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Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
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Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUEONS
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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315.0. "Black History Month" by STUDIO::GUILLERMO (But the world still goes round and round) Mon Feb 27 1995 15:30

[partial list]

George Washington Carver; botanist, scientist; discovered over 50 uses for
the peanut.

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams; first successful heart surgeon 7/9/1893

Cap B. Collins; inventor; patented portable electric light 1938.

John H. Johnson; publisher; founded Ebony and Jet.

Benjamin Banneker; architect, engineer, scientist; planned Washington D.C.

Dr. Charles Drew; "Father of Blood Banks"; developed blood plasma/transfusion

Frederick Douglass; orator, statesman

Bessie Smith; vocalist; makes first recording for Columbia records 1923

Oscar Micheaux; film director 1930's-50's.

J.F. Pickering; inventor; patents airship 1900.

Estevanico (Esteban) Moroccan explorer reaches American Southwest 1539.

Harriet Tubman; activist; conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable; pioneer; founded Chicago 1773.

C.B. Scott; inventor; patents street sweeper 1896.

T.J. Boyd patents device to detach horses from carriages 1872.

Jan Matzeliger; inventor; patents shoe lasting machine.

Thomas J. Martin; inventor; patents fire extinguisher 1872.

William Henry Lane ("Juba"); entertainer; perfects the tap dance 1804.

A. Miles; inventor; patents the elevator 1887.

Alexander Pushkin; author; founder of modern Russian literature.

Steward Dorie Miller awarded Navy Cross for heroic deeds at Pearl Harbor 1942.

Granville T. Woods; inventor; patents steam boiler furnace 1884.

Granville T. Woods; inventor; patents railway air brakes 1905.

E.R. Robinson; inventor; patents the electric trolley 1893.


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315.1POBOX::BATTISContract StudmuffinMon Feb 27 1995 15:322
    
    Colin Powell, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
315.2whew! Was waiting for Jesus to show upUSAT05::BENSONEternal WeltanschauungMon Feb 27 1995 15:341
    
315.3STOWOA::JOLLIMOREFood for a crowMon Feb 27 1995 15:374
>  waiting for Jesus to show up

	Jesus just left Chicago, and He's bound for New Orleans.
	
315.4MPGS::MARKEYMother is the invention of necessityMon Feb 27 1995 15:393
    
    Yeah, but does he have tin-foil in his hat?
    
315.5 SUBURB::COOKSHalf Man,Half BiscuitMon Feb 27 1995 15:498
    Brilliant gate fold sleeve to "Tres Hombres".
    
    Also,the nutters with the guns on the inside sleeve are pretty cool
    too. 
    
    Or am I being a bit old fashioned,talking about records?>
    
    
315.6WAHOO::LEVESQUEluxure et suppliceMon Feb 27 1995 16:005
    re: .0
    
     Thanks for that list, Brandon. Often we don't know who is responsible
    for things and it helps to see them listed with the proper
    attributions.
315.7STUDIO::GUILLERMOBut the world still goes round and roundMon Feb 27 1995 18:143
re:.-1

I thought it would make a nice counterpoint...
315.8STUDIO::GUILLERMOBut the world still goes round and roundMon Feb 27 1995 18:165
re:315.2

Well the jury's still out on that. I have no preference one way or t'other.

However, you'll notice that Beethoven was also _not_ included.
315.9JULIET::MORALES_NASweet Spirit's Gentle BreezeMon Feb 27 1995 20:4337
    Just came back from the "Gospel" luncheon put on by our African
    American Heritage committee.  Along with a black gospel group
    belting out some toe stomping songs, a Dr. Long from a local church
    spoke on the status of Black America and the demise of AA and other
    government programs targeted for omission by the G.O.P., which in turn
    effects black americans.  Basically, this speaker said that while
    slavery may be abolished, that black america is still oppressed but now
    in more subtle ways through silent demons... and thisis where the GOP
    fits in.
    
    A couple of things... I walked away feeling:
    
    1.  It was difficult to hear the disparity and percentages of black
    america's levels of poverty, fatherlessness, mortality, teenage murder
    victims from gang wars [blacks killing blacks] based on the
    progression from 1950 to 1995.
    
    This in and of itself is alarming to me, but I found myself wondering
    what the same categories would run for white america.  Would we not
    find that while numbers may be different, that percentages of increase may 
    be even more astounding.  I see more white homeless people on the street
    everyday, and the number of fatherless for white children can't be
    tailing behind black america too far.
    
    2.  The prescription for a better future for black america is the
    heritage of the black family and ...
    
    the *hope* that caused slaves to sing while their children were thrown to 
    the dogs or beaten by a whip.  
    
    Overall I'd say my awareness was heightened and that this was all 
    too frighteningly foreign to me.  I've never ever felt or believed that 
    any human being was less than myself regardless, of skin color or 
    nationality.  I've always approached people as individuals.  
    
    It's too bad that in all this "progression" we've not learned this as a
    nation.
315.10have to stop by MSO2 this Feb...GAAS::BRAUCHERChampagne SupernovaFri Jan 31 1997 11:4111
Subj:	February-African American History Month Art Exhibit                    1

From  Ted Campbell, DTN 223-8975, MSO

The month of February is celebrated as African American History Month.  The 
U.S. Diversity organization would like to invite you to review an art 
exhibit by 12 African American artists.  The exhibit is scheduled from 
February 3 through February 17, 1997, in the MSO2 cafeteria.  The featured 
artists are Milton Derr, Frank Frazier, Alix Beaujour, Larry Johnson, Ben 
(South Africa), Keith Washington and Robert Murrell.