in many responses/poems members have dropped some names of some important folks that helped us threw out history.....

so im starting this thread so we can have a list of thses important folks... so the mext time somone asks ... where should they start in leanring bout they culture ... they can start here... wit this list.....

so please dont be shy and leave some names u admire... or kno about.....


i guess i'll start

Malcom X
john lewis
king
asssata
angela davis
huey newton
richard wright
du bois
afeni shakur
dikc greggory
oprah
rosa parks
barbara jordan
phillis wheatley
eldridge cleaver
medgar evers
james meridith
spike lee
langston hughes
jmaes farmer
julian bond
thurgood marshall
richard pryor
cicely tyson
shirley chisholm
james bevel
the big six
bayard rustin
jfk
harry belofante
sncc
naacp
sclc
bloody sunday
james baldwin
mandela
core
bull conner- didnt do any good for us- but thats the piont of knowledge
gandhi
antlanta inquirer
:geek:

ok im getting carried away will cme back to this later........

jus curious to kno.. y people can view this thread and not respond back... i see this thread as being very benificial and educational.. and i kno we all kno some folks to add to the list.. so why is it not happening.. jus curious

Trust me daroc:

There are many threads and posts on here that were started by people, and got no responses. So don't feel alone in it. When you are starting a thread and you expect people to respond to it, just be as convincing and persuasive as possible. Also, give people some time. They will come along, sayeth the lord. Trust me.

Cedric Denson

You posted alot of names that inspired so much. Not saying that these people inspired me, but just so that all can see them:

Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B. DuBois)
Ida B. Wells
Ossie Davis
Marcus Garvey
Maya Angelou
Booker T. Washington
Amiri Baraka
Zora Neale Hurston
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Paul Robeson
Frederick Douglass
and so on.

thanks for the advice cedric...

and thanks for the names.... thats all i was asking fo.. thanks cedric

Highly appreciated. I am here for you and the rest of the forum like a true brotha.

Daroc,
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thnak u brotha oldsoul i def will explore dat list when i get some mo time..thanks

Daroc,
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In the Obelisk (http://whgbetc.com/obelisk), you can find links to information about virtually everyone who's been listed in above posts, and much, much more.
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Pretty interesting stuff man. You know, I just want to commend you Old Soul on your excellent performance as a 'true professor' for Destee. Keep filling us in.

I guess this is like Honoring the Ancestors, or something, but this thread has deep meaning, particularly reading some of the names posted... Below are the names of ORDINARY BLACK SOUTHERNERS who rose to meet the EXTRAORDINARY challenge of ending a 350 years long nightmare... Peops, I wanna know can y'all match these 137 names up with the events they were a part or or the organizations which they belonged, and when???(smile!) It's a well-schooled individual who could match every name with an event... I copied these names from my readings, and I can't even remember what everybody did!!! However, if anyone gets stumped, or just wants to test me to see how much I still know, go right ahead...


2. Abraham Woods, Jr.
3. Addie Mae Collins
4. Amzie Moore
5. Andrew Young
6. Angeline Butler
7. Annie Devine
8. Arthur Shores
9. Asa Philip Randolph
10. Authurine lucy
11. Bernard Lafayette
12. Bob Moses
13. Carole Robertson
14. Charles Hamilton Houston
15. Charles Sherrod
16. Charles(Chuck)McDew
17. Clennnon King
18. Clyde Kennard
19. Colonel Stone Johnson
20. Curtis Hayes
21. Curtis Murphy
22. Cynthia Wesley
23. David Dennis
24. David Richmond
25. Denise McNair
26. Dewey Greene,Jr.
27. Diane Nash
28. Dorie Ladner
29. Dr. Dorie Ladner
30. Dr. Gilbert R. Mason
31. Dr. Martin Luther King
32. Dr. MinnieJean Brown
33. Dr. T.J. Jemison(United Defense League, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
34. Dr. T.R.M. Howard
35. E.W. Steptoe
36. El Fondren
37. Ezell Blair, Jr.(Jibreel Khazan)
38. Frank Dukes(student leader, who worked with Shuttlesworth of Birmingham boycotts)
39. Franklin McCain
40. Frazier B. Baker
41. George Greene
42. Gus Courts
43. Herbert Lee
44. Hollis Watkins
45. Hosea Williams
46. Ivanhoe Donaldson
47. J.L. Chestnut
48. Jake McGhee
49. James Bevel
50. James Chaney
51. James Farmer
52. James Forman
53. James Meredith
54. James T. Montgomery(acmhr)
55. Jesse Jackson
56. Jim Forman
57. John Lewis
58. Joseph McNeil
59. Joyce Ladner
60. Julian Bond
61. June Johnson
62. Kwame Ture(Stockley Carmichael)
63. Lamar Smith
64. Lawrence Guyott
65. Marion Barry
66. Medgar Evers
67. Melba Patillo-Beals
68. Mr. A. Maceo Smith
69. Mr. Aaron Henry
70. Mr. Bayard Rustin
71. Mr. Cleve Jordan
72. Mr. Dewey Greene, Sr.
73. Mr. **** Gregory
74. Mr. E.D. Nixon
75. Mr. Ernest Green
76. Mr. Esau Jenkins(Citzenship Schools, johns Island, South Carolina)
77. Mr. Harry T. Moore
78. Mr. John McCray
79. Mr. Rufus Lewis
80. Mr. Sam Boynton
81. Mr. Wiley A. Branton
82. Mr. Z. Alexander Looby
83. Mrs. Amelia Boynton
84. Mrs. Amelia Boynton
85. Mrs. Anne Moody
86. Mrs. Arance Williamson
87. Mrs. Bernice Robinson
88. Mrs. Daisy Gaston Bates
89. Mrs. Dorothy Cotton

90. Mrs. Elizabeth Eckford
91. Mrs. Ella Jo Baker
92. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
93. Mrs. Harriette Moore
94. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
95. Mrs. Joann Gibson-Robinson
96. Mrs. Josephine Ruffin
97. Mrs. Laura McGhee
98. Mrs. Lo Emma Allen
99. Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley
100. Mrs. Rosa Parks
101. Mrs. Rosebud Lee
102. Mrs. Ruby Doris Robinson
103. Mrs. Ruby Shuttlesworth
104. Mrs. Septima Clark
105. Mrs. Susie Morgan
106. Mrs. Victoria Gray
107. Ms. Endesha Ida Mae Holland
108. Ms. Georgia Price(acmhr)
109. Ms. Lola Hendricks(acmhr)
110. Ms. Lucinda Robey(acmhr)
111. Mrs. Unita Blackwell
112. Osceola McKaine
113. Perry W. Howard
114. Postmaster General, John S. Clarkson
115. Rev. C.K. Steele
116. Rev. C.T. Vivian
117. Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
118. Rev. George Lee
119. Rev. J.S. Phifer(acmhr)
120. Rev. James Lawson
121. Rev. Kelly Miller Smth
122. Rev. T.L. Lane(acmhr)
123. Rev. Vernon Johns
124. Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
125. Robert F. Williams
126. Robert T. Carter
127. Roscoe Dunjee
128. S.S. Mincey
129. Sam Block
130. Sidney R. Redmond
131. Silas McGhee
132. Spottswood Robinson
133. Thurgood Marshall
134. Vernon Dahmer
135. Wharlest Jackson
136. Willie Wazir Peacock
137. Dr. Robert Hayling


Peace!
Zeke

Now, see, I feel stupid. Out of 137, I might know 10. I blame the public education system! :) No, really, I have a lot of learning, or rather, UN-learning, to do....

Thank you for posting this list, Brutha I. While I do have knowledge of many on this list, there are also many I don't know and I'm now in the process of learning about. That's the good part (being able to learn about people who will only cause me to be more 'full').

y'ight, I'm going to begin the process of matching the first 10 names with the events or organizations they were a part of... Y'all can hit us off with the names you know, and the events... Let's have some school, here, peops!!! If you're wrong, so what, that's how we all learn a lil somethin' somethin'...(smile!)

2. Abraham Woods, Jr.
member of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, the organization Fred Shuttlesworth started after the NAACP was banned in the state of Alabama...

3. Addie Mae Collins
one of the 4 little Black girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 16, 1963...

4. Amzie Moore
one of my favorite unsung Africans of the Civil Rights Movement. This Mississippian returned home from WWII to join the NAACP in Cleveland, Mississippi, and became it's head. He worked in the U.S. Postal system, but owned a diner, Beauty Parlor, and Gas Station... Brother Mr. Moore, through all of his businesses, was able to provide funding and encouragement for SNCC and Bob Moses, and it was he who gave lodging to Black reporters who had come down to cover the Emmett Till Trial... Mr. Moore's story of fearlessness should be found and read by every African at this board... We talk about Dr. King, and all of the famous ones, but it was brothers like this man who kept the flame alive, financially and spiritually, in the state of Mississippi...

5. Andrew Young
Y'all know who Andy Young is - I hope!(smile!) U.N. Ambassador, but formerly Dr. King's right-hand man in Souther Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)

6. Angeline Butler
Among the charter members of SNCC down in Knoxville, Tennessee, she participated in the first sit-ins there, and later became an actress...

7. Annie Devine
One of the Founding mothers of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and fierce figher for justice in that state...

8. Arthur Shores
Arthur Shores was, originally, an NAACP attorney who represented Ms. Authurine Lucy, when she tried to integrate the University of Alabama in 1955, or so. He also represented the cantankerous one, my hero, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth for a time...

9. Asa Philip Randolph
Well, if you don't know this man, you need to get to the library quick, and read his life story... Simply superlative human being, a socialist and the first president of the Sleeping Car Porters Union... A Shakesperean actor, whose stenotorian tones and meliflous voice made him the envy of any who ever heard him speak... One of the major organizers of The March On Washington in 1963, and one which was planned and aborted in 1943, because of the war effort. A fierce champion for African people, and the contempory of most every powerful African American leader of the 20th century, including Garvey, DuBois, Washington, King, and Muhammad, and Malcolm... He outlived them all, living to the age of 90(1887-1977)

10. Authurine lucy
Attempted to integrate Alabama University in the early 1950's...

11. Bernard Lafayette
Another one of my favorites is this man... A slight and frail 19-year old bible student, a contemporary of John Lewis, and one of the original sit-in student's from Tennessee State, Bernard Lafayette possessed the nerve of ninja assassin... It was he who organized African Americans to vote down in Selma, Alabama, after being black-jacked into unconsciousness by two white men who'd asked him to check out their stalled vehicle, with the intent to put him their trunk, and finish the job away form prying eyes... He walked through the town in his bloodied tee-shirt for a week, stitches in his head exposed, to demonstrate to Black folks that he and SNCC were for real... During the Christmas holidays following those first sit-ins in Knoxville, He and John Lewis rode to their hometowns in Alabama and Florida by Greyhound, sitting in the front, and refusing to move. They made it home safely and soundly, these two African American teenagers with balls of steel, and we're all richer for it today...

Whew, hope I clarified a thing or two!(smile!) Be black with some more, but in the meantime...

Peace!
Isaiah

awesome list indeed just a few more to add to this awesome list of greats
Gwyndolin Brooks
Morgan Freeman
Aretha Franklin
Marcus Clay
Danny Glover

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a militant civil rights fighter and crusading journalist who fought against lynching.born July 16, 1863 in Holly Springs, Mississippi the oldest in a family of eight children. Her parents had been slaves.

she became a partner in the free speech and traveled the southern states as a correspondent.

In 1895 she published a Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged cases of Lynching in the United States, 1892 - 1894.

Her husband was Ferdinand Lee Barnett an an attorney an politician, founder and editor of the Chicago Conservator and in 1896, an assistant state's attorney.

and i think she lived in Chicago and they name a housing project after her and she was cited as one of the twenty-five outstanding women in the city's history.


ok thas all i know on her....i cheated a little my daughter did a report or her last year in school...:) i will go back over the list anyone else i know in detail i will add....if thats ok Brother Isaiah..i mean it is your list..ya know (smile) :coffee:

^5 Great thread Daroc!!!!!

Peace
Angel

*taking notes*

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a militant civil rights fighter and crusading journalist who fought against lynching.born July 16, 1863 in Holly Springs, Mississippi the oldest in a family of eight children. Her parents had been slaves.

she became a partner in the free speech and traveled the southern states as a correspondent.

In 1895 she published a Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged cases of Lynching in the United States, 1892 - 1894.

Her husband was Ferdinand Lee Barnett an an attorney an politician, founder and editor of the Chicago Conservator and in 1896, an assistant state's attorney.

and i think she lived in Chicago and they name a housing project after her and she was cited as one of the twenty-five outstanding women in the city's history.


ok thas all i know on her....i cheated a little my daughter did a report or her last year in school...:) i will go back over the list anyone else i know in detail i will add....if thats ok Brother Isaiah..i mean it is your list..ya know (smile) :coffee:

^5 Great thread Daroc!!!!!

Peace
Angel

You go, Sista! Ida B. Wells-Barnett is one of my great Sheroes! She was less than 5 feet tall, but that woman made folks quake in their boots - especially men(smile!) Reading her biography I was stunned by how many brothers were chasing after her in her early years, but because of her career objectives, she hadn't much time for them(smile!) If that wasn't the 1880's I wouldn't be so stunned, but she was so no non-sense as a young lady, who had raised her brothers and sisters after both her parents died when she was like 16... Just a lotta Black woman in a very small package, man... Couldn't do much but admire this woman, especially after reading how she bit the hand of that white cat that tried to remove her from the train she was riding(smile!) Feisty aint the word, man!(smile!) She was Fierce!

Peace!
isaiah

Now, see, I feel stupid. Out of 137, I might know 10. I blame the public education system! :) No, really, I have a lot of learning, or rather, UN-learning, to do....

You don't have to feel stupid. We have all been brainwashed by America. We are just in the process of digging our History back up bit by bit. Soon, we will know alot about our people. The school system will not teach us about it, our children, about it, and their children about it. We have to educate ourselves. Those names were lost, but you see how the strong black people found them? Just learn about those people right here and now so that you can pass it on to your children.

did we forget about this sistah i notice she wan't on anyone list less i over
looked her name.....

Miss Jane Pittman

dang...rich sometimes i swear u read my mind... i was just overlooking this thread...

ill be back to spit some history and help continue the list isaiah began

12. Bob Moses
Robert Moses was born in 1935 in Harlem. He had strong academic skills so was able to attend a competitive private high school. He then attended Hamilton College and went on to earn a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard. During his studies, Moses traveled abroad and was exposed to the ideals of pacifism.In 1960 he began particaipating innm various sit-ins. Over the next year, he moved to Atlanta to join SNCC. He actively participated in sit-ins, and voter registration programs with SNCC and NAACP. Today he still helps the community, with deep involvement in school reform.

13. Carole Robertson
One of the victums of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.She died along with three other girls: Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins in 1963.

14. Charles Hamilton Houston
Some of his acheivements include:
Army officer during World War I
Entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1919
The first black editor of the Harvard Law Review(1923)
Went to the University of Madrid to do post-doctoral work in law
Became dean of Howard Law School
He went on to argue a number of improtant cases in the Supreme Court:
Hollins v. Oklahoma
Hale v. Kentucky
Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada
Steele v. Louisville & Nashville RR.
Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
Hurd v. Dodge
Shelley v. Kramer

to be continued...

Assata Shakur
Living in Cuba since 1986, after escaping from prison where she was serving a life sentence imposed in a highly disputed trial. Assata was a Black Panther then a Black Liberation Army (BLA) leader in the early '70s, so she was a target of the FBI's COINTELPRO operation. Assata was captured in a shoot-out resulting from resistance to yet another "driving while black" police action in 1973 on the New Jersey State Turnpike. This time a State Trooper was killed. Zayd Shakur, traveling in the car with Assata, was also killed.
Dorie Ladner- Social Worker: The initials SNCC stood for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was formed by a group of students from across the South who had come together to integrate public facilities. Lunch counters, busses.

JOYCE LADNER, Brookings Institution: Many of them went on the freedom rides into Mississippi and they were arrested and sent to Parchman State Penitentiary. So when they got out of prison, some of them stayed on in Mississippi to organize for voter registration.

Dr. MinnieJean Brown-
one of a group of African-American teenagers known as the “Little Rock Nine,” on September 25, 1957 , under the gaze of 1,200 armed soldiers and a worldwide audience, faced down an angry mob and helped to desegregate Central High. This seminal event in American history was just the beginning of Minniejean’s long career as a crusader for civil rights. She has spent her life fighting for the rights of minority groups and the dispossessed. For her work, she has received the U.S. Congressional Medal, the Wolf Award, the Spingarn Medal, and many other citations and awards. Under the Clinton administration, she served for a time as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior responsible for diversity. Currently, she lives in Little Rock, AR and is continuing her work for civil rights and social equality.

Mrs. Amelia Boynton-
Bridge Across Jordan” is the account of Mrs. Robinson's life-long struggle for civil rights and human rights for citizens of all colors.Amelia Boynton Robinson is perhaps best known as the woman at the front of the march who was gassed, beaten, and left for dead on Edmund Pettus Bridge, during the “Bloody Sunday” march on March 7, 1965 to Montgomery, Alabama, which quickly led to the mushrooming of the civil rights movement into an international mass movement.


87. Mrs. Bernice Robinson-
The implementation of citizenship schools on the sea islands of South Carolina can be attributed to the efforts of Charleston native Bernice Robinson. Citizenship education was an integral segment of the philosophy of Highlander Folk School which was established in Monteagle, Tennessee in 1932. The school did not use curriculum, grades or diplomas. It emphasized problem solving. Bernice Robinson was trained in citizenship education at Highlander Folk School

88. Mrs. Daisy Gaston Bates-
As the president of the Arkansas state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branches, Daisy Bates symbolized the legal fight to desegregate the public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that found segregated schools unconstitutional. Mrs. Bates combined her public roles as the state NAACP president and co-publisher (with her husband) of the Arkansas State Press to become a mentor to the nine teenagers (now known as the Little Rock Nine) who ultimately desegregated Central High School. During the desegregation crisis, the Bates' home became the official pick-up and drop-off site for the Little Rock Nine's trips to and from Central High School each school day, and consequently, a gathering spot for the Nine and members of the press.



90. Mrs. Elizabeth Eckford
On 4th September, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African American students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School, a school that previously had only accepted white children. In 1958 Elizabeth Eckford moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she achieved the necessary qualifications to study for a B.A. in history. After university she became the first African American in St. Louis to work in a bank in a non-janitorial position.


91. Mrs. Ella Jo Baker
Considered the single most influential woman in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, Ella Jo Baker worked tirelessly for 50 years as a behind-the-scenes organizer, without concern for personal recognition or publicity. She was the Director of Branches of the NAACP for almost 20 years, and also helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

92. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer-co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). In 1964, the MDFP challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Hamer spoke in front of the Credentials Committee in a televised proceeding that reached millions of viewers. She told the committee how African-Americans in many states across the country were prevented from voting through illegal tests, taxes and intimidation. As a result of her speech, two delegates of the MFDP were given speaking rights at the convention and the other members were seated as honorable guests.

93. Mrs. Harriette Moore
In 1951, Harry and Harriette Moore were fighting for the rights of African Americans by registering Black voters and speaking out against school segregation. As was common in the Jim Crow South, civil rights activism cost them their lives. Harry Moore died on Dec. 25 on the way to the hospital. Harriette died nine days later. No one was ever convicted of their murders.

Let us not forget our Queen Mother DESTEE :welldone:

in reference of Black History month.. i feel it is only appropriate we bring this back around... and continue to work on this list