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Video | Frederick D. Patterson – The First African American to Own and Operate a Car Manufacturing Company [1m 59s]
Frederick The Creator
Frederick Douglas Patterson (1871 – 1932) was an American entrepreneur, known for running the family business, C.R. Patterson and Sons, and he is the creator of the Patterson-Greenfield automobile of 1915.
~ Frederick Patterson, Wikipedia
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A Mere “I Can” Beauty…
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
~ Virginia Woolf (azquotes.com)
Video | Life as a Quest – The Antidote to a Wasted Existence [12m 54s]
Don Quixote…is an allegory of the life of every man who, unlike others…pursues an objective, ideal end that has taken possession of this thinking and willing; and then, of course, he stands out as an oddity in this world.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Related:
- Ikigai Is Power! | Thou Shalt Lovethyself
- How To Identify Your Personal (and Interpersonal) Mission | Nycework
- Academy of Ideas | YouTube Channel
- “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Project Gutenberg
Empathy for Ernie “The Underdog” Lombardi
“If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.”
~ Alicia Keys (azquotes.com)
Video | Why They Keep Making Black People Look Like Losers [4m 32s]
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- Ernie Lombardi, Wikipedia
Video | 10 Black History Facts That Are Least Known [16m 52s]
The Rundown
- Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin
- Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most iconic part of his “I Have a Dream…” speech
- Inoculation was introduced to America by Onesimus, an enslaved African
- The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by the Quakers in 1688
- Of the 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, fewer than 388,000 arrived in the United States
- The diverse history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies
- Esther Jones was the real Betty Boop
- The first licensed African American female pilot was named Bessie Coleman
- Interracial marriage in the United States was banned in 1664 and not overturned until 1967
Related:
- Top 5 Overlooked Black History Facts [5m 35m] | YouTube
- Robert S. Abbott (pictured at the top of the post) | Britannica
Video | How Ida B. Wells Risked Her Life to Hold Murderers Accountable [4m 49s]
“In the late 1800’s, lynchings were happening all over the American South, often without any investigation or consequences for the murderers. A young journalist set out to expose the truth about these killings. Her reports shocked the nation, launched her journalism career and a lifelong pursuit of civil rights. Christina Greer details the life of Ida B. Wells and her tireless struggle for justice.”
~ TED-Ed | How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable – Christina Greer (YouTube)
Video | Crash Course Black American History Preview [6m 18s]
Learn about Black American History over the course of 51 episodes.
Journey with Clint Smith as he navigates the Black experience in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people who arrived at Jamestown all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement.
As you travel with Dr. Smith, you will learn about…
The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book (also The Negro Motorist Green-Book, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, or simply the Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was originated and published by African American New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans especially and other non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and poverty limited black car ownership, the emerging African American middle class bought automobiles as soon as they could, but faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences along the road, from refusal of food and lodging to arbitrary arrest. In response, Green wrote his guide to services and places relatively friendly to African Americans, eventually expanding its coverage from the New York area to much of North America, as well as founding a travel agency.¹
Continue on YouTube: Crash Course | Black American History
Related:
- Discovering and Remembering the Green Book | The Editor’s Desk
- The Green Book: The Black American’s Guide to Jim Crow America
- Democracy Now! Interviews Filmmaker Yoruba Richen, the Writer/Director of a documentary on The Green Book
Source:
1. Wikipedia, The Negro Motorist Green Book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
Video || The George Washington Carver Story | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation [3m 31s]
The George Washington Carver Story
In this segment of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, Mo Rocca meets with Debra A. Reid, Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford, to explore agriculture [and] the work [of] scientist George Washington Carver.
The George Washington Carver Story | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation (YouTube)
Mo and Deb met in the George Washington Carver cabin in Greenfield Village. Henry Ford built the cabin in 1942 to honor his friend, agricultural scientist George Washington Carver. The cabin was based on Carver’s recollections of the slave cabin in Missouri in which he was born in 1864.
In 1942, Henry Ford showed his admiration for his friend and colleague George Washington Carver by naming a Ford Motor Company nutrition laboratory after him. This was appropriate: Carver had dedicated his career to experimental agriculture and to improving farmer nutrition and health as well as crop yields. Though frail, Carver traveled to Dearborn for the dedication. Edsel Ford was also present.
Carver spent his career at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, advocating for new crops, such as peanuts, that would enrich both Southern farmers and Southern soils
Related:
- The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation
Video | 10 African American Women Inventors (Black Excellist) [18m 56s]
10 African American Women Inventors
- Patricia Bath
- Marie Van Brittan Brown
- Miriam Benjamin
- Sarah Goode
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner
- Judy Reed
- Sarah Boone
- Ellen Eglin
- Lyda Newman
- Alice H. Parker
Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity
On a Sunday evening in September 1977, 12-year-old Ian Rowe did something “unthinkable”: he challenged his parents.
His Queens, New York junior high school had become an epicenter for racial unrest because more Black families like Rowe’s were moving into his neighborhood, which was predominantly white at the time. The school board’s solution was to open a second school in a neighborhood with more white families.
All the white students were going to transfer to that new school, leaving Rowe’s junior high a virtually all-Black, segregated school. Rowe’s parents, on the presumption that the school with white students would be better, were going to transfer him too.
“Something about this just didn’t seem right…”
Read full article: “Ian Rowe: Why I Support True Diversity”(philanthropyroundtable.org)
Kamau Gachigi: Spreading African Innovation Through Fab Labs
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