tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86670803732028954642024-02-20T15:44:14.255-08:00TimePie by the Slicea blog about history, i.e. lifeCheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.comBlogger442125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-14423570118351342012013-07-14T21:05:00.001-07:002013-07-14T21:05:58.439-07:00July 14<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was Gerald R."Jerry" Ford's high school graduation picture, <br />taken in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 43 years before he'd become <br />U.S. President No. 38. Wasn't he dreamy? </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure." </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gerald R. Ford (July 14, 1913 ~ Dec. 26, 2006)</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, it happens that a decent man and one of our nation's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/geraldford"><b>presidents </b></a>came into the world one hundred years ago today. Baby<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford"> Leslie Lynch King Jr. </a></b>was born in Omaha, Nebraska, little knowing that he'd later be named after Gerald R. Ford, the man baby Leslie's mom married a few years later, having escaped her abusive husband, bless her heart and courage. Much less that a disgraced <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/richardnixon">president </a></b>would peg him for the vacated VP spot after <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew">Spiro Agnew's </a></b>downfall. Or that he'd have to step into the Big Job himself, after <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Richard Nixon's </a></b>own disgrace and downfall? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or did baby Jerry know, as all babies do ever so much more than they can articulate by way of their fresh, immature mechanisms? Earlier this evening I read a <b><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1975/06/02/1975_06_02_037_TNY_CARDS_000315086">short story</a></b> by <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mr8yj/profiles/muriel-spark">Muriel Spark</a> </b>that got me to thinking. In it she writes, "<i>...babies, in their waking hours, know everything that is going on everywhere in the world....</i>" I had considered that babies come into the world, still perfectly aware of the language spoken in Heaven or whatever realm they've just left. Unable to speak it. Forgotten it by the time they can form words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, the day poor, valiant Mrs. King's baby was born, I'd be willing to bet that grand parades were going on in Paris, being as it was <b><a href="http://french.about.com/od/culture/a/bastille-day.htm">Bastille Day. </a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Being as it was the 124th anniversary of the day when crowds of outraged Parisians, fed up with the sordid chasm between haves and have nots and their heedless, corrupt government, launched the uncivil uprising that sparked the <b><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219315/French-Revolution">French Revolution</a></b>. The <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/woodrowwilson">28th U.S. President</a></b> was newly inaugurated and things were tough and rowdy in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans">Balkans</a></b>. And of course the troubles there and many an elsewhere were laying the groundwork for the <b><a href="http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/sarajevo.html">assassination in Sarajevo</a></b> less than a year later that'd spark the great and terrible war, thanks to gaggles of bullheaded diplomats and jealous, pissy monarchs, unwilling to compromise their nationalistic, i.e. partisan views. That'd lead to another war even worse, even more deadly. In 1942, young Jerry Ford of Michigan signed up to serve in it, in the U.S. Navy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gerald Ford didn't run for the presidency. Scandalous twists of fate and a <b><a href="http://watergate.info/">Constitutional crisis </a></b>plopped him into it, but he stood up the job with decency, even going so far as to get himself in some serious soup by pardoning his tormented, resentful predecessor, wiping out the legal trouble Nixon had gotten himself into with all his conniving. And why? For the sake of national healing, as Ford saw it</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. For the common good - <i>what a concept.</i> </span><br />
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So, here we are, Citizens, our experiment in self-governance has made it 237 years. That's how long it has been since those warm, tense gents, all properly clad in natural fibers, signed off on the earnestly edited wording of their <b><i><a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html">Declaration of Independence</a></i></b>. More than once over the years I've written - and illustrated - done my best to capture this critical, pivotal time/space intersection at July 4, 1776/ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<br />
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Most memorably, in<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-John-Adams-Cheryl-Harness/dp/0792254910/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372951336&sr=8-1&keywords=the+revolutionary+John+Adams" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> The Revolutionary John Adams.</a><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b><br />
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</b>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-4108533672988718792013-02-10T21:41:00.003-08:002013-02-10T21:41:44.017-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 10: 12 Things to Know About Booker T. Washington So, of course I'd <i>heard</i> about <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington">Booker Tliaferro Washington</a>. </b>In school. Along the way. But I'd never really read about him until I was working, first, on a <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Remarkable-Rough-Riding-Theodore-Roosevelt-Histories/dp/1426300085/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360550787&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=cheryl+harness%2C+theo.+roosevelt">book</a></b> about <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/theodoreroosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a></b>, and then on my<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Groundbreaking-Chance-Taking-Washington-Invention-Histories/dp/1426301960/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360549654&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=geo.+washington+carver%2C+cheryl+harness"> book </a></b>about <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver">Geo. Washington Carver</a></b> a few years ago. Booker T. W. is something of anachronism these days, even categorized, I'd say most unfairly, as an <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom">Uncle Tom.</a></b><br />
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1. Why should Americans know about him? Because Mr. Washington, who began his life in slavery, became an educator, speaker, and author of great significance at a critical time in our nation's history, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Decades after the Civil War, racism was still rampant in America. Plenty of white citizens, particularly in what had been the Old south were doing their best, i.e. worst to keep former slaves and their children ground underfoot. How? With violence and intimidation. Keeping poor people down. Written and unwritten laws, together known as<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws"> Jim Crow.</a></b></div>
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2. As was the case with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a> and many another African American of this era, BTW's mother was enslaved. His father was a white man, a wealthy farmer or "planter" as such was known in Virginia, where BTW was born. April 5, 1856.</div>
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3. Every sort of hard, rotten sort of physical labor was the way BTW was able to work his way through African American schools, present-day<a href="http://www.hamptonu.edu/about/" style="font-weight: bold;"> Hampton University. </a>and<b> <a href="http://www.vuu.edu/about_vuu/history.aspx">Virginia Union University.</a></b></div>
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4. Armed with this education, 25-year-old BTW became head of a leaky, shabby set of buildings near Tuskegee, Alabama. It would be his job, his and his determined African American students, to turn those worn out buildings into a <b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_tuskegee.html">SCHOOL</a>. Which they did. </b></div>
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5. One of BTW's best known hires? That'd be Geo. W. Carver, the "Peanut Wizard," the "Sage of Tuskegee." In 1896. A year after the big speech BTW made in Atlanta, the speech that won him so much praise and scorn.<br />
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6. It was known as the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Exposition_Speech">Atlanta Exposition Speech </a></b>or, by some, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, as the 'Atlanta Compromise. Booker T. Washington delivered this address to a mostly white audience in Sept 1895. Here is <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CknAQiHzQ">BTW's recounting</a></b> of it, from his 1901 memoir,<b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Up-Slavery-Booker-T-Washington/dp/1612931065/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360558343&sr=8-1&keywords=up+from+slavery"> Up From Slavery. </a> It's a hard listen from a modern p.o.v. In 1895, the speech made him a national popular sensation. </i></b><br />
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7. BTW's pragmatic p.o.v. was highly necessary, considering all of the money he was constantly trying to raise, considering all of the favor he was actively courting from influential people, particularly white ones, ever leery of being asked to move too far or too fast from the status quo. <br />
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8. BTW was so popular that President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dine with him at the White House. I mean, think of it: In the entire history of the slave-built place, black people were the ones who cooked and served meals and washed up afterwards. Only fitting that a significant educator should be asked to visit with the President - but the response from the outraged South was so foul, filthy, backwards, racist. Disgusting and shocking even now to read....<br />
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<br />Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-28825275477865355462013-02-10T13:34:00.000-08:002013-02-10T13:35:35.195-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 9: 12 Things to Know About W.E.B. Du Bois<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"One ever feels his twoness – </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">an American, a Negro; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">two souls, two thoughts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">two unreconciled strivings; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">two warring ideals in one dark body, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whose dogged strength alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To be a poor man is hard, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but to be a poor race in a land of dollars </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is the very bottom of hardships...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"But what of black women?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...I most sincerely doubt </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if any other </span><span style="font-size: large;">race of women </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">up through so devilish a fire." </span></div>
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1. The initials in his name stood for William Edward Burghardt and his last name (derived from the French language) is pronounced Du Boyz.</div>
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2. He came into the world at the time/space intersection 23 Feb 1868/Great Barrington, Massachusetts.</div>
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3. Behind that wonderful, thoughtful face, pictured here was a brilliant mind. William's friends, fellow church members, and neighbors recognized that early on. In fact they pooled their resources to help him go to college, to <b><a href="http://www.fisk.edu/aboutfisk/HistoryOfFisk.aspx">Fisk University</a></b>, in Nashville, TN. It was created after the Civil War, as a school for African Americans, and by the time Wm. went there in the 1880s, Fisk was famous all around the world, thanks to its far-traveling <b><a href="http://www.fiskjubileesingers.org/about.html">Jubilee Singers. </a></b></div>
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I don't know that I even want to think about what it must have been like for this gifted young Bay Stater traveling southward and experiencing the deeply wounded, still recovering, furiously racist South. Color barriers. the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan"><b>Klan. </b></a><b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/">Jim Crow. </a></b>Etc, etc. </div>
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4. W.E.B.DuB. continued his studies in social sciences at Harvard, eventually becoming, in fact, the FIRST African American to earn a Ph.D. there (in 1895). He studied in Berlin, Germany, too. Toward the end of the 19th century, at just about the time that <b><a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/GWC.htm">Geo. Wash. Carver </a></b>was making his way from Iowa University to his professorship at <b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_booker.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Booker T. Washington</span>'s </a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/tuin/index.htm">Tuskegee Institute,</a></b> <b><a href="http://www.webdubois.org/"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span></a></b><b><a href="http://www.webdubois.org/"><span style="font-size: large;">r. Du Bois</span></a> </b>became a history and economics professor at Atlanta University. </div>
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And you know what else; Dr. Du Bois created and published <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Negro-Social-Study/dp/0812215737">The Philadelphia Negro</a></i></b>, a sociological study, a serious work of scholarship about a group of black folks living there.</div>
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5. At the beginning of the 20th Century, two of the strongest African American voices were those of Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee and Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. As to perceptions of their people and as to the poverty and seemingly bottomless bigotry facing their race, these two powerful men were in deep disagreement. <br />
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6. Booker T. W., who was 8 yrs. older than Dr. Du B., had come the hard way to a go along to get along acceptance of white supremacy It was a hard, but immovable fact. The best that blacks could do for themselves was keep their heads down and get whatever vocational training they could to get and stay hired. He'd come to national prominence with an 1895 <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Compromise">speech</a></b> in which he said, in part, "The wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly." <br />
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7. Dr. Du B's response was his book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Souls-Black-Folk-Bois/dp/1612931073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360526258&sr=8-1&keywords=the+souls+of+black+folks" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> The Souls of Black Folk. </a><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>Equal rights were to be fought for and leadership skills were to be taught and developed. Moreover, Du Bois and the other founders of the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Movement">NIAGARA MOVEMENT</a></b> declared that blacks 'should not submit to being humiliated, degraded, and remanded to an inferior place." <br />
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8. In 1910, Dr. Du B. was in at the founding of the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. </a></b><br />
And you know, "Colored" rather than "Black" was Dr. Du B's idea, the idea that ALL dark-skinned people, all round the world, should work together to conquer the scourge of prejudice.<br />
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9. As the new NAACP's Publicity and Research Director, W.E.B. Du Bois founded and edited the organization's successful and significant monthly journal, <i><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis">The CRISIS. </a> In its pages he spoke out against the continuing assaults, lynchings, riots, massacres, on African Americans, against the world wars, the old colonial empires...</b></i><br />
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10. Over the years Dr. Du Bois wrote book upon book (including, even, a <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Princess-Banner-Books-Bois/dp/087805765X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360531111&sr=1-1&keywords=w.e.b.+du+bois%2C+dark+princess">romance</a></b>), the chief of which, his magnum opus was considered to be his history, <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Reconstruction-America-1860-1880-Burghardt/dp/0684856573/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360531014&sr=8-1&keywords=black+reconstruction+in+America">Black Reconstruction in America, 1860~1880</a>. </i></b><br />
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11. And over the years, this cruel old world never ceased to offer outrage.<br />
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12. Dr. Du Bois, 95, was in Ghana, working on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Africana" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">ENCYCLOPEDIA AFRICANA</a><b style="font-style: italic;">, </b>when his long life came to an end, on 27 Aug, 1963. The very next day, a world away, thousands attending the <b><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html">March on Washington</a></b>, stood silent upon hearing that the scholarly warrior for equality had passed away.Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-36334895797606735332013-02-10T09:29:00.001-08:002013-02-10T09:30:20.973-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 8: 12 Things to Know About Dorothy Height<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Without community service, </i></span></div>
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1. About three weeks before the great ship Titanic went down, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Height">Dorothy Irene Height </a></b>was born in Richmond, Virginia, the old capital city of the Confederacy, on 24 March, 1912.<br />
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2, But it wasn't long before her folks moved, so Dorothy grew up in Pennsylvania. As a high school student, she entered a national contest, writing and speaking about the U.S. Constitution. Ms Height, the only African American contestant and won a 4-year college scholarship.<br />
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3. 17-yr-old Dorothy was accepted at Barnard College, in 1929. Then turned away: they'd already accepted as many Negros as they had to that year. imagine that<br />
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4. For decades, Miss Height employed these disciplines as an energetic and constant worker in organizations devoted to making civil and economic life more just. In a racist world where, generally speaking, women and girls still, as ever, get the short end of the stick, Ms. Height had her work cut out for her. Against lynching and AIDS. For universal suffrage and reproductive freedom. Softening the burdens of poverty.<br />
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5. To that end, Ms. Height involved herself with the <b><a href="http://www.ywca.org/site/c.cuIRJ7NTKrLaG/b.7515891/k.C524/History.htm">YWCA</a>, w</b>hich got started in the latter 1800s, in England, as more and more young women were moving to London and other big cities to work in factories. <br />
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6. And the<b> </b><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Negro_Women">National Council of Negro Women</a>, </b>founded by the great leader and educator,<b> <a href="http://www.ncnw.org/about/bethune.htm">Mary McLeod Bethune</a>. </b><br />
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7. In Mrs. Bethune, Ms. Height found a valuable mentor. <br />
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8. Dorothy Height served as president of the Nat'l Council of Negro Women for 40 years, from 1957 until 1997. As such, she advised U.S. Presidents.<br />
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<b>9. Of the key individuals who brought about the March on Washington in August 1963, only Dorothy Height was NOT asked to speak. "I didn't feel I should elbow myself to the front when the press was focused on the male leaders." After all, as Ms. Height would often say, it wasn't a question of personal limelight but collective struggle. </b><br />
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10. For her life time of service to her country, Dorothy Height was given 3 dozen honorary doctoral degrees (AND an honorary degree from Barnard, 75 yrs. after they closed the door on her) AND her nation's two highest civilian awards. In 1994,<b> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamjclinton">President Bill Clinton</a> </b>awarded Ms. Height the<b> <a href="http://www.nndb.com/honors/482/000045347/">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>.</b><br />
Ten years later,<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewbush" style="font-weight: bold;"> President Geo. W. Bush</a><b> </b>awarded her the<b> </b><a href="http://history.house.gov/Institution/Gold-Medal/Gold-Medal-Recipients/" style="font-weight: bold;">Congressional Gold Medal</a>. <b> </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">11. Apart from all else, Ms. Height was a lady of glorious hats. Note this treasure of a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znI8EDsyXI">VIDEO</a>: in which Ms. Height wore a very nice one at the White House, recounting to <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama">President Barack Obama</a> her memories of young <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086">Martin Luther King. </a></span></b><br />
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12. Ms. Height passed away 20 April 2010. Her<b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21height.html?_r=0">obituary</a> </b>in the NY Times was one of MANY tributes to this great American.<br />
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<b><br /></b>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-66775321178690887262013-02-07T15:16:00.000-08:002013-02-07T15:17:09.039-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 7: 12 Things to Know About Frederick DouglassSo, apart from the fact that - I mean, what sort of a cockamamie black history month deal would NOT include <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html">Frederick Douglass? </a></b></span> On the other hand, it seems kind of rotten to have him and these other complex individuals relegated to 1/12th of the year. <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324">Frederick Douglass</a></span></b> is just one heck of a fierce American. Courageous. Ferocious. And oh my gosh, what a FACE!<br />
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1. He never knew his dad, a white man, and his mom, from whom he was early on taken away, died when he was a boy. He came into the world in Maryland, around 1818, but no one knows for sure exactly when.</div>
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2. Yikes, I should have posted this next week! Frederick chose Valentine's Day as his birthday.</div>
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4. Though doing so was against the law– and against the wishes of her husband: after all, an educated slave might become unhappy about being enslaved – the wife of one of his white masters taught him his letters and young Frederick scavenged education from white kids, anywhere he could get it. He practiced reading, newspapers, signs, anything he could find. Then he did his best to teach others. Until angry, club-wielding white folks broke up his classes.</div>
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5. One of his masters, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Covey">Edward Covey,</a> was known as a "slave-breaker," one who'd beat and torment the spirit out of a slave. 16-year-old Frederick fought back, so much and so well, that Mr. Covey never beat him again. </div>
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6. On his 3rd attempt, 20-yr-old Frederick escaped. Stole himself away. In 1838. With the help of his future wife <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Murray-Douglass">Anna Murray</a>. </b>Their marriage, which began on 15 Sept 1838, lasted 44 years.</div>
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7. In his anti-slavery speeches, he spoke so well, people wondered if he'd really been a slave. So, he wrote his 1845 bestseller, his <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Frederick-Douglass-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486284999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360272838&sr=8-1&keywords=narrative+of+the+life+of+frederick+douglass">Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. </a></i></b></div>
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8. Then he left the country. Went on a 2 year speaking tour of Ireland and England. Because, really, there's nothing like an escaped slave writing a popular, incendiary autobio to attract the attention of his legal owner. But you know what happened? Frederick's fans in Great Britain passed the hat, came up w/ the money for his freedom.</div>
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9. Back in the U.S.A. in 1847, F.D. began an antislavery <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_(anti-slavery_newspaper)">newspaper. </a> AND,</b> he showed up at Seneca Falls, NY, at the very FIRST Women's Rights Convention. In the years to come, F.D. would speak often about women's civil rights. </div>
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10. For the rest of his life Frederick Douglass wrote newspaper articles, books, speeches. He campaigned for social justice, equal education. With<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells"> Ida B. Wells, </a></b>he campaigned against the vile, nasty practice of<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html"> lynching. </a></div>
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11. Is there a Frederick Douglass National Historic Site? Why yes! Frederick and Anna bought <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_National_Historic_Site">Cedar Hill</a>, </b> in southeastern D.C., in 1877. Five years later, Anna died. then, in 1884, F.D. remarried. His 2nd wife was sufragist <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Pitts_Douglass">Helen Pitts.</a> </b></div>
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-73648179129676158852013-02-07T11:59:00.000-08:002013-02-07T11:59:45.336-08:00Black History Month No. 6: 12 Things to Know About FANNIE LOU HAMER<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />1. Fannie Lou, her 14 brothers, and 5 sisters were the children of Jim and Lou Ella Townsend, They lived in Montgomery Co. Mississippi.<div>
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3. Fannie Lou's folks worked and saved enough to own three mules and a pair of cows. A white neighbor poisoned all five animals. The Townsends lived in a time and place where most white folks were dead set against black folks getting ahead. </div>
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4. Fannie Lou Townsend and Perry "Pap" Hamer in 1944. </div>
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6. Throughout what had been the Old South/slave economy, there were loads of obstacles such as an expensive "poll tax" and/or an impossible written test, designed to keep African Americans from voting. You could get in serious trouble for even registering to vote. Nonetheless, in August 1962, Mrs. Hamer went to a church meeting. The topic? Civil Rights. </div>
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7. As I wrote of Mrs. Hamer in my book <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rabble-Rousers-Twenty-Women-Difference/dp/0525470352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360264410&sr=8-1&keywords=rabble+rousers">Rabble Rousers</a></i></b>, "Fannie Lou had never known she could vote. Now that she did, nothing was going to stop her. Either she'd be killed fast, she figured, or a little at a time, as she had been all her life." </div>
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Fannie Lou Hamer became part of a valiant generation who were determined to protest and fight to win their legitimate right to vote.</div>
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9. Not only was Mrs. Hamer a passionate speaker, she heartened and encouraged her fellow protestors with her singing. You can hear her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRfT12Sojw">HERE. </a><br /><div>
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10. Mrs. Hamer lost the election when she ran for the U.S. Congress in 1964. As a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Mrs. Hamer was asked to speak to her fellow Dems at the 1964 Convention. You can hear her powerful testimony right <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TchoKJrvFQ">HERE. </a></b></div>
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11. Four years later, she was a part of her state's delegation to the Dems' troubled, raucous national convention of 1968. All along, Fannie Lou Hamer spoke out against the war in Viet Nam. She championed early childhood education. She was active in Dr. Martin Luther King's <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign">Poor People's Campaign. </a></b>again</div>
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Why should you know about Mrs. Hamer? Because when it would have been so easy to just let things go on as they had been going on, she saw that the old way needed changing and risked EVERYTHING to change them. </div>
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-79725596859744206072013-02-05T15:09:00.003-08:002013-02-05T15:17:47.192-08:00Black History Month No. 5: 12 Cool Things to Know About BHM and Hank Aaron, too.<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">So, wow, not being a sporty person, I learned a lot about <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Aaron">Hank Aaron</a>, </b>who turns 79 years old today, that I never knew before. Very cool guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. So, long before February was designated <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month">BLACK HISTORY MONTH, </a></b> the boy baby who'd grow up to be known as Major League Baseball player, Hammerin' Hank Aaron was born on the 5th day of it, in Mobile, Alabama, down on the Gulf of Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. In the beginning, in 1926, BHM was conceived as <b><a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/a/BlackHistoryMonth.htm">'Negro History Week."</a> </b>The 2nd week of February, as a matter of fact, in which a pair of notable winter babies were born: <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln">Abraham Lincoln.</a></b></span></div>
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3. Whose idea was it? Really, a remarkable individual, a proud black man, and passionate historian, Dr. C<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson">arter Godwin Woodson.</a> </b></div>
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4. Dr. Woodson, who rec'd his Ph.D. (in history) from Harvard University in 1912, pioneered the<i> idea - </i>revolutionary for his time<i> –</i>that the history of African Americans was worthy of deep, scholarly attention. </div>
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5. Four years after Dr. Woodson died (3 April, 1950), Hank Aaron of Alabama made his Major League debut with the <b><a href="http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/milbraves/milbraves.html">Milwaukee Braves</a>.</b></div>
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6. Mr. Aaron started out his baseball career in the <b><a href="http://www.nlbm.com/">Negro American League</a></b>, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Clowns" style="font-weight: bold;">Indianapolis Clowns. </a> Knowing well that you gotta be a sturdy talented individual to be a clown, I'm thinking that that's a rather crummy/demeaning team name. </div>
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7. In 1976, 50 yrs after the 1st Negro History Week, the first official <b><a href="http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/about.html">African American History Month</a></b> was celebrated. <b></b></div>
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8. By that year, the U.S.A. Bicentennial, Hank Aaron was wrapping up his nearly 23 year-long career with the <b><a href="http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=atl">Atlanta Braves. </a></b></div>
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10. And a big stink it was back on <b><a href="http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/april-8-1974-%E2%80%93-hank-aaron-broke-babe-ruth%E2%80%99s-home-run-record/">April 8, 1974</a></b>, when Hank hit No. 715. Why? It meant that Mr. Aaron, who'd been getting lots of support <i><b>as well as racist death threats</b>,</i> had broken <b><a href="http://www.baberuth.com/">the Babe's </a></b>long-standing home run record. </div>
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12. but as of 1982, you'll find Hank "the Hammer" Aaron listed among the greats in baseball's<b><a href="http://baseballhall.org/hall-famers"> Hall of Fame</a></b>. Wanna read more about him? Check out his autobiography, <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Had-Hammer-Hank-Aaron-Story/dp/0061373605/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1360105594&sr=8-2&keywords=hank+aaron">I Had a Hammer. </a></i></b></div>
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Aim some happy birthday vibes in his direction and pay some attention to Black History Month. You'll discover some REMARKABLE stories about your fellow Americans. </div>
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<br />Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-5546941694491432402013-02-04T11:05:00.001-08:002013-02-04T11:09:04.603-08:00Black History Month No.4: 12 Cool Things to Know About Rosa Parks <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. For one thing, as you can see here, <b><a href="http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/meet-rosa-parks">Mrs. Parks </a></b>was born 100 years ago today, back when big-bellied <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamhowardtaft">Wm. Howard Taft </a></b>was the President; in the year that <b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html">Harriet Tubman</a></b> died, in <b><a href="http://www.tuskegeealabama.org/">Tuskegee, Alabama</a></b>, home of educators<b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_booker.html"> Booker T. Washington </a></b>and<b><a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/GWC.htm"> George Washington Carver</a></b>; legions of students - and, during WWII, valiant African American<b><a href="http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/"> airmen</a></b> at what is now <b><a href="http://www.tuskegee.edu/">Tuskegee University.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2. Rosa was born into an unfair world. She grew up on a farm, in the frightening, infuriating days of <b><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm">JIM CRO</a>W</b>. In the wide-awake nights when <b><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan">Ku Kluxers </a></b>rode the landscape, intimidating black folks or anyone the Klan didn't much care for. In the fierce time of <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html"><b>lynching. </b> </a>51 African Americans are known to have been lynched in 1913, in Rosa's birth year. Beaten, strung up by their neighbors, because of the color of their skin. As my granny once said, "The only good thing about the good old days is that they're gone." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Rosa McCauley went to a one-room school house set aside for African American students. She furthered her studies at the Industrial School for Girls and at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_University">Alabama State Teacher's College for Negroes</a>, in Alabama's capital city, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama">Montgomery. </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. But Rosa had to leave school to look after her grandma and her mother, when they got sick. She got a job in a shirt factory. And 19-year-old Rosa McCauley fell in love with a hungry-minded barber, named Raymond Parks. <b><a href="http://marriage.about.com/od/historical/p/rosaparks.htm">Rosa and Raymond </a></b>were married a week before Christmas, in the hard <b><a href="http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/p/greatdepression.htm">Great Depression</a></b> year, 1932. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. With Raymond's encouragement, Rosa earned her H.S. diploma, in 1933. And Mr. and Mrs. Parks of Montgomery (when they weren't cutting hair or sewing shirts and keeping house) involved themselves in African American campaign for their civil rights as full-fledged citizens of the United States of America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6. In time, they joined the <b><a href="http://www.naacp.org/">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a>.</b> (A fine <b><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715">LINK, </a></b>where you can read more about Mrs. Parks and her official capacity in the NAACP. For one thing, you'll learn about brave, stubborn Civil Rights campaigner, <b><a href="http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1355">E. D. Nixon,</a></b> who, among other things, helped get Rosa Parks out of jail!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7. E.D. Nixon and Mr. and Mrs. Parks were among the many black and some of the progressive white citizens of Montgomery, AL, who were DETERMINED to change the fact that their town's busses were segregated. Lest African Americans ever forget that they were 2nd class citizens, city leaders made them sit AT THE BACK of the BUS. AND, if the bus was crowded and a white someone wanted a seat at the back, any black someone must get UP and give up his or her seat. Distinctly unfair! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Later on, seamstress Rosa Parks would say that all she was doing, on the <b>1st of December, 1955</b>, was "trying to get home from work." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">8. True, but Mrs. Parks was also tired, sick and tired of hundreds of years of ugly treatment and inequality. Rosa Parks was photo'd </span><b style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/civilrights/ig/Civil-Rights-Movement/Rosa-Parks.htm">getting fingerprinted</a></b><span style="font-size: small;">, having her </span><a href="http://www.rosaparksfacts.com/images/civil-rights/rosa-parks_mugshot.jpg" style="font-size: medium;"><b>mugshot</b> </a><span style="font-size: small;">taken, and sitting on a bus seat that she's REFUSED to give up to a white person. </span><b style="font-size: medium;">Rosa Parks became a national symbol,</b><span style="font-size: small;"> but she and thousands more had come to a fateful decision: By golly, they would protest and STOP this unfairness. They would WALK - even when they were exhausted... even when it was pouring down rain –instead of riding their town's busses. So, with Mrs. Parks' arrest, began the </span><b><a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956/"><span style="font-size: large;">MONTGOMERY [AL] BUS BOYCOTT.</span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9. Though white authorities did all they could to BREAK the famous</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott">Bus Boycott</a>, </span><span style="font-size: small;">it lasted for more than a YEAR. </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">It ONLY ENDED on <b>December 20, 1956,</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> thanks to all of those proud, stubborn walkers. Thanks to drivers who risked arrest giving a walker a ride. Thanks to walking, writing, working, protesting and speaking by Rosa and Raymond Parks, their fellow activists, </span><b style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Nixon">E.D. Nixon</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy">Ralph Abernathy</a>,</b><span style="font-size: small;"> and the charismatic minister, chosen to lead the boycott </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr."><span style="font-size: large;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10, AND, now that Rosa and the rest of the valiant protestors had gotten Alabama's attention, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle">judges declared</a></b> that bus segregation was UNCONSTITUTIONAL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11. SO. The<b><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html"> CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT </a></b>was over now? Nope. Really, it had just begun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">12. Besides the self-empowerment <b><a href="http://rosaparks.org/">institute </a></b> Rosa founded in honor of Raymond (after he died in 1977), Rosa Parks spent the rest of her long life supporting the causes in which she believed. She told her story in a<b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Parks-My-Story/dp/0141301201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360004287&sr=8-1&keywords=Rosa+Parks%2C+My+Story">fine book for young readers</a></b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosa-Parks-My-Story/dp/0141301201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360004287&sr=8-1&keywords=Rosa+Parks%2C+My+Story">,</a> too, in 1992. Though the citizens and the Congress of the U.S. would refer to her as <b> "The First Lady of Civil Rights," ROSA PARKS,</b> <b>'the Mother of the Freedom Movement,' was humble about the part she played. Until she died, 24 Oct. 2005, when she was 92.</b></span></div>
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-86371661834184725872013-02-03T09:15:00.004-08:002013-02-03T09:18:41.328-08:00Black History Month No. 3: 12 Cool Things to Know About Mary Ann Shadd Cary <span style="font-size: large;"> Okay, so I'd never heard of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd">Mary Ann Shadd Cary</a></b> until I had the privilege of writing and illustrating the book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rabble-Rousers-Twenty-Women-Difference/dp/0525470352/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359907786&sr=8-2&keywords=Rabble+Rousers"> <b><i>Rabble Rousers: Twenty Women Who Mad a Difference</i></b> </a>(pub'd by Dutton in 2003. One of them was <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth">Sojourner Truth</a></b>, about whom I wrote <a href="http://timepiebytheslice.blogspot.com/2013/02/black-history-month-no-2-12-things-to.html">yesterday</a>.) In learning about Mrs. Cary, honored I was to know of this valiant, stubborn lady. Honored I am to acquaint others with the fact that she <i>lived.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Mary Ann's parents, Abraham and Harriet Shadd, were free black citizens of Wilmington, Delaware and big deals in the Underground Railroad: a very brave undertaking in their America. Mary Ann was the first of their 13 children.</span><br />
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-41015879249635689142013-02-02T08:57:00.001-08:002013-02-02T09:00:44.631-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 2: 12 Things to Know About Sojourner Truth<div style="text-align: center;">
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10. One way she paid her way was selling the harrowing story of her life, an eyewitness testimony of a life enslaved. Did she write it? No, she'd never been taught how. No, she <i>told </i>her <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html"><b><i>Narrative.</i></b> </a> Did she publish it herself? No, that was done by the great abolition activist <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison">William Lloyd Garrison. </a> </b>Want to learn more about him and the heroic generation, who worked so long and hard against slavery? All those long decades BEFORE the Civil War? Then totally check out the terrific documentary, <b><i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/abolitionists/">The Abolitionists</a></i></b>, recently shown on PBS.</div>
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11. And Sojourner Truth sold pictures of herself. <i><a href="http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/articles/articles.html">Cartes des visites</a></i>, the photo"visiting cards," so popular in the 19th century. </div>
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12. Oh the things that are to be known about this valiant woman number far and away more than a dozen. That she recruited and aided African American soldiers, serving in the Union Army. That she was injured by a brutal, furious white man when she tried to integrate the streetcars of Washington, DC. (He was probably scared, too. No excuse, but change IS pretty danged scary. It's hard when old ways are passing.) But for sure I want you to know the moment in 1851 when Sojourner Truth walked to the front of a fine old church in Akron, Ohio, and<i> testified. After all, wasn't she a woman?</i></div>
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<i> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>How do we know what Sojourner said on the long ago 29th of May, 1851? How she looked? Because someone who was there wrote down what she heard and saw that day. That's a good lesson, you guys: Want to make history? Write down what you know and remember so people in the future will know and remember, too. </b></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/francesgage.html">Frances Dana Barker Gage</a></b> 1808 ~ 1884</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>over the house, and there fell on the listening ear, "An abolition affair!" </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Woman's rights and niggers!" "I told you so!" "Go it, darkey!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>of the Convention went on. Morning, afternoon, and evening exercises came and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>went. Through all these sessions old Sojourner, quiet and reticent as the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>stairs, her sun-bonnet shading her eyes, her elbows on her knees, her chin </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>resting upon her broad, hard palms. At intermission she was busy selling the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>life. Again and again, timorous and trembling ones came to me and said, with </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>earnestness, "Don't let her speak, Mrs. Gage, it will ruin us. Every </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed up with abolition and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>niggers, and we shall be utterly denounced." My only answer was, "We shall </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The second day the work waxed warm. Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>resolutions presented. One claimed superior rights and privileges for man, on </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>token of His will through the birth, life, and death of the Saviour." Another </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There were very few women in those days who dared to "speak in meeting"; and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the august teachers of the people were seemingly getting the better of us, </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>while the boys in the galleries, and the sneerers among the pews, were hugely </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>enjoying the discomfiture, as they supposed, of the "strong-minded." Some of </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the tender-skinned friends were on the point of losing dignity, and the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sojourner Truth, who, till now, had scarcely lifted her head. "Don't let her </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>speak!" gasped half a dozen in my ear. She moved slowly and solemnly to the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>me. There was a hissing sound of disapprobation above and below. I rose and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>announced "Sojourner Truth," and begged the audience to keep silence for a </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>few moments.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The tumult subsided at once, and every eye was fixed on this almost Amazon </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>form, which stood nearly six feet high, head erect, and eyes piercing the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>upper air like one in a dream. At her first word there was a profound hush. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>She spoke in deep tones, which, though not loud, reached every ear in the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>all dis here talkin' 'bout?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber helps me </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place!" And raising </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>she asked. "And a'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! (and she bared </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). I have </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>a'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>get it--and bear de lash as well! And a'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteen </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Den dey talks 'bout dis ting in de head; what dis dey call it?" </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>("Intellect," whispered some one near.) "Dat's it, honey. What's dat got to </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>do wid womin's rights or nigger's rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>half-measure full?" And she pointed her significant finger, and sent a keen </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>glance at the minister who had made the argument. The cheering was long and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Turning again to another objector, she took up the defense of Mother Eve. I </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>can not follow her through it all. It was pointed, and witty, and solemn; </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>eliciting at almost every sentence deafening applause; and she ended by </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>asserting: "If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em." Long-continued </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>cheering greeted this. "'Bleeged to ye for hearin' on me, and now ole </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sojourner han't got nothin' more to say."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Amid roars of applause, she returned to her corner, leaving more than one of </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>up in her strong arms and carried us safely over the slough of difficulty </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>turning the whole tide in our favor. I have never in my life seen anything </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>like the magical influence that subdued the mobbish spirit of the day, and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>turned the sneers and jeers of an excited crowd into notes of respect and </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>glorious old mother, and bid her God-speed on her mission of "testifyin' agin </b></span></div>
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-14251175310705419042013-02-01T14:47:00.000-08:002013-02-01T14:48:11.372-08:00BLACK HISTORY MONTH No. 1: 12 Cool Things To Know About George Washington Carver<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Education is the key </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>to unlock the golden door </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>of freedom."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"When you do the common things in life </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>in an uncommon way, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>you will command </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>the attention of the world."</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"I love to think of nature as an unlimited </span></i></div>
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1. Around 1865, at the end of the Civil War, when George was an infant, night riders kidnapped him, his sister, and his mom, Mary, from their owners, Moses and Susan Carver. They were farmers down around the village of Diamond Grove, in southwestern Missouri. Moses got people to search for them, but only baby George was recovered.</div>
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2. No one really knows exactly when GWC was born, but we do know that poor baby George nearly died of whooping cough. This may account for his unusually high voice. Toward the end of this <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkx2iHDOHLk">LINK </a></b>you can hear him.</div>
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To read more about GWC, there are plenty of fine books, but please DO check out <i>mine:</i> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Groundbreaking-Chance-Taking-Washington-Invention-Histories/dp/1426301960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359758675&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Groundbreaking%2C+Chance-Taking+Life+of+GEORGE+WASHINGTON+CARVER+and+SCIENCE+and+INVENTION+in+AMERICA.">The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER <i>and</i> SCIENCE and INVENTION in AMERICA. </a> </b><br />
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-44502433020275943992013-01-22T08:45:00.001-08:002013-01-22T08:45:13.291-08:00<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">So true is the knowledge</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">We gain, long after college:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">There is no shame</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">In thinking freely within a considered frame</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">So simple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">And yet – it ain't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">This business of freedom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 18px;">Within constraint.</span></span><br />
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Now that much of the 57th Inauguration is behind us, let me say how much I loved James Taylor's <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbqD3btLiY">America the Beautiful</a>, </i>old Baby Boomer that I am, and the President's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzC135ql_wA" style="font-weight: bold;">speech, </a>and how grateful I am to live on such a day as this. It's not simply that I'm a fan of our current President and his point of view. I am. But Inauguration Day marks a glorious achievement for our bumptious, contentious republic. Peaceful passing of power and all.... <br />
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Truly, it's a big deal, history-wise.Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-70860524163848731462013-01-19T11:18:00.000-08:002013-01-19T11:21:40.292-08:00The 19th of January<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"We live in a rainbow of chaos." </i> <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne">Paul Cezanne</a></b>, the great and complex (I mean LOOK at that intense face!) artist who was born on this day in 1839. Which happened to be the 32nd birthday of a very different, but equally intense (I'd be willing to bet) of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee">C.S. General Robert E. Lee.</a> </b></span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Robert_Edward_Lee.jpg/200px-Robert_Edward_Lee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Robert_Edward_Lee.jpg/200px-Robert_Edward_Lee.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." </i>Robt. E. Lee Jan. 19, 1807 ~ Oct. 12, 1870</span>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-39450025559552659322013-01-11T15:53:00.000-08:002013-01-11T15:53:21.677-08:00 TOP 10 REASONS WHY SOME JERK DID THAT:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I just found out that one of the markers got tagged - sullied. spray-painted. dissed and defaced by one of the neighborhood's many nitwits, of whom, I suppose, we should all be proud because he [I assume it's a 'he' sexist, I know] managed, whilst holding a spray can to get his knuckles high enough off the pavement to write ugly words -<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> "fuck you"</i></span> to be exact - on a panel featuring a painting of mine. and more importantly, the history of this person's town. Why would he do that? </span></span></div>
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-50780441430051003372013-01-09T08:31:00.001-08:002013-01-09T08:31:41.185-08:00Let Him Be a Lesson <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/richardnixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a></b>, born 100 years ago today, 9 Jan. 1913, one of the most interesting political figures EVER. Being that he was so smart and ambitious and never could get past his deep-dyed resentments, being so pissed off about being such a broke, odd-looking outsider. Baby, let this guy be a lesson: Get over yourself before it's too late. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-19949135427383861322013-01-05T08:30:00.002-08:002013-01-05T08:30:21.922-08:00Zeb <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Swell quote and well worth echoing even now. Please God, let everything work out for all the world's countries, being that the world is ever so small<i>. Didn't ol' Zeb have a great face? And don't I hope I get a whole bunch done today? Manuscript revisions. Drawing. Sweeping. Cleaning. Writing. Going to a funeral for an old man who once was a U.S. Marine, embroiled in vicious battles in the South Pacific. May all be well for him in Paradise. I hope he chances to meet Zeb Pike there and all the old soldiers.</i></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"> So, ideally I would have posted at least a paragraph on the first day of 2013, a year which used to sound positively futuristic. Suddenly it's all speculative nonfiction, 365 chapters. 362 now. What did I do w/ the first three installments? Worked on a painting/colored pencil drawing in the style of my illustrations for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Colonial-Year-Cheryl-Harness/dp/0689834799/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357273019&sr=8-1&keywords=Our+Colonial+Year%2C+Cheryl+Harness" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Our Colonial Year</a><b style="font-style: italic;">. </b>Rather quiltish, doncha know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But in this case, the art is for a Laura Ingalls Wilder calendar, for </span><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">2014. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>What on earth will we have experienced by then, for crying out loud? </i></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> • Been sending out postcards, doing my best to alert art directors and editors to <b>1.</b> the fact that I at last have an <b><a href="http://www.cherylharness.com/portfolio.htm">online portfolio. </a> </b>And<b> 2. </b>that it sure would be fun to illustrate a book for somebody. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> • Been watching reruns of reruns of seasons 1 and 2 of <i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/"><b>Downton Abbey</b></a></i> and so cannot wait for Sunday night. So want <b><a href="http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/John_Bates">John Bates</a></b> to be freed from the slammer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> • Shipping some things a few bless-ed customers purchased from my new <b><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/CherylHarness">SHOP</a></b> on Etsy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> • Been procrastinating? Yup. Or else I'd have written something here three days ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wasn't Harry a pistol? I was sitting at my folks' dining room table when we heard the news that he'd died. For years, Harry Truman lived just a few blocks from us. In fact, years later, I'd write Mr. Truman into <i>Just For You to Know</i>, <b><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-for-you-to-know-cheryl-harness/1007618886">my historical novel</a></b>, set here in Independence. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> And now Harry was gone, at age 88. The age that <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgehwbush"><b>Geo. H.W. Bush</b> </a>is now, in intensive care, in a Houston, TX hospital. One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, poor soul. A good and decent public servant all in all and when he goes, as will we all, it'll be the end of a rich chapter in the history of our country. As it surely was when Harry died, that genuine, true-blue husband and citizen. Farmer. Piano-player. Valiant soldier. Overcomer. Politician. Dapper dresser. Lover of history. By golly, those of you who chance to come across this, do give yourself the pleasure of reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCullough">David McCullough</a>'s <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truman-David-McCullough/dp/0671869205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356569584&sr=8-1&keywords=Truman">HST bio, a swift-going, juicy doorstop of a book. </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And too, poor old heartsick, wonderful/horrible <b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a></b>, died just a few weeks later, on the 22nd of January. There's another story and a long one, too. More about LBJ later - and <i>baybee</i> - do check out <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson-Volume/dp/0679729453/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1356570389&sr=8-3&keywords=Robert+Caro">Robt. Caro's books about</a></b> that ol' powermonger. </span><br />
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<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i> "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton">Isaac Newton</a></b></i></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So, 'twas grey and chilly all day yesterday, the eve of the day said to be the world's Last Day. And given all the sorrow of this past week, flowers and teddy bears piled outside an elementary school in New England; pictures of small fizzy children with all of their lives ahead of them; pictures of dedicated educators. I was thinking that, after all, we humans might as well call it a day. If we couldn't look after one another any better than that. But then again, I guess it's always been so: Goodness and glory reside side by side with pissyness, rage and nightmare in the human heart. In this cockeyed caravan. Wasn't it, after all, a horrifying anomaly? Didn't those educators spend their vary last seconds on their own very Last Days, with acts of heroism? But still... I'm haunted by those pictures. How is it that this blessed nation is so violent? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> So, with the setting of the sun and the glowering dark, we had rain. hail. thunder. Scared my dog, Mimi. "Hold me,' she said w/ her trembles and her buggy eyes, front paws on my leg, begging for a cuddle, to save her from the monsters. So, the two of us, me and my 4-legged hot water bottle, cozied under the blankets and quilts. I can't speak for Mimi, but I listened to the sleet rattling against the windows of this old house. I thought about those bereft parents back east and the monsters. About people who defiantly insist that high-powered weapons and an endless bounty of ammo must be available to the citizenry, lest our God-given freedoms, proclaimed for posterity by our nation's Founders, be denied.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> And in the morning, the world was still here, all white and glittering. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> So, let me here give thanks for this day, now that it, too, is just about over, this here First Day of Winter. For an old-timey pot of beans on the stove. Soaked, boiled, simmered with chicken broth, an onion, a chopped up yellow bell pepper, nice & mild, lots of garlic, salt, pepper, sage & thyme, a chopped up tiny tin of Spam, a bit o' red pepper for heat. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Around me, outside in the cold dark neighborhood, kids are sleeping in their beds. Some of the neighbors have festooned their houses with light and glamour. There are Christmas trees in the windows. Not in mine, though. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Such things aren't as interesting to me as all my scheming, painting, and typing, hunkering over my computer up here in my studio. How will I celebrate the holiday? I'll reread the chapter in LH on the P where Mr. Edwards meets Santa Claus. I'll watch <i><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039190/">The Bishop's Wife</a></b></i> again and love David Niven and Cary Grant. Gift-wise, I'll bake gingerbread for the neighbors. And I spent the last 3 days researching & compiling all of the genealogical hoohah I've collected, put it all into 7 or 8 generations of my mom & dad's lines, into a family chart. then I went out today, stepping ginger around the ice, & got copies made for the sibs & such. Talked w/ my mom's 90 year old cousin, a former schoolteacher who remembered when Uncle Jimmy Wolfe was born. (March 27, 1923, up in northern Colorado, where once the buffalo grazed and thundered.) Stirring it was to read about my sharpshooting 18th Century ancestor, <b><a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WVHARDY/2009-09/1254156986">Captain John Harness</a>, </b>forced to do battle with fierce native warriors, forced to do battle with all of the settlers moving into their lands, known to the foreigners as 'Virginia.'<b> </b>About Rebecca Amelia Brown, b. 1842, a Pennsylvania Quaker/Underground Railroader. About little Emma Wolfe, sent west on an orphan train after her mama died and her at-his-wits-end dad couldn't take care of his kids, one of 'em being my redheaded grandpa, who sailed off to the Western Front to take part in the Great War, that vicious, useless, muddy, deadly, deafening, ridiculous war, so grainy and quaint-looking in the photographs, then came home to marry his dark haired sweetheart, Eulah Brown of Cameron, MO. 'Girly' he called her in his letters. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">About Alden Harness, b. 1862, when another war was tearing up the Missouri countryside. Oh well, anyway, he stayed around in MO long enough to sire my other grandpa, then took off to western parts unknown. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> And anyway, darkly satisfying it was, typing, cutting, and pasting family trees, decorated with choirs of ancestors. Mailing 'em off, lest the memories be lost, to the present generation, going through this present season of bright and dark. Christmas trees, huh? </span><br />
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Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-57388784011661623622012-12-20T09:09:00.003-08:002012-12-20T09:09:27.372-08:00Snow Day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh my gosh, we've at last had SNOW! I got not one but 2 invitations to take part in a snowball fight w/ the neighborhood kids, but, I assured them, I'm a pacifist/noncombatant. And today's the anniversary of the day, in 1823, when poor old <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd">Dr. Samuel Mudd</a></b> was born. And the anniversary of<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck"> John Steinbeck's </a></b>death day, in 1968. Sigh...</span>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-57047565620418928292012-12-17T10:02:00.000-08:002012-12-17T10:02:06.112-08:0017 December<span style="font-size: large;">So, m'dears, we've come through a painful and sorrowful weekend from which I escaped into a <b><i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/">Downton Abbey</a></i></b> marathon on PBS. That and drawing, painting a piece for my proposed Laura Ingalls Wilder calendar, for 2014, should our world be around that long. For now, I invite you to check out my monthly <b><a href="http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/2012/12/patch-patch-patch.html">post </a></b>on a splendid group blog, I.N.K. This link, <a href="http://inkthinktank.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Interesting Nonfiction for Kids </a>will take you to<b> www.inkthinktank.com, </b>which grew out of the blog, where you will find such remarkable authors as <b><a href="http://www.jimmurphybooks.com/">Jim Murphy</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.vickicobb.com/">Vicki Cobb</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://deborahheiligman.com/">Deborah Heiligman.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for today's birthday dudes & dudettes, I'll just note the English chemist, <b><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCdavy.htm">Humphry Davy</a></b>, b. 17 Dec. 1778, and Victorian poet, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a></b>, b. this day in 1807. Considering recent happenings, here's an apt quote of his: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'</i></span>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8667080373202895464.post-7018521941294352712012-12-16T04:33:00.000-08:002012-12-16T04:56:19.916-08:00The 16 December Door in the Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life...Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels..."There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort..."A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." adorable novelist, <b><a href="http://www.janeausten.org/">Jane Austen</a></b>, b. 16 Dec. 1775</span><br />
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I </i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>do </i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;">not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help." </i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; it's the only thing that ever has..."We have nowhere else to go...this is all we have."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead">Margaret Mead</a></b>, b. 16 Dec. 1901</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give..."Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." </i>Amen to that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> author, <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick">Philip K. Dick</a></b>, b. 16 Dec. 1928</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Depression is rage spread thin [oh my gosh, I love that and how, how true]..."A child educated only at school is an uneducated child..."Only the dead have seen the end of war..."To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." </i> </span>[I'm thinking of <i>you</i>, cannot help but think of you, GWB, your VP, and the thousands who departed this world by way of Iraq. CH]<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine that lights the pathway but one step ahead."</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">poet, professor, philosopher, <a href="http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/santayana.php"><b>George Santayana</b>,</a> b. 16 Dec. 1863, the day the Confederacy named Gen. Joe Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Cheryl Harnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304712481691077891noreply@blogger.com0