Month to honor Black History is just beginning I will tell you so many details of what my book A History of Alabama high school, "Know Alabama," he said of the contributions of African Americans in my home state.
Here goes: It was a half-page photo of a white man on a horse down inclined and knocks on the black field hand in the head. It seemed as if the slave is stroked. It read: "Master treated their slaves with kindness."
I'm not going to do.
When added in this section been one response to a subject called "History of Alabama" Jeopardy, say no one would have, "What is the unique contribution of African Americans in history textbooks most widely used public school in Alabama in the 1970s?"
Well, my condition which is excluded history text:
my white grandmother, who fry their chickens every time Dr. King came to Birmingham decimated in the 1960s left. Thirty years later I met a woman who worked with Dr. King to recall "that crazy old lady who always wore white Fried Chicken in the first line and never stopped shooting." I was pleased to hear his contribution recalled.
Edged out African-American women in Alabama, the bus boycott in Montgomery began, that Dr. King was joined later. During the boycott, these teachers risked the lives of their families for the copied material boycott night at the State University mimeograph machine at government expense.
Rosa Parks left and the two unmarried, pregnant teenagers before her, would not move to the back of the bus. Rosa Parks was the test case, because local leaders thought it was going to "play" more in advertising.
Some other black women from my American history text to the left were:
* Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), who was an abolitionist, suffragist and speaker. His speech is even more durable "Is not I a woman?"
* Madame CJ Walker (1867-1919), the inventor, a businesswoman and a leader was in the philanthropic community. Long before Oprah Winfrey, the billionaire who was the first African American woman in America.
* Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) was the first female flight captain Afro-Americans.
* Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), whose smooth voice of the Gospel is still incomparable.
* Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985), lawyer and teacher. She was the first African-American dean of the law faculty women in the United States. He was ambassador to Luxembourg by President Johnson and President Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She was the first African American to hold both posts.
Courageous African-Americans of the decade from 1700 also from the class of American history text to the left were:
* Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), mathematician and astronomer was. He worked on the study of the country which helped create Washington, DC
* Jean Baptiste Point DuSable (1745-1818), the pioneer and entrepreneur. He founded the city of Chicago.
* Jim Beckwourth (1798-1866), who was a researcher, an explorer and mountain man. He had the rare honor of the Crow tribe adopted.
Some of us are lucky enough to abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglas (1817-1895) and Scott Joplin (1868-1917), musicians have been taught as the famous "King of Ragtime."
But 1800 gave us:
* O. Henry Tanner (1859-1937) was an artist, self-exile in Paris, where she finally received the French Legion of Honor for his work. He left the United States early in his career than white students threw him a second floor window to not taught by an African American man.
* Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) poet and novelist.
* Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) a pharmacy. Several drugs invented and founded more than a business.
The 1900 gave us the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) also gave us Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), musician and composer of jazz.
But it was in the area of sport that many of the major challenges of the century that racism plays. Jessie Owens (1913-1980) was a track and field star, the Olympic champion in the 1936 games in Germany won, minorities, despite Hitler's hatred of blacks and others. In this thought Jesse was actually do not even capable of what he did with courage and grace.
My husband was and still remains a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He still mourns to move the team to the West Coast. He said that the man was the autumn of 1955 a very important moment for him. First, the Dodgers won the World Series. And, oh yes, it was born and then his wife.
In this connection, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) the color barrier in Major League Baseball game for my husband even loved Brooklyn Dodgers.
A move from my spouse was still talking about Robinson playing second base. Willie Mays was in the center field for the Giants. Robinson hit a triple into deep space Mays. When Robinson took third took his hat to Mays and Mays laughed back.
Jackie was a player of a ball player's ball, a civil rights activist and a businessman.
His newly released vintage photo Wheaties cereal box is a frame in our kitchen, in part because he has a great honor for a long time as a player.
Above all, his portrait cereal box is on our wall, because he lived and shared this conviction,
"... I'm not accepting it so much I cared about respect ... I would never support believed only because things could be better, what could be .."
