Africa history made (Marejeo)
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Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola) was a powerful monarch who successfully kept the Portuguese out of her land for 35 years.
In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) Nzinga conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory. Nzinga led her warriors in battle until her sixties and defied numerous assassination attempts to die peacefully in her sleep at 81 in 1663.
Nzinga impact was so strong that she prevented the Portuguese from reaching deep into Southwest Africa until her death. Angola would finally be free of Portuguese control centuries later in 1975.
#BlackHistory #BlackQueen
In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) Nzinga conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory. Nzinga led her warriors in battle until her sixties and defied numerous assassination attempts to die peacefully in her sleep at 81 in 1663.
Nzinga impact was so strong that she prevented the Portuguese from reaching deep into Southwest Africa until her death. Angola would finally be free of Portuguese control centuries later in 1975.
#BlackHistory #BlackQueen
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George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma in 1948, was forced to sit in a corner far from his white classmates.
But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the three best students of the university. These are his words: "Some colleagues would look at me like I was an animal, no one would give me a word, the teachers seemed like they were not even there for me, nor did they always take my questions when I asked. But I devoted myself so much that afterwards, they began to look for me to give them explanations and to clear their questions."
Lesson: Forcing yourself to be accepted by people is a waste of time. Just focus and add value to yourself and people shall come seeking your help..
Guys let's get our YouTube channel (YT: Historical Africa) to 10k subscribers. Kindly click on the link to subscribe. [emoji120] https://youtube.com/c/HistoricalAfrica
But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the three best students of the university. These are his words: "Some colleagues would look at me like I was an animal, no one would give me a word, the teachers seemed like they were not even there for me, nor did they always take my questions when I asked. But I devoted myself so much that afterwards, they began to look for me to give them explanations and to clear their questions."
Lesson: Forcing yourself to be accepted by people is a waste of time. Just focus and add value to yourself and people shall come seeking your help..
Guys let's get our YouTube channel (YT: Historical Africa) to 10k subscribers. Kindly click on the link to subscribe. [emoji120] https://youtube.com/c/HistoricalAfrica
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Mekatilili wa Menza was a prophetess and fearless warrior who led her people, the Giriama, to rebel against British imperialism. Born in the 1860s, she is remembered for slapping a British colonial administrator after disagreement over their imperialist policies and attempts to subdue them.
Mekatilili wa Menza the Mother of resistance, a heroine from Kenya, who rebelled and fought the colonial invaders. She once said " I am not afraid to speak the truth and fight for my people. My powers come from Kaya, rooted in the spirits of our ancestors"
She was a distinguished, vocal and fearless leader and defended the rights of her people the Giriama by putting up a resistance from the white invaders of their land.
She led the Giriama uprising against the British colonist. Who were stealing big fertile lands from the people, collecting taxes from the people and their banning of the local brew palm wine(mnazi).
Mekatilili used kifudu dance which was performed during funeral ceremonies to mobilize the people to resist the colonial government or offer forced labor. An oath taking was administered to her followers to bind them to fight for their community and for their lands.
The first time she was captured by the white men and detained in kisii Kenya where she managed to find her way back home after five years and the struggle for freedom continued.
The second time she was captured and detained in Kismayu in Somali but she still managed to find her way back home and the struggle for liberation continued.
She died around 1925 and was buried at Bungale Ulaya Kwa Jele in Magarini constituency Malindi district. where a cultural festival was held in her honor.
#blackhistory
Mekatilili wa Menza the Mother of resistance, a heroine from Kenya, who rebelled and fought the colonial invaders. She once said " I am not afraid to speak the truth and fight for my people. My powers come from Kaya, rooted in the spirits of our ancestors"
She was a distinguished, vocal and fearless leader and defended the rights of her people the Giriama by putting up a resistance from the white invaders of their land.
She led the Giriama uprising against the British colonist. Who were stealing big fertile lands from the people, collecting taxes from the people and their banning of the local brew palm wine(mnazi).
Mekatilili used kifudu dance which was performed during funeral ceremonies to mobilize the people to resist the colonial government or offer forced labor. An oath taking was administered to her followers to bind them to fight for their community and for their lands.
The first time she was captured by the white men and detained in kisii Kenya where she managed to find her way back home after five years and the struggle for freedom continued.
The second time she was captured and detained in Kismayu in Somali but she still managed to find her way back home and the struggle for liberation continued.
She died around 1925 and was buried at Bungale Ulaya Kwa Jele in Magarini constituency Malindi district. where a cultural festival was held in her honor.
#blackhistory
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DR Congo [emoji1078]
Facts about DR Congo, the richest Country with Natural Resources in the world [emoji1078]
1. Music is its biggest export
2. Kinshasa is world's second largest French speaking city.
3. The oldest national park in Africa is the Congo’s Virunga National Park.
4. Kinshasa and Brazaville are the world's closest capitals.
5. The Wildlife is Phenomenal
6. The Congo isn't overrun by the Ebola Virus
7. Congo played a role in World War II
8. DRC is one of the Countries in East and Central Africa where one can find the Mountain Gorillas and the Eastern Lowland Gorillas.
9. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa. It borders nine countries: Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
10. The people of the DRC represent over 200 ethnic groups, with nearly 250 languages and dialects spoken throughout the Country.
#iloveafrica #myroots #myhome #myheritage #drcongo #drc #Africa
Facts about DR Congo, the richest Country with Natural Resources in the world [emoji1078]
1. Music is its biggest export
2. Kinshasa is world's second largest French speaking city.
3. The oldest national park in Africa is the Congo’s Virunga National Park.
4. Kinshasa and Brazaville are the world's closest capitals.
5. The Wildlife is Phenomenal
6. The Congo isn't overrun by the Ebola Virus
7. Congo played a role in World War II
8. DRC is one of the Countries in East and Central Africa where one can find the Mountain Gorillas and the Eastern Lowland Gorillas.
9. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa. It borders nine countries: Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
10. The people of the DRC represent over 200 ethnic groups, with nearly 250 languages and dialects spoken throughout the Country.
#iloveafrica #myroots #myhome #myheritage #drcongo #drc #Africa
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The woman has been identified as Louisa Jenkins, smoking a cigarette as the police try to question her at a protest in 1957.
The Black Past website has more:
Louise Jenkins Meriwether, a novelist, essayist, journalist and social activist, was the only daughter of Marion Lloyd Jenkins and his wife, Julia. Meriwether was born May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, New York to parents who were from South Carolina where her father worked as a painter and a bricklayer and her mother worked as a domestic.
After the stock market crash of October 24, 1929, Louise’s family migrated from Haverstraw to New York City. They moved to Brooklyn first, and later to Harlem. The third of five children, Louise grew up in the decade of the Great Depression, a time that would deeply affect her young life and ultimately influence her as a writer.
Despite her family’s financial plight, Louise Jenkins attended Public School 81 in Harlem and graduated from Central Commercial High School in downtown Manhattan. In the 1950’s, she received a B.A. degree in English from New York University before meeting and marrying Angelo Meriwether, a Los Angeles teacher. Although this marriage and a later marriage to Earle Howe ended in divorce, Louise continues to use the Meriwether name. In 1965, Louise earned an M.A. degree in journalism from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Meriwether was hired by Universal Studios in the 1950’s to became the first black story analyst in Hollywood’s history. Beginning in the early 1960’s, Meriwether also wrote and published articles in the Los Angeles Sentinel on African Americans such as opera singer Grace Bumbry, Attorney Audrey Boswell, and Los Angeles jurist, Judge Vaino Spencer. In 1967, Meriwether joined the Watts Writers’ Workshop (a group created in response to the Watts Riot of 1965) and worked as a staff member of that project.
Her first book, Daddy Was a Number Runner, a fictional account of the economic devastation of Harlem in the Great Depression, appeared in 1970 as the first novel to emerge from the Watts Writers’ Workshop. It received favorable reviews from authors James Baldwin and Paule Marshall. Daddy Was a Number Runner, is a fictional account of the historical and sociological devastation of the economic Depression on Harlem residents.
Meriwether followed with the publication of three historical biographies for children on civil war hero Robert Smalls (1971), pioneer heart surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1972) and civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1973). In addition to numerous short stories, Meriwether published novels, Fragments of the Ark (1994) and Shadow Dancing (2000). Louise Meriwether has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Houston. She is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.
The Black Past website has more:
Louise Jenkins Meriwether, a novelist, essayist, journalist and social activist, was the only daughter of Marion Lloyd Jenkins and his wife, Julia. Meriwether was born May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, New York to parents who were from South Carolina where her father worked as a painter and a bricklayer and her mother worked as a domestic.
After the stock market crash of October 24, 1929, Louise’s family migrated from Haverstraw to New York City. They moved to Brooklyn first, and later to Harlem. The third of five children, Louise grew up in the decade of the Great Depression, a time that would deeply affect her young life and ultimately influence her as a writer.
Despite her family’s financial plight, Louise Jenkins attended Public School 81 in Harlem and graduated from Central Commercial High School in downtown Manhattan. In the 1950’s, she received a B.A. degree in English from New York University before meeting and marrying Angelo Meriwether, a Los Angeles teacher. Although this marriage and a later marriage to Earle Howe ended in divorce, Louise continues to use the Meriwether name. In 1965, Louise earned an M.A. degree in journalism from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Meriwether was hired by Universal Studios in the 1950’s to became the first black story analyst in Hollywood’s history. Beginning in the early 1960’s, Meriwether also wrote and published articles in the Los Angeles Sentinel on African Americans such as opera singer Grace Bumbry, Attorney Audrey Boswell, and Los Angeles jurist, Judge Vaino Spencer. In 1967, Meriwether joined the Watts Writers’ Workshop (a group created in response to the Watts Riot of 1965) and worked as a staff member of that project.
Her first book, Daddy Was a Number Runner, a fictional account of the economic devastation of Harlem in the Great Depression, appeared in 1970 as the first novel to emerge from the Watts Writers’ Workshop. It received favorable reviews from authors James Baldwin and Paule Marshall. Daddy Was a Number Runner, is a fictional account of the historical and sociological devastation of the economic Depression on Harlem residents.
Meriwether followed with the publication of three historical biographies for children on civil war hero Robert Smalls (1971), pioneer heart surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1972) and civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1973). In addition to numerous short stories, Meriwether published novels, Fragments of the Ark (1994) and Shadow Dancing (2000). Louise Meriwether has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Houston. She is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.
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Kunta Kinte, “the African,” is a character in the 1976 novel Roots. He was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America. He was a member of the highly respected Kinte clan of the Mandinka people of the Gambia [emoji1108]
A warrior who was educated, clever, skilled, strong, resilient and proud, he was a young man of immense courage that empower him when he was captured by slavers. Kunta never accepted the name and religion given to him by his slave master and he never gave up on his dream of returning to his homeland and he challenged other enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
Kunta Kinte, “the African,” is a character in the 1976 novel Roots. He was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America. He was a member of the highly respected Kinte clan of the Mandinka people of the Gambia [emoji1108]
A warrior who was educated, clever, skilled, strong, resilient and proud, he was a young man of immense courage that empower him when he was captured by slavers. Kunta never accepted the name and religion given to him by his slave master and he never gave up on his dream of returning to his homeland and he challenged other enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
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157 years ago today in 1865, the highest ranking Native American during the American Civil War, Confederate Brigadier General and leader of the Cherokee Nation, Stand Watie, surrenders the last significant rebel army at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory.
Watie was born in Georgia in 1806. He would be baptized into Christianity and learn to speak English and his family started a successful plantation. During the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Watie supported his people moving further out west to maintain their autonomy from the U.S. government. His position on this would put him and his family into conflict with other prominent Cherokee and led to the murder of his relatives. Watie managed to escape assassination and would become a prominent figure in tribal politics as the surviving member of his family. He would be a lifelong enemy of principal Cherokee Chief John Ross who would flee to Kansas during the war, making Watie the de-facto chief.
When the Southern states left the Union for independence in 1861, Watie signed an alliance with the Confederacy, viewing the federal government as the Cherokees’ principal enemy. He raised the first Cherokee regiment of the Confederate Army, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles, and helped secure the Indian Territory for the rebels early in the conflict. Watie’s regiment first earned prominence during the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in 1862 when they captured a Federal artillery battery. Watie’s superior General Albert Pike wrote this in his report after the battle:
“My whole command consisted of about 1,000 men, all Indians except one squadron. The enemy opened fire into the woods where we were, the fence in front of us was thrown down, and the Indians charged full in front through the woods and into the open grounds with loud yells, took the battery, fired upon and pursued the enemy retreating through the fenced field on our right, and held the battery, which I afterward had drawn by the Cherokee into the woods.”
For the remainder of the war, Watie’s men would cause trouble in the Oklahoma Indian territory, capturing steam boats and millions of dollars’ worth of Federal supplies. As the tide began to change against the Confederacy, most of the Cherokee abandoned the Southern cause. Watie remained loyal though and was promoted to brigadier general. He would finally surrender 75 days after Robert E Lee and would retire to rebuild his home where he would die in 1871. The Cherokee Nation would be punished for their rebellion against the Federal government and would be forced to undergo reconstruction. The U.S. government would also allow white settlers to start settling in the Oklahoma territory.
The last official Confederate surrender would occur 5 months later in November, when the rebel warship CSS Shenandoah turned itself in at Liverpool, England.
[Online References]
(The Civil War's final surrender )
(Stand Watie's War: The Last Confederate General )
(The Last Confederate General to Surrender Was Native American )
(Stand Watie )
Authored by R.E. Foy
Watie was born in Georgia in 1806. He would be baptized into Christianity and learn to speak English and his family started a successful plantation. During the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Watie supported his people moving further out west to maintain their autonomy from the U.S. government. His position on this would put him and his family into conflict with other prominent Cherokee and led to the murder of his relatives. Watie managed to escape assassination and would become a prominent figure in tribal politics as the surviving member of his family. He would be a lifelong enemy of principal Cherokee Chief John Ross who would flee to Kansas during the war, making Watie the de-facto chief.
When the Southern states left the Union for independence in 1861, Watie signed an alliance with the Confederacy, viewing the federal government as the Cherokees’ principal enemy. He raised the first Cherokee regiment of the Confederate Army, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles, and helped secure the Indian Territory for the rebels early in the conflict. Watie’s regiment first earned prominence during the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in 1862 when they captured a Federal artillery battery. Watie’s superior General Albert Pike wrote this in his report after the battle:
“My whole command consisted of about 1,000 men, all Indians except one squadron. The enemy opened fire into the woods where we were, the fence in front of us was thrown down, and the Indians charged full in front through the woods and into the open grounds with loud yells, took the battery, fired upon and pursued the enemy retreating through the fenced field on our right, and held the battery, which I afterward had drawn by the Cherokee into the woods.”
For the remainder of the war, Watie’s men would cause trouble in the Oklahoma Indian territory, capturing steam boats and millions of dollars’ worth of Federal supplies. As the tide began to change against the Confederacy, most of the Cherokee abandoned the Southern cause. Watie remained loyal though and was promoted to brigadier general. He would finally surrender 75 days after Robert E Lee and would retire to rebuild his home where he would die in 1871. The Cherokee Nation would be punished for their rebellion against the Federal government and would be forced to undergo reconstruction. The U.S. government would also allow white settlers to start settling in the Oklahoma territory.
The last official Confederate surrender would occur 5 months later in November, when the rebel warship CSS Shenandoah turned itself in at Liverpool, England.
[Online References]
(The Civil War's final surrender )
(Stand Watie's War: The Last Confederate General )
(The Last Confederate General to Surrender Was Native American )
(Stand Watie )
Authored by R.E. Foy
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Lucy Higgs Nichols (April 10, 1838 – January 25, 1915) was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby. She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse throughout the war.
After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.
She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service. The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.
This photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with military honors in 1915.
LEGACY
[emoji830]In 2011, a marker in her honor was erected by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Friends of Division Street School. As listed on Indiana Historical Bureau markers, Lucy Higgs Nichols' marker is located at 38°17.283′N 85°48.763′W, on E. Market St., in New Albany, Indiana. A summary of her life and accomplishments appears on the front and back of the marker.
[emoji830]The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Indiana, houses an exhibit, Remembered: the Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols, Men & Women of the Underground Railroad.
[emoji830]The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, reprises the life of Lucy Higgs Nichols each year, through programs and a local theatrical interpretation.
[emoji830]An historical novel based on the life of Lucy Higgs Nichols, Honorable (Purpose in Repose) and a companion book for younger readers, by Indiana author Kathryn Grant, were published in 2013.
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After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.
She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service. The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.
This photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with military honors in 1915.
LEGACY
[emoji830]In 2011, a marker in her honor was erected by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Friends of Division Street School. As listed on Indiana Historical Bureau markers, Lucy Higgs Nichols' marker is located at 38°17.283′N 85°48.763′W, on E. Market St., in New Albany, Indiana. A summary of her life and accomplishments appears on the front and back of the marker.
[emoji830]The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Indiana, houses an exhibit, Remembered: the Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols, Men & Women of the Underground Railroad.
[emoji830]The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, reprises the life of Lucy Higgs Nichols each year, through programs and a local theatrical interpretation.
[emoji830]An historical novel based on the life of Lucy Higgs Nichols, Honorable (Purpose in Repose) and a companion book for younger readers, by Indiana author Kathryn Grant, were published in 2013.
[emoji3578] Black History Year Round Directory