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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. Stars of Color: Blacklisted! 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. 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.
The Gordon Parks Foundation. 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. His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University, and his mother came from an abolitionist Quaker family. Robeson's family knew both hardship and the determination to rise above it. Drop Me Off in Harlem. In the following transcript, Sr.
The Negro Motorist Green Book. 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). List of landmark African-American legislation. Congressional Legislation[edit] Bills not passed[edit] Bills signed into law[edit] U.S.
Constitutional Amendments[edit] Federal court and court decisions[edit] Federal courts[edit] Jeanne Theoharis: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Rosa Parks. (from The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis) 1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by the same bus driver -- for refusing to pay in the front and go around to the back to board. She had avoided that driver's bus for twelve years because she knew well the risks of angering drivers, all of whom were white and carried guns.
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