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The "I Have a Dream" Speech of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail
The King Center
Honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Categories include: History/Philosophy/Words/King Holiday
Pictures of King
Life Magazine Pictures over the years.
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A little poem, pointing to the lasting effects of an unkind word.
Once, riding in
Baltimore, Now I was eight and
very small, I saw the whole of
Baltimore (by Countee Cullen) |
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
(1919-1937) - A research and Reference Guide.
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Contains an
Introduction, Selected Bibliography, Blues Lyrics, and
Research and Study Topics.
Personalities featured include: Gwendolyn Bennett, Marita Bonner, Arna
Bontemps, Sterling A Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie
Redmon Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Marcus Garvey, Angelina Weld Grimke,
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, James
Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Mary White
Ovington, George Schuyler, Anne Spencer, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer,
Carl Van Vechten, Eric Walrond, Dorothy West, Walter White.
General information on black inventors and their work.
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Juneteenth, a contraction of “June 19th”, commemorates the date in 1865, on which the Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Tex., to inform inhabitants that the Civil War had ended and that slavery had come to an end in America.
The General read General Order Number 3 which began:
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer."
Until then, many slaves throughout the Southern states had been kept ignorant about the Emancipation Proclamation which had been signed 2 ˝ years earlier.
Observance of Juneteenth was mainly church-based, and featured food, fun, and presentations on self-improvement and education by guest speakers. Te tradition began in Texas and other Southern states but spread all across America.
The state of Texas made Juneteenth an official holiday on Jan. 1,
1980, becoming the first to grant government recognition of the
celebration.
More on Juneteenth
HOMELESSNESS AND DRUG USE IN AMERICA
Our great country should be able to deal with the problems of drug use and homelessness with greater effectiveness. But this is not happening. The voice of Dr. Provet is one, among others, we should hear on this subject.
Homelessness - A Daily News Op-ed Article by Dr. Peter Provet
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EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF AMERICA
Presumably, everyone regards education for America's children as a high priority. Here is one view from a distinguished citizen:
Children's education - from a speech by General Colin Powell
Scholarships for Minorities (lists over 100 scholarship opportunities and links to complete information).
The Ilois of Diego Garcia: The legal struggle of people who were forcibly removed from their island homes by Britain to return there.
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Something to think about Martin Luther King Jr. |
Ain't I A Woman? Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. |