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Geo. Washington Carver Ecard
“If you want to lift
yourself up,
lift up someone else.”
Geo. W. Carver



Documenting the
American South



CALENDARS

African American Art Calendars
African American
Calendars


366 Days of Black History Calendars
366 Days of Black History Calendars

Women of the African Ark Calendars
Women of the
African Ark
Calendars




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process



Famous Men in Black History Educational Posters & Prints
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers to celebrate Black History Month in February.


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Selection of notable and famous men in Black and African American history posters include composite posters ‘Civil Rights Leaders’, ‘Black History’, musicians and entertainers, heros and heroines, artists, innovators, athletes and African inspired art.



The Man I AM Poster
The Man I AM
Poster

The Man I AM

The path I walk
was made for me
with grains of faith
for sand ...
Because of those
who paved the way -
I am free to walk this land.

George Washington Carver
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
Malcolm X

Harlem Renaissance Culture Guide Map Poster
Harlem Renaissance
Culture Guide
Map Poster


Harlem Renaissance Culture Guide Poster Map
One Hundred Years of History, Art, and Culture

Poster map guide shows the homes, nightclubs, and churches linked with Harlem’s writers, artists, musicians, thinkers, and political leaders of the 1920s.

The back of the poster map provides addresses and an easy walking guide.

Alvin Ailey
Charles Alston
Marian Anderson
The Apollo Theater
James Baldwin
Romare Bearden
The Cotton Club
W.E.B. DuBois
Katherine Dunham
Duke Ellington
Ralph Ellison
Marcus Garvey
Althea Gibson
Dizzy Gillespie
W.C. Handy
Billie Holiday
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Jacob Lawrence
Joe Louis
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Minton's Playhouse
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Paul Robeson
A. Philip Randolph
Augusta Savage
The Savoy
The Schomburg Center
James Van Der Zee
Madam C. J. Walker
Mary Lou Williams

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Dred and Harriet Scott, Giclee Print
Dred & Harriet Scott,
Giclee Print

Dred Scott
b. 1799; Virginia
d. 9-17-1858; St. Louis, MO

Dred Scott sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford of 1857. The case said that a slave owner would not lose their property purchased in a state where slavery was “legal” if they brought their slaves into a state where slavery was not permitted.

Dred Scott died of tuberculosis three months after being emanicpated by his original owner; his wife Harriet survived him by 18 years.

Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)


Newspaper Founder Robert S. Abbott Checking Printing Press at the African American Newspaper, Photographic Print
Newspaper Founder Robert S. Abbott Checking Printing Press at the African American Newspaper, Photographic Print

Robert Sengstacke Abbott
b. 11-24-1870; St. Simons Island, Georgia
d. 2-29-1940; Chicago, IL (Bright's Disease)

Lawyer Robert Sengstacke Abbott was the founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender newspaper, and an early African-American Baha'i.

The Defender came to be known as “America's Black Newspaper” and made Abbott one of the first self-made millionaires of African-American descent. He advocated for people to leave the South and come North for jobs and a better life.

Abbott hired Willard Motley to write a children's column called “Bud Says”, which is the namesake of Chicago's Bud Billikin Parade and Picnic.

Abbott's nine goals were:
1. American race prejudice must be destroyed.
2. The opening up of all trade-unions to blacks as well as whites.
3. Representation in the President's Cabinet.
4. Engineers, firemen, and conductors on all American railroads, and all jobs in government.
5. Representation in all departments of the police forces over the entire United States.
6. Government schools open to all American citizens in preference to foreigners.
7. Motormen and conductors on surface, elevated and motor bus lines throughout America.
8. Federal legislation to abolish lynching.
9. Full enfranchisement of all American citizens.

Jean-Baptist Belley, Giclee Print
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Giclee Print

Jean-Baptiste Belley
b. c. 1746; Gorée, Senegal
d. c. 1805; France

Jean-Baptiste Belley was sold into slavery as a toddler, became educated and was able to purchase his freedom as an adult in Saint-Domingue. In 1793, following the French Revolution, he spoke out against slavery as the only Black member of a three person coalition sent to France to represent the colony in the National Convention.

In 1802 Napolean orderd him arrested and returned to France for imprisonment.


Joseph Cinque, Leader of Amistad Slave Revolt, Giclee Print
Joseph Cinque, Leader of Amistad Slave Revolt,
Giclee Print

Joseph Cinqué
née Sengbe Pieh
b. c. 1814; West Africa
d. c. 1879; Sierra Leone

Joseph Cinqué, a rice farmer, is best remembered as the leader of a group of hostages on the schooner Amistad, who revolted and gained control of the ship. Eventually the Amistad was detained by the US Navy and a series of court cases ending with a 1840 Supreme Court decision that the Africans mutinied to regain their freedom after being kidnapped and sold illegally. Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams, together with Roger Sherman Baldwin, were critical to the Africans' defense.

Amistad, 1997, DVD


Child and Widow of Murdered Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers at his Funeral, June 28, 1963, Photographic Print
Wife Myrlie Evers and son Darryl Kenyatta of Slain Murdered Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers at Funeral,
June 28, 1963,
Photographic Print

Medgar Evers
b. 7-2-1925; Decatur, MS
d. 6-12-1963; Jackson, MS

Medgar Evers, an African American civil rights activist was shot and killed June 12, 1963.

African American Picketing Outside Main Gates on Night of Opening of World's Fair, Photographic Print
African American Picketing Outside
Main Gates on Night of Opening of World's Fair, Photographic Print










In 1994 Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the murder; two previous trials with all white jurys ended in mistrials.


Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II
Shades of Freedom:
Racial Politics and Presumptions
of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
b. 2-25-1928; Ewing, NJ
d. 12-14-1998; Boston

A. Leon Higgenbotham was a civil rights advocate, author, and the seventh African American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first African American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.


Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Groundwork:
Charles Hamilton Houston
and the Struggle
for Civil Rights

Charles Hamilton Houston
b. 9-3-1895; Washington, DC
d. 4-22-1950

Lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director, Charles Hamilton Houston, played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and trained future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

FYI - Elena Kegan, the former dean of the Harvard Law School and now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, held the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law Chair.


US 1993 Postal Stamps, Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian
US 1993 Postal Stamps

Percy Lavon Julian
b. 4-11-1899; Montgomery, AL
d. 4-19-1975; Illinois

Research chemist Percy Lavon Julian was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants and during his lifetime he received more than 130 chemical patents.

He was one of the first African-Americans to earn a doctorate in chemistry (after St. Elmo Brady and Edward M. A. Chandler) and he also taught chemistry at the university level.


Scene in the Slave Pen at Washington, Illustration from 'twelve Years a Slave' by Solomon Northup, Giclee Print
Scene in the Slave Pen at Washington, Illustration from 'twelve Years a Slave' by Solomon Northup, Giclee Print

Solomon Northup
b. July-1808; Rhode Island
d. after 1857

Solomon Northup was the son of free blacks and landowners in New York State, and well educated for the time and place. He is remembered today because he was one of the few free black men to regain freedom after being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

In 1841 Northup was drugged, abducted and sold in Louisiana where he spent over a decade with various owners before being liberated in 1853. His recovery came about because of an itinerant Canadian carpenter, working in Louisana, was able to contact Northup's family and an 1840 NY law that required the release and return of African-American residents who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery.

After returning to his family Northup published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, and became active speaker in the abolition movement.


Garrett Augustus Morgan; Businessman, Inventor, Good Citizen
Garrett Augustus Morgan; Businessman, Inventor,
Good Citizen

Garrett Morgan
b. 3-4-1877; Paris, Kentucky
d. 8-27-1963; Cleveland, OH

Garrett Morgan, a practical man with humble beginnings, devoted his life to creating things that made the lives of other people safer and more convenient.

His first significant invention, the Morgan Safety Hood, or “Breathing Device” as he called it, was originally worn mainly by firefighters, but made national news as the “gas mask” used to rescue several men trapped during an explosion in a tunnel beneath Lake Erie.

Morgan's second major invention came about after seeing a collision at an intersection. His stop-and-go signal with a stop for all directions - a precursor to our red, yellow, green light traffic signals, halted traffic in all directions.


Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, Photograph
P. B. S. Pinchback, Photograph

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
b. 5-10-1837; Macon, GA
d. 12-21-1921; Washington, DC

Republican P.B.S. Pinchback was the first person of African-American descent to become governor of a U.S. state. He served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and served on the Louisiana State Board of Education. Pinchback also recruited black soldiers for the Union in New Orleans during the Civil War.

Pinchback's parents were former slave Eliza Stewart of African, Cherokee, Welsh and German ancestry, and William Pinchback, Eliza's former master. Their five children were brought up in a relatively affluent home on a large plantation in Mississippi. When the father died in 1848 Eliza fled north with her children to prevent the Pinchback relatives from claiming them as slaves.

The author Jean Toomer was Pinchback's grandson.


Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Before Trip to Spain, Photographic Print
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,
Photographic Print


Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
b. 11-29-1908; New Haven, CT
d. 4-4-1972; Miami, FL

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. represented Harlem, New York, in the US House of Representatives 1945-1971. This photographic print from LIFE magazine archives first appeared 10-30-1964.


Joel Elias Spingarn, Historic Print
Joel Elias Spingarn,
Historic Print

Joel Elias Spingarn
b. 5-17-1875; New York City, NY
d. 7-26-1939

Educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist Joel Elias Spingarn was one of the first Jewish leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving as chairman of its board from 1913 to 1919, its treasurer from 1919-30, its second president from 1930 until his death in 1939.

Spingarn is the namesake of the Spingarn Medal, established in 1914, and awarded annually by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an African American. His will stipulated a bequest to fund the Spingarn Medal in perpetuity.

Arthur Spingarn, brother of Joel, was also active in NAACP.


Nat Turner Captured, Giclee Print
Nat Turner Captured,
Giclee Print

Nat Turner
b. 10-2-1800; Southhampton Co., VA
d. 11-11-1831; Southampton Co.

Nat Turner led the largest slave rebellion in the American South prior to the Civil War. He was tried, convicted and executed.

Turner, who learned to read and write, was deeply religious. He was known as “The Prophet” among fellow slaves and often conducted Baptist services, influencing both black and white. His rebellion was based on a vision - “heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.”

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Discussion Point: Compare the violence of the Crusades of the Middle Ages and the Jihads of today. See The Confessions of Nat Turner: Memoir of a Martyr of Testament of a Terrorist? in Theorizing Scriptures, a collection of essays.


Roy Wilkins, print
Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins
b. 8-30-1901; St. Louis, MO
d. 9-8-1981; NYC

Roy Wilkins, a civil rights activist from the 1930s to the 1970s is most remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).


Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, Bill Campbell, Ebony Magazine, July 1996, Photographic Print
Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, Bill Campbell, Ebony Magazine, July 1996, Photographic Print

Andrew Young
b. 3-12-1932; New Orleans, LA

Politician, diplomat, activist and pastor Andrew Young served as Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from Georgia's 5th district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He also served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Andrew Young at Amazon


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