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Toggl - Insanely simple time tracking Survival Gardening And a Way to Relax and De-Stress Survival gardening can be fun, relaxing and actually quite simple… Many people seem to think they don’t have enough space for a garden but the areas where you can learn how to grow a basic vegetable garden are endless. Yep, I am talking about those spaces we try to fill in with all kinds of flowers, shrubs, and even in some cases, gravel, so that it looks nice…. :) Plant your veggies there. Along Side Your House The area alongside the house is perfect for plants as it is protected from many things, such as: Frost, will stay frost-free longer in the fallcritters, we have to protect everything we grow here in Montana from hungry deerhail, heavy rains, strong wind… plus the plants seem to grow faster and I think it may be because heat is magnified. You may want to use non-hybrid seeds to do gardening as you will be able to harvest your own seeds for the following year this way. Visit our Survival Garden Ebooks page for simple green thumb helpsbooks..

FREE Microsoft Software for Tablet PC - Windows Live Due: The Superfast Reminder App for iPhone & iPad Lewis G. Clarke: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Hero Image Courtesy of Carver Gayton In the article below Seattle historian Carver Clark Gayton describes his most prominent ancestor, Lewis G. Clarke, who is widely considered to be the model for one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s main characters in her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Here Gayton describes Clarke’s evolving relationship with Stowe and as importantly, Clarke’s role in the larger struggle against slavery. When I was a child, my mother passed on stories to me and my siblings about Lewis G. Clarke, her paternal grandfather, a slave who escaped from bondage in the early 1840s. At the time I did not appreciate the significance of Lewis Clarke’s life nor his relationship with Harriet Beecher Stowe. By the time of his death in Lexington, Kentucky in 1897, Clarke had developed an international reputation. Yet after his death Clarke disappeared from newspapers and other major print media. Clarke’s own family also played a role in his later obscurity.

1DayLater - Keep track of your Time, Money and Business Miles pages/intro.ncl Stars of Color: Blacklisted! The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because of their suspected political beliefs or associations. Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the American Communist Party, involvement in progressive political causes that enforcers of the blacklist associated with communism, and refusal to assist investigations into Communist Party activities. Even during the period of its strictest enforcement, the late 1940s through the late 1950s, the blacklist was rarely made explicit and verifiable, but it caused direct damage to the careers of scores of American artists, often made betrayal of friendship (not to mention principle) the price for a livelihood, and promoted ideological censorship across the entire industry. [Wikipedia] Canada Lee Lena Horne

The REAL ‘Lone Ranger’ Was An African American Lawman Who Lived With Native American Indians The real “Lone Ranger,” it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story, including his ethnicity. The basics remained the same: a lawman hunting bad guys, accompanied by a Native American, riding on a white horse, and with a silver trademark. Historians of the American West have also, until recently, ignored the fact that this man was African American, a free black man who headed West to find himself less subject to the racist structure of the established Eastern and Southern states. While historians have largely overlooked Reeves, there have been a few notable works on him. Reeves took the chaos that ensued during the war to escape for freedom, after beating his “master” within an inch of his life, or according to some sources, to death. After the Civil War finally concluded, he married and eventually fathered ten children, making his living as a Deputy U.S.

UHURA’S LEGACY: Media Images and Diversity in STEM Careers « visualinquiry What was really great about Star Trek when I was growing up as a little girl is not only did they have Lt. Uhura played by Nichelle Nichols as a technical officer […] At the same time, they had this crew that was composed of people from all around the world and they were working together to learn more about the universe. So that helped to fuel my whole idea that I could be involved in space exploration as well as in the sciences. – NASA Astronaut Mae Jemison (Then & Now, 2005) Nichelle Nichols ("Lieutenant Uhura") in 1977, talking to students about The Space Shuttle In 1966, Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura was a groundbreaking character. Star Trek was cancelled in 1969; the show’s demise gave rise to the phenomenon of Trek fandom. There was no one in the astronaut corps who looked anything like me. Soon, Nichols was an outspoken supporter of space exploration and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Space Institute (NSI), a civilian space advocacy organization.

PAUL ROBESON, a brief biography Paul Robeson was a famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world. He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in the United States, and Black people were being lynched by racist mobs, especially in the South. Born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children. In 1915, Paul Robeson won a four-year academic scholarship to Rutgers University. At Columbia Law School (1919-1923), Robeson met and married Eslanda Cordoza Goode, who was to become the first Black woman to head a pathology laboratory. In London, Robeson earned international acclaim for his lead role in Othello, for which he won the Donaldson Award for Best Acting Performance (1944), and performed in Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings. During the 1940s, Robeson continued to perform and to speak out against racism, in support of labor, and for peace.

Drop Me Off in Harlem In the following transcript, Sr. Thompson provides an oral history describing the development of the Lafayette Players and its relevance to black theatre. The Harlem Renaissance was a rebirth. The Lafayette Players was started by a young performer named Anita Bush. Although Ms. Toward the end of her recuperation, she went to a theater in Harlem.... She sat there in the theater and thought, "this is a shame for this theater to just go down the drain like this." Of course, Marie Downs—like everyone else—had never heard of any serious black actors. So Ms. [She also stopped] Andrew Bishop, a performer around Harlem who did what they called tab acts (10-minute comedy acts in between longer shows) in between the Vaudevillian acts. They opened in November 1915, and they played at the theater for a short while. At the Lafayette Theatre, she said, "I don't know when it happened or when it first occurred, but when they started calling my group the Lafayette Players I didn't mind as much."

The 150th Anniversary of the United States Colored Troops Today’s blog post comes from archives specialist Jackie Budell. On May 22, 1863, the War Department issued General Orders 143, establishing a Bureau of Colored Troops in the Adjutant General’s Office to recruit and organize African American soldiers to fight for the Union Army. With this order, all African American regiments were designated as United States Colored Troops (USCT). Today marks the 150th anniversary of the USCT, and the National Archives is pleased to announce the completion of the USCT Service Records Digitization Project. In partnership with Fold3, the project provides online access to all service records—more than 3.8 million images—of Union volunteers in USCT units. From May 22 to 31, the digital collection will be free on www.Fold3.com . This rare photograph of Edmund Delaney was found in his compiled military service records when the file was being digitized. Edmund Delaney was a slave who served in Company E of the 117th USCT Infantry.

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