughout the community.



GIRL POWER































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[SolidSnake76]

no1 forcing u to do this blossom but next time, keep it short like mines. anyway...

Maya Angelo
in my opinion, the greatest black female poet that lived and still alive, bless her soul. born in 1928 Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou spent most of her childhood living with her grandmother in rural Arkansas. she grew up having a rough childhood. at age 5[i think], she was raped by her stepfather in detroit. that incident has tramatized her and the only person she would talk to is her brother bailey. after returning to her grandmother, she worked for a white woman who just called her mary. soon, she started to talk again thx to another woman who helped her.

She moved to her mother's home in San Francisco after graduating with honors from Lafayette County Training School in 1940. At the age of 16 she graduated from high school, gave birth to her son Guy, and began a series of jobs, including cooking and waiting tables. In the 1950s she became a nightclub performer and began careers as a singer, dancer, actor, playwright, magazine editor, civil rights activist, poet, and novelist. her most famous and read works are: 'And Still I Rise' and 'Phenomenal Woman'. she also marched in the million man march and someday, i hope to she her in person.

maya angelo is truly a Phenomenal Woman.

[coolplayer2K2]

slow down on ur post blossom

[SBYRD5]

Harriet Tubman
She was an African American female to start that started the UNGROUND RAILROAD.She was also a spy for THE UNION ARMY.She contributed to the freeing of slaves,and the smuggling of slaves to free lands.Like Canada,NY,etc.Threw perseverance and determination she was very succesful in her deeds.She is one of the most famous names in black history.

She is a great mentor to up rising black females...I may post another one in this topic.

[Nantuko Joe]

Jackie Robinson

The first black male to play professional baseball, which until his time had been a white-only sport. Despite all of the hatred and bigotry that was thrown at him, Jackie pressed on and paved the way for other african americans to be integrated not only into baseball, but also into football and basketball.

[Sportschick155]

I CANT BELIEVE U PPL DIDNT EVEN MENTION...MARTIN LUTHER KING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SolidSnake76]

sports, almost everyone in the world know who he is, besides, most of these pple here[the unintellengent one] would metion him like 10 times. put down sum1 u never heard of. my go....

oprah winfrey

a good role model and the santa clause to pple in need. the real america's sweetheart. born in 1954, she amused herself by performing for an audience of farm animals and corncob dolls, at an early age. she could read at age 3 and she recited speeches in church. after six years with her grandmother, her mother sent for her and oprahlived with her in a housing project in milwaukee, minesota. her mother was too busy to pay her any mind and she was abused by several men she trusted. oprah started a life of crime, nearly ending up in a detension hall. she went back to her father.

oprah was in nashville east high school when she entered broadcasting and read news for WVOL radio in nashville. she discovered the world of television in her sophmore year at tenesse state university where she majored in drama and speech. she was on WJZ-TV in baltimore after granduating. oprah then moved on to WLS-TV in chicago to host A.M. chicago, which became The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1985 and it went national. in that same year, she played sophie in The Color Purple and won both an golden globe and an academy award and formed her own production company: Harpo Production[that explains why her name is backwards when they show that after her show] to control her show and produce videos and flims for social importance.

oprah is the first black woman and the third woman in the U.S. to own a television and flim production studio. she also launched a television book club for her veiwers. i meet oprah once in the kings plaza mall in brooklyn, NYC[ma hometown] and this inspirational woman is a powerful one.

[Sportschick155]

i know but still! his still important!

[SolidSnake76]

this topic was an accident. no1 cares about this kind of stuff.

[EYO]

rosa parks:

i think she da one dat sat in the bus(front seat)....
and got sent 2 jail, den boycott da bus......and dey one 2...well i think dats her

[SolidSnake76]

eyo, research, more info.
sports, u do dr. king.

Thurgood Marshall

first black man on the United States Surpreme Court Justice. born in 1908, he grew up in baltimore and graduated from an all black high school at age 16.He attended Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the nation

[SolidSnake76]

Sammy Davis Jr

the decent micheal jackson of the mid 1900's[i do mean decent, no screwing up himself like jackson]. born in 1925, he started his career at age 3, prforming with his father and uncle: the will mastin trio. at 4, he made his movie debut 'rufus jones for president'.

Sammy Davis Jr lived from 1925 to 1990. Michael Heatley from Vox magazine gives a short biography.

In the over hyped world of popular music music, there are legends, and then there are Legends with a capital L. There's no doubting which category Sammy Davis Jr falls into. For a staggering 60 years, from his debut as a four year old child star in the late 1920's to his untimely death in 1990 at the age of 64, he more than justified his title of 'Mr Entertainment' and when he wasn't inspiring headlines on stage he was making news of it, as a founder member of the Rat Pack with fellow superstars Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

It's impossible in the space allotted to do more than scratch the surface of one of showbiz's all time greats. Thankfully, Sammy Davis Jr left no fewer than three detailed accounts of life at the top. 'Yes I Can' (1965) and 'Life In A Suitcase' (1980) were followed by 'Why Me', published the year before his death. All are required reading.

He owed his early start to his parents, vaudeville star Sammy Davis Sr and Puerto Rican 'Baby Sanchez, who performed with the youngsters adopted uncle, Will Mastin, in his act 'Holiday In Dixieland'. But Sammy Jr soon became the star of the show as the newly rechristened 'Will Mastin's Gang, Featuring Little Sammy' acknowledged. When the authorities forbade him to appear, so legend has it his father shrugged his shoulders, gave his son a rubber cigar and billed him as a 'dancing midget'.

Whatever the truth, Sammy Davis jr's career was off to a flying start. He made his film debut in the 1932 short Rufus Jones For President, showing off the tap dancing skills taught by the legendary Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. War service first brought Davis face to face with racial prejudice ('In show business we had our own protective system', he later remarked), but he survived to resume his career with the Will Mastin Trio (completed by his father), and while touring with Mickey Rooney in the late forties played a three week Manhattan residency with bill topper Frank Sinatra. It was the beginning of a close and lifelong friendship.
A near fatal car crash in 1954 en route to Los Angeles recording session saw Davis lose his left eye, but a gruelling rehabilitation schedule left little time for self-pity; he was back on stage within weeks, wisecracking about his newly acquired eye patch. That spell in hospital coincided with a religions conversion to the Jewish faith which, while sincerely held for almost the rest of his life, provided the material for yet more self-mockery of the type that endeared him to an ever growing audience.

Although Davis made his debut in 1956s Mr Wonderful, Broadway would be an occasional, enjoyable distraction from the bulk of his career. He returned in 1964 as boxer Joe Wellington in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odet's 1937 drama Golden Boy, both shows ran for over 400 performances.

Hollywood opened new doors for all-singing, all dancing Davis, his first notable role being Sportin'' Life in a 1959 version of Gershwins Porgy And Bess. If anything, he suffered through his notoriety, despite his undoubted ability, people found it difficult to accept him in character roles like the embittered jazz musician in 1966's A Man Called Adam. More successful perhaps were Rat Pack movies like Salt And Pepper (1968) and One More Time (1970) in which he simply played himself, while a brace of Cannonball Run films in the eighties afforded screen reunions with Dean Martin and others. Then in 1988, just two years before his death, he showed he could still dance by partnering Gregory Hines in the evocative Tap.

While Davis's success broke down racial barriers, there were inevitably cries of "sellout" notably when he endorsed Republican President Richard Nixon in 1972. (Even James Brown confided 'You're taking a lot of heat...I never got it this way'). Yet every black performer all the way to nineties superstars Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy (whose TV production company funded Davis's last movie role in The Kid Who Loved Christmas) owe him a vote of thanks for his ground braking work both on and off camera.

'Long before there was a civil rights movement', he remarked in 1989, I was marching through the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria, of the Sands, the Fountainbleau, to a table at the Copa. I'd marched alone'. But it was his attitude to performance that broke barriers. Jolson had got the ball rolling, but too many taboos remained.'Dad said to me "You can't do impersonations of a white person," he once commented. 'He really believed that'. Davis's philosophy was a simple one. 'Just do what you're best at, he said in 1988, 'and when you can't do it any longer - stop'.

Sadly, the cancer that ended his life on 16th May 1990 made that decision for him, but he'd long since sung and danced his way into mortality. A final world tour in 1988/89 with Sinatra and Martin will long be remembered, even though Liza Minnelli had to take Dean's place when ill health forced him to drop out. But Davis sang and danced on. 'Sammy knew he was dying back then,' Sinatra later revealed, 'but you never expect it to come to that. We all think we'll live forever.'

Sadly, of course, that doesn't happen, but the magic of the music remains. The tracks selected for this compilation come from the classic hit-making period of the fifties on Decca when creativity coincided with commercial appeal. The highlights are many: 'Love Me Or Leave Me Alone' (from the film of the same name), 'Something's Gotta Give' ( his first British best-seller), a revival of the classic 'That Old Black Magic', written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer and also recorded by Billy Daniels, and 'Hey There', from 1954's The Pyjama Game were all big hits.

Three times married, Davis beat alcohol abuse, physical infirmity and the colour bar and admitted he'd thrown away four fortunes gambling in Vegas and living the good life.' Yet the musical legacy he left is priceless, and one that will surely endure for all time.

[note: most of that was copied and pasted, i didnt feel like typing and sumerizing everything.]

[DA_VIPA]

does it really matter what skin colour u are ?? from a famous but very twisted pop star these are his words If u wanna be my brother , It dont matter if your black or whiitee! i do understand that black ppl have taken a lot of $hit over the years and i never sed that theirs anythin wrong wit black history month tho it dont exist in this country( england) but ppl shouldnt be praised more for their skin colour but for the things they acheive but anywayz thats just me ....



Edited By DA_VIPA on Feb. 10 2003 at 20:35

[G_GUNDAM]

yo it was a big fight today in my school. it was between the red necks and the black people. some redneck yelled **why do we need black history anyway. stupid niggers always getting their way** thats when all hell broke loose. it was like a gang war. blacks against the rednecks. man i hate living in orlando. i miss the hood that i used to stay in. :(

[SolidSnake76]

i running out of pple i know staight out of my head. would u pple please post.

jesse owens.

the first black man to run in the 500yrd dash in the 1939 olympics. thats all i know at the moment, will do research.

and vipa, yes it does. if black man makes an invention, white man comes along and steals it, claiming it for his own, black man will say its his invention but who will believe him? because of the color of the skin, white pple dont believe what blacks say. they dont care if a 10 black boy gets run over by a 30 white woman.

[DA_VIPA]

nope still not getting to me...or to u... i mean u know that guy that um.. did the 1st open heart transplant or surgeory that is something which is worth remembering but why should it just be in BLACK history month huh?? So what black man invented something that a white man stole then..? And if your black yourself do u feel safe crossing the road?

[coolplayer2K2]

sorry im very poor on history cuz i dont do history in my class

[SolidSnake76]

i mean u know that guy that um.. did the 1st open heart transplant or surgeory that is something which is worth remembering but why should it just be in BLACK history month huh??

to answer that, history could of been chopped up.

look, ever heard of segregration? after the civil war in the U.S., blacks were no longer slaves. but there were still NO or VERY LITTLE equal rights for the blacks. there were white only schools and black schools. on the buses, whites in the front, blacks in the back. even the drinking fountains and restrooms were segregated. before jackie robinson, no black person was on the major leauge baseball teams. robinson faced racisism and abuse from his OWN teammates. most of the players threatend to leave the team if he didnt leave. before that little girl in topeka kansas[forgot her name] attended an all white school[thx to thurgood marshall], imaging having to walk like miles to schools and back. u would have to get up very early. when she went to that school, the U.S. marshalls had to escort her because the parents, the white parents, would try anything to keep her away. some threaten to kill her. many blacks were threatened to not do certain things, but they did it anyway. the bus driver told rosa parks to move to the back or get arrested, but she stood her ground. and dont tell me u never heard of the Klu Klux Klan, formed after the civil war to keeps blacks from not only voting.

i hope this straighten things up for u.

[MasterX05]

nope still not getting to me...or to u... i mean u know that guy that um.. did the 1st open heart transplant or surgeory that is something which is worth remembering but why should it just be in BLACK history month huh?? So what black man invented something that a white man stole then..? And if your black yourself do u feel safe crossing the road?
Do u even know why we celebrate black history ever Feb?

[DA_VIPA]

no i dont numbnutts coz we dont have it....
in this country there has allways been equal rights ....

[SolidSnake76]

whatever. if ur not gonna metion a famous black person, dont bother replying to this topic.

[SolidSnake76]

Pearl Bailey

an actress, singer, best selling author and delegate to the United Nations. born in 1918..............................look, i getting sick of doing all the work. i give up.

[DA_VIPA]

Edward Alexander Bouchet
(1852-1918)

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Bouchet was the first African American to graduate (1874) from Yale College. In 1876, upon receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Yale, he became the first African American to earn a doctorate. Bouchet spent his career teaching college chemistry and physics.

better?...

[SBYRD5]

Excuss me have any of you mentioned the two african american males that helped produce automobiles...if you have please tell me where in this topic...if not I'll do research on it.


(If I find it I'll EDIT this post...)

[SolidSnake76]

i never knew about that. i still dont care since u pple dont care.

[SBYRD5]

ppl...care....atleast I think I care. :shocked:

[Lordcyris]

i doubt tmyapp is black

[DA_VIPA]

lordcyris..err would it REALLY matter?? wether he was black or white..

[SolidSnake76]

vipa i think ur being a hypocrite

[SolidSnake76]

ok i just thought of the best way to celebrate black history month.

an all out RACE WAR!

blacks against whites, rich against the poor, the mother land of africa against the european nation.

its time for black man to stand up to the abuse and take back what was rightfully thiers.
its time for black man to leave the prjects and slums and to storm into white mans mansion and take it over just like what they did to africa.
its time to stand up to fat white cops who abuse black man just becuase of DWB: driving while black.
its time to fight back with their own weapons and to let them know how it feels.

its time to fight back, the rise of the blacks is near.

[SBYRD5]

Black Power....DWB....hehe I heard that somewhere... :laughlong:

[DarkOmega]

ALL I GOT TO SAY IS THANKS TO ALL BLACK PPL OUT THERE

[KickurassKen]

ALL I GOT TO SAY IS THANKS TO ALL BLACK PPL OUT THERE
u said it

[SolidSnake76]

Black Power....DWB....hehe I heard that somewhere... :laughlong:
martin lawrence from 'National Security'? yeah, i saw it too.

and i got this idea from saturday night live from tracy morgan. but its true.denzel washington makes a movie, kids are learning about dr king and a bunch of other stuff.

to strongly celebrate, we need a race war.

[KickurassKen]

Black Power....DWB....hehe I heard that somewhere... :laughlong:
martin lawrence from 'National Security'? yeah, i saw it too.

and i got this idea from saturday night live from tracy morgan. but its true.denzel washington makes a movie, kids are learning about dr king and a bunch of other stuff.

to strongly celebrate, we need a race war.
dont go there whites vs blacks who will win??? white more money

[SolidSnake76]

i cant believe u jerks are gonna let this die.