Black History Month. Celebrating Excellence

[CrusaderFrank]

"Anytime you throw your political weight behind a political Party that controls two-thirds of the government and that Party can’t keep the promises it made to you during election time, and you are dumb enough to walk around and identify yourself with that Party, you are not only a chump but you are a traitor to your race." -- Malcolm X

Read more at Blacks as Chumps Words from Malcolm X

 

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Who were the first two Americans decorated by France in WW1? Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts

History Travel Arts Science People Places Smithsonian

 

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What Black Man is responsible for doubling the size of the US at the time?

Toussaint Louverture

His defeat of Napoleon (twice) drove a financially depleted France to give up what we now know as the Louisiana Purchase.for 4 cents an acre.

Toussaint Louverture Historical Society Inc.

 

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The original Betty Boop. Gertrude Saunders AKA Baby Esther.

Baby Esther - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

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The founders of hockey was not invented by whites but by Black Americans.