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In 1943, Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, president of what is now Tuskegee University, urged his fellow black college presidents to raise money collectively through an "appeal to the national conscience." The next year, on April 25, 1944, Dr. Patterson, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and others incorporated the United Negro College Fund with 27 member colleges. Early supporters of the UNCF included President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. That first effort raised $760,000, a sum that would be worth approximately $8.6 million today.
Over the years, the idea and mission of UNCF have attracted hundreds of thousands, who through their gifts and their goodwill have helped us to keep our students focused on achieving their college degrees. Numbered among our friends was Sen. John F. Kennedy, who later became president of the United States. In 1959, he donated the proceeds from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, to UNCF.
In 1972, Forest Long, an executive at Young and Rubicam, the renowned ad agency, created the UNCF tagline "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." He explained that it represented a "plea to everybody to reject the prejudices of the past and consider the inner person." The tagline has become one of the most recognized slogans in advertising history.
Buoyed by the whole-hearted support of individuals, foundations, organizations, groups and corporations who have generously volunteered their time and donated their resources, our schools have achieved inordinate successes. Graduates of UNCF schools have made lasting contributions to our nation by building successful careers, supporting their families and changing their neighborhoods. They now enjoy freedom and independence that only a great education can provide.
Learn more about the impact of Dr. Frederick Patterson's vision and how UNCF has impacted American history and culture:
Roots That Run Deep A historical look at the impact of the United Negro College Fund and its member institutions on American history.
It's true, there's a "Black Agenda" that Barrack Obama is following.
How do I know it to be true? Because the "Ebony" Magazine told me.
Guess what, everything Obama's doing, is in that magazine...from national "cradle to grave" health care (which blacks support this), to massive education refunding and ending vouchers, which Obama has done, to green energy (don't ask me why they hopped on that boat...).
The fact is that the blacks in the US, and the socialists have common agendas and are joining paths in their goals of reforming America into a Europe.
Clearly this post is not a genuine comment on the Ebony Magazine article. Here the user Evangelical conjures up two spectres of terror and hatred from America's not-so-distant dark epoch of political reaction and racial bigotry in what has become a regular spiral of right wing pseudo-religious frustration against the man, - rather than the political party, to create the 'super beast'; a quintessential 'Negro Communist'. Not only is he under your bed but he's in charge of the nation!
Imagery to rattle that half-witted demographic who hanker after the days when segregation afforded a more orderly and secure society and when any notion of collective organisation by workers was stamped out with baton, tear gas and mounted horse, as subversive activity.
And look who is first in line to greet the incitement with open arms. None other than the 'voices of reason', raceright, who wastes no time drawing the social battle lines. His first word, 'They', speaks volumes, somewhere in the muddled response lies a reference to basketball and Opera, but next are the grim faces of the 'Red Dawn' brothers peering down at communist invaders from Cuba, ready to let loose their raging vengeance from the safety of a snipers nest. 'White slavery' of course being their considered verdict.
And who could blame these purveyors of reaction give the combustible nature of the Ebony article, with Obama's blatant usage of passages such as, 'I want to put together a plan that is good for everybody" and "the issues that affect the African American community are issues that affect everybody", and most damning: "if we put together a plan to deal with health care as a whole, then everybody benefits"
It's true, there's a "Black Agenda" that Barrack Obama is following.
How do I know it to be true? Because the "Ebony" Magazine told me.
Guess what, everything Obama's doing, is in that magazine...from national "cradle to grave" health care (which blacks support this), to massive education refunding and ending vouchers, which Obama has done, to green energy (don't ask me why they hopped on that boat...).
The fact is that the blacks in the US, and the socialists have common agendas and are joining paths in their goals of reforming America into a Europe.