Well Deserved Admiration and Respect

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Josephine Baker & Lena Horne
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From left to right (back row) Mel Torme and Sammy Davis Jr., (front row) Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, and Louis Armstrong, the Films, Sammy Davis Jr, Louis Armstrong, Thug Life, Actors, Black History Facts, Famous Black, Black History Month
The Racist Comment Cicely Tyson Still Remembers Decades Later
From left to right (back row) Mel Torme and Sammy Davis Jr., (front row) Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, and Louis Armstrong, the
F. Douglas & grandson African Americans, Frederick Douglass, West Chester, Historical Photos, Rich Family, Family Life
F. Douglas & grandson
May 5,1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry African Ancestry, African American Women, American Women, Author, African Diaspora
African Fashion Is Hot
May 5,1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Albert Einstein, Youtube, Selma Lagerlöf, Selma, Einstein, Playlist, Musica
Selma Lagerlöf - Wikipedia
Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
WWII -- original caption: "Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old Negro American, serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces. She is the first Negro woman to receive a commission as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol." Military, Ww2, Military History, Civil Air Patrol, World War Ii, Military Women, Thomas Carlyle
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WWII -- original caption: "Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old Negro American, serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces. She is the first Negro woman to receive a commission as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol."
ROSA PARKS - received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Upon her death in 2005, she was the first woman and second non-U.S. government official to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda. Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Megan Fox, Amelia, Martin Luther King, Queens, Persona
ROSA PARKS - received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Upon her death in 2005, she was the first woman and second non-U.S. government official to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Children James Dean, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King Jr, King Jr, Frank Morrison, Martin Luther, Black Fathers
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Children
Mellody Hobson " the president of Ariel Capital Management, the largest African-American-owned capital management firm in the world" http://www.forbes.com/profile/mellody-hobson/ Black Girls, Queen, Vintage, Beautiful Black Women, Girls Rock, Noir
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Mellody Hobson " the president of Ariel Capital Management, the largest African-American-owned capital management firm in the world" http://www.forbes.com/profile/mellody-hobson/
Barack Obama at Harvard Law School in 1990 --- First black person elected to be the President of the Harvard Law School Review. Presidents, President Obama, First Black President, Black Presidents, American Presidents, Harvard Law, Barack Obama, Law School
Obama and Patrick: Two gripping narratives
Barack Obama at Harvard Law School in 1990 --- First black person elected to be the President of the Harvard Law School Review.
In 1936, Hitler hosted the Olympics in Berlin, intending for them to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy. American Jesse Owens shattered that goal when he won four gold medals in track & field. Jesse Owens, Jessie, Jessie Owens, Athlete, 1936 Olympics, Greats, Track And Field
In 1936, Hitler hosted the Olympics in Berlin, intending for them to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy. American Jesse Owens shattered that goal when he won four gold medals in track & field.
Dr. Mildred Jefferson (1926-2010) The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, "I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live." Portraits, Black Is Beautiful, Amazing Women
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Dr. Mildred Jefferson (1926-2010) The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, "I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live."
Never was the story so movingly told. It's one thing to read a description of American slavery, and another thing to read the words of the actual victims. Reading, History Books, History Facts, Literature, Black History Books, Great Books, Black History Education, Oral History
Never was the story so movingly told. It's one thing to read a description of American slavery, and another thing to read the words of the actual victims.
FEARLESS teacher, Katharine Pettit, (1868 - 1936) was a progressive Kentucky educator who created "settlement schools" to improve health and education opportunities for poor Appalachian kids. She also worked to preserve and teach Appalachian culture through music, arts and customs. Vintage Photos, Kentucky, Political Reform, Well Behaved Women, My Old Kentucky Home, Heritage, Old Photos
Kentucky's fotched-on women
FEARLESS teacher, Katharine Pettit, (1868 - 1936) was a progressive Kentucky educator who created "settlement schools" to improve health and education opportunities for poor Appalachian kids. She also worked to preserve and teach Appalachian culture through music, arts and customs.