Africa history made (Marejeo)
Africa history made (Marejeo)
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“Africans enjoy different cultures, distinctive values, special attributes. But we also know that unity can be and has been attained among men of the most disparate origins, that differences of race, of religion, of culture, of tradition, are no insuperable obstacle to the coming together of peoples. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”
Kedamawi Hayl Selasse
(Haile Selassie I)
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#GiveITheTeachingsOfHisMajesty
Kedamawi Hayl Selasse
(Haile Selassie I)
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#GiveITheTeachingsOfHisMajesty
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𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗘 𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 1895
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚
This picture was taken and the article appeared around 1895 or 96. It claimed he was born in 1760 or 61 and was then 136 years old. Notice the pet raccoon and the drinking gourd to his right.
Uncle Jerry was owned by several different people, and took the name Akin from his last owner, John Akin of Spring Garden. After the Civil War, Uncle Jerry lived on with his old master until he died, then he and a woman named Rose went to live with Capt. John Davis. Rose had a daughter, Maria, who cared for Uncle Jerry at the end of his life so that he would not be sent to the poor house against his will.
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#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 [emoji1478]
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚
This picture was taken and the article appeared around 1895 or 96. It claimed he was born in 1760 or 61 and was then 136 years old. Notice the pet raccoon and the drinking gourd to his right.
Uncle Jerry was owned by several different people, and took the name Akin from his last owner, John Akin of Spring Garden. After the Civil War, Uncle Jerry lived on with his old master until he died, then he and a woman named Rose went to live with Capt. John Davis. Rose had a daughter, Maria, who cared for Uncle Jerry at the end of his life so that he would not be sent to the poor house against his will.
#blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2022
#𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 #𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗢𝘂𝗿𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 🤎 [emoji1478]
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[Jan Ernst Matzeliger
(1852–1889)
Matzeliger's machine brought shoes to the masses.
Background: Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, the South American country now called Suriname. He worked in machine shops as a child. In the 1870s, he immigrated to the United States and eventually settled in Lynn, Mass., where he found work at a shoe factory.
Invention: In 1883, Matzeliger successfully invented what many before him had attempted: an automated shoemaking (sic) machine that quickly attached the top of the shoe to the sole. This process is called "lasting". Matzeliger's machine could produce more than 10 times what human hands could create in a day. This invention revolutionized the shoemaking (sic) industry and made shoes affordable to the average person.]
(1852–1889)
Matzeliger's machine brought shoes to the masses.
Background: Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, the South American country now called Suriname. He worked in machine shops as a child. In the 1870s, he immigrated to the United States and eventually settled in Lynn, Mass., where he found work at a shoe factory.
Invention: In 1883, Matzeliger successfully invented what many before him had attempted: an automated shoemaking (sic) machine that quickly attached the top of the shoe to the sole. This process is called "lasting". Matzeliger's machine could produce more than 10 times what human hands could create in a day. This invention revolutionized the shoemaking (sic) industry and made shoes affordable to the average person.]
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In 1942, US Navy Messman Charles Jackson French successfully swam through the night for 6-8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his waist in shark infested waters. The USS Gregory was hit by Japanese fire in the Pacific Ocean. French successfully brought these men to safety on the shores of the Solomon Islands. He was the first African American swimmer to receive the Navy medal of heroism in 1943
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“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
- Rosa Parks
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Sources: Photograph of Rosa Parks taken in 1955 / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93) / Wikimedia Commons / Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992) / Wikiquote
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- Rosa Parks
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Sources: Photograph of Rosa Parks taken in 1955 / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93) / Wikimedia Commons / Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992) / Wikiquote
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"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still, I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got
gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with
your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with
your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've
got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s
shame,
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted
in pain,
I rise
I'm a black ocean,
leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling
I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights
of terror and fear,
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s
wondrously clear,
I rise
Bringing the gifts that
my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope
of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."
[emoji3508] Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still, I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got
gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with
your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with
your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've
got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s
shame,
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted
in pain,
I rise
I'm a black ocean,
leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling
I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights
of terror and fear,
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s
wondrously clear,
I rise
Bringing the gifts that
my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope
of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."
[emoji3508] Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
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This is Aunt Polly Jackson from the 19th century.
She was once enslaved, but managed to escape after she could no longer take the brutal working conditions that was forced upon her since birth and well into her old age. Like many others, Aunt Polly escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad and settled in Ripley, Ohio.
She dedicated the rest of her life to helping others win their freedom by opening up her home and feeding those who either came to Ohio to settle or those who just needed some rest before continuing further up north.
During this time, anti-abolitionists had set up what was called the reverse underground railroad, which was a practice of kidnapping not only the enslaved that had managed to escape, but also those who were already free. The reverse underground railroad operated for 85 years from 1780 to 1865.
Aunt Polly would deliberately dress herself to appear as a weaker older lady in order to fool the anti-abolitionists who typically were not interested in capturing older people. Her weapon of choice was a butcher knife, which she hid under her clothes and a kettle of boiling water. Aunt Polly was able to successfully fight off several slave catchers while working along the Underground Railroad.
Source: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/id/14014/
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She was once enslaved, but managed to escape after she could no longer take the brutal working conditions that was forced upon her since birth and well into her old age. Like many others, Aunt Polly escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad and settled in Ripley, Ohio.
She dedicated the rest of her life to helping others win their freedom by opening up her home and feeding those who either came to Ohio to settle or those who just needed some rest before continuing further up north.
During this time, anti-abolitionists had set up what was called the reverse underground railroad, which was a practice of kidnapping not only the enslaved that had managed to escape, but also those who were already free. The reverse underground railroad operated for 85 years from 1780 to 1865.
Aunt Polly would deliberately dress herself to appear as a weaker older lady in order to fool the anti-abolitionists who typically were not interested in capturing older people. Her weapon of choice was a butcher knife, which she hid under her clothes and a kettle of boiling water. Aunt Polly was able to successfully fight off several slave catchers while working along the Underground Railroad.
Source: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/id/14014/
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DO YOU KNOW THIS CROP? It is called the three leaved yam (discorea dumetorum)
It is one food that a [emoji240] dog can never taste no matter how or what you use to prepare it.
PROVERB ON THIS; If the dog does not eat three leaved yam, at least it can warm itself beside the fire used in cooking it
EXPLANATION: This proverb can be used in explaining many situations, for example, "if a man has no wife, he can at least find some pleasure in alcohol".
THE TRUTH IS BITTER MY DEAR AFRICANS.
It is one food that a [emoji240] dog can never taste no matter how or what you use to prepare it.
PROVERB ON THIS; If the dog does not eat three leaved yam, at least it can warm itself beside the fire used in cooking it
EXPLANATION: This proverb can be used in explaining many situations, for example, "if a man has no wife, he can at least find some pleasure in alcohol".
THE TRUTH IS BITTER MY DEAR AFRICANS.
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[Henry Brown patented a "receptacle for storing and preserving papers on November 2, 1886" This was a kind of strongbox, a fire-safe and accident-safe container made of forged metal, which could be sealed with a lock and key. It was special in that it kept the papers inside it separated, A precursor to the personal safe? It was not the first patent for a strongbox, but it was patented as an improvement....]Source: Black Inventor Aims to Keep Documents Safe
Patent: US352036A - Henry brown - Google Patents
Patent: US352036A - Henry brown - Google Patents
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[Elijah McCoy
Automatic Engine Lubricator
US Patent No. 129,843
Inducted in 2001
Born May 2, 1844 - Died October 10, 1929
Elijah McCoy received his first patent for an automatic lubricating device in 1872. Previously, engines had to be stopped before necessary lubrication could be applied. McCoy's invention allowed engines to be lubricated while they ran, saving precious time and money.
McCoy's parents were slaves who escaped from Kentucky to Canada. McCoy was born in Canada, later moving with his family to Ypsilanti, Michigan. When he was fifteen, his parents sent him to school in Scotland. There, he studied mechanical engineering, a field that had interested him from the time he was young.
Returning home, McCoy was unable to find work as a mechanical engineer, so he went to work for the Michigan Central Railroad as a fireman. His duties included lubricating engine parts. Engines needed frequent lubrication, and each time, the trains had to be stopped and started, an inefficient process. McCoy was convinced there was a better way and invented his automatic lubricator.
McCoy continued to create improvements on his device, and soon, long distance locomotives, transatlantic ships, and factory machines were using his lubricating invention. His reputation spread, and users of heavy equipment were wary of buying cheap substitutes. As a result, they often asked for "the real McCoy," a phrase that still exists in today's vocabulary.] Source: NIHF Inductee Elijah McCoy Invented the Automatic Engine Lubricator
There may be other patents before his and more after, our goal is to highlight the achievement of this man, NOT the engine lubricator. Here's a link to HIS creation/patent: US129843A - Improvement in lubricators for steam-engines - Google Patents
Automatic Engine Lubricator
US Patent No. 129,843
Inducted in 2001
Born May 2, 1844 - Died October 10, 1929
Elijah McCoy received his first patent for an automatic lubricating device in 1872. Previously, engines had to be stopped before necessary lubrication could be applied. McCoy's invention allowed engines to be lubricated while they ran, saving precious time and money.
McCoy's parents were slaves who escaped from Kentucky to Canada. McCoy was born in Canada, later moving with his family to Ypsilanti, Michigan. When he was fifteen, his parents sent him to school in Scotland. There, he studied mechanical engineering, a field that had interested him from the time he was young.
Returning home, McCoy was unable to find work as a mechanical engineer, so he went to work for the Michigan Central Railroad as a fireman. His duties included lubricating engine parts. Engines needed frequent lubrication, and each time, the trains had to be stopped and started, an inefficient process. McCoy was convinced there was a better way and invented his automatic lubricator.
McCoy continued to create improvements on his device, and soon, long distance locomotives, transatlantic ships, and factory machines were using his lubricating invention. His reputation spread, and users of heavy equipment were wary of buying cheap substitutes. As a result, they often asked for "the real McCoy," a phrase that still exists in today's vocabulary.] Source: NIHF Inductee Elijah McCoy Invented the Automatic Engine Lubricator
There may be other patents before his and more after, our goal is to highlight the achievement of this man, NOT the engine lubricator. Here's a link to HIS creation/patent: US129843A - Improvement in lubricators for steam-engines - Google Patents