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Black History

~All Year~

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate,

only love can do that."

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Black History

Month 2023

(Purple text = hot links)

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The "Sugar Shack"

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RAY CHARLES

and the

Voices of Jubilation

"Oh Happy Days"

A TIME CAPSULE MOMENT

in Black American History

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Vice-President Kamala Harris

46th Vice-President

of the United States

First African-American/

Asian-American Woman Vice-President

Sworn-in: January 20, 2021

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"The Hill We Climb"

by Amanda Gorman, Poet

Inauguration of President Joe Biden and

Vice-President Kamala Harris

January 20, 2021, Washington, D.C

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President Barack Obama

44th President

of the United States

First African-American President

Sworn in, First Term: January 20, 2009

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President Obama

Addresses British Parliment

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President Obama's

Final Whitehouse

Correspondent's Dinner Speech

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of

our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

― Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. King's Interview with NBC News

Part of the Special Report:

"After Civil Rights: Black Power"

Interviewed by Sander Vanocur on May 8, 1967

at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.

Watch HERE on Youtube

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Dr. King's... "I Have a Dream" Speech

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run

then walk, if you can't walk then crawl,

but whatever you do, you have to

keep moving forward.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around"

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President Lyndon B. Johnson

signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act

July 2, 1964

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Visit the

Martin Luther King Jr.

National Memorial

in Washington D.C.

Memorial Website Info

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African-American Civil Rights Network

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Morehouse College

"We Shall Overcome"

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15 Untold Black History Inventors

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Berry Gordy

Founder, Motown Records

Click on Photograph

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The Thornton Sisters

The Thornton Sisters performing on the "Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour" TV show in 1959. Featuring mother Tass Thornton- upright bass, Donna (age 14)- tenor sax, Jeanette (13)- guitar, Yvonne (11)- alto sax, and Linda (9)- drums.

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University of Louisville

Anne Braden Institute

for Social Justice

Research

University of Louisville

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~ Kentucky Stops Along The Trail ~

Louisville

Demonstrations, sit-ins, and strategic planning

focused on ending segregation in public accomodations

capped by voter campaign strategies aimed at replacing

certain local government office holders who showed

contempt for basic civil rights for African-Americans.

Simpsonville

Whitney Young, native Kentuckian, noted for his

fight against employment discrimination in the south,

became the President of the National Urban League;

and led the organization to national prominence

and involvement in the civil rights struggle.

Berea. KY

Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, established in 1855

by abolitionists, was the first interracial and coeducational college in the south. It remained true to its mission until

1904, when the Kentucky General Assembly targeted

Berea by passing the “Day Law” prohibiting interracial education in private institutions.

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