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Ora Mae Washington (aged 73) - (January 23, 1898 – December 21, 1971) was an American athlete from the Germantown section of Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known as the "Queen of Tennis".
Franklin Delano "Frank" Raines (born January 14, 1949) is an American business executive, former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, he served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton... His role leading Fannie Mae has come under scrutiny... Another great black man...
"Someplace along the line you have to come to an understanding with yourself, and I had reached mine a long time before, when I was still in the hospital. Either you fight or you give up.” ~ Ernie Davis ~ A three-time All-American halfback and 1961 Heisman Trophy winner, Ernie Davis led Syracuse University to the national championship as a sophomore and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. He was the first African-American man to win the Heisman Trophy and to be picked first overall in the NFL draft, but he never played a pro game and died at 23 after contracting leukemia...
Her name was Sarah Rector. She was a young black girl born in Indian Territory on March 3, 1902. Her parents were Joseph and Rose Rector, all of Taft, Indian Territory. Her story is similar to that of Danny Tucker another black child born in Indian Territory. He, like Sarah had a humble beginning, and he, like Sarah would make headlines for sudden wealth acquired by oil rich land...
Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was a prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and '60s. Due largely to his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. Articulate, passionate and a naturally gifted and inspirational orator, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary," including violence. The fiery civil rights leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, which happened, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech...
"Mounted on my favorite horse, my ... lariat near my hand, and my trusty guns in my belt ... I felt I could defy the world." ~ Nat Love in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, 1907 ~ Born in June, 1854 as a slave on Robert Love’s plantation in Davidson County Tennessee, Nat (pronounced Nate) Love would grow up to be one of the most famous cowboys in the Old West...
From the earliest days of the peculiar institution, resistance was a constant feature of American slavery... It took many forms, from individual acts of sabotage, poor work, feigning illness, or committing crimes like arson and poisoning to escaping the system altogether by running away to the North... There were also “marroons” groups of fugitive slaves who formed independent communities in inaccessible areas like Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp and the Florida Everglades...
Warrior of warriors... Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was one of the early leaders in the West Side Crips, an American street gang which has its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969.... Once incarcerated, he authored several books, including anti-gang and anti-violence literature and children's books... On December 13, 2005, Williams was executed by lethal injection after clemency and a four-week stay of execution were both rejected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, amid debate over the death penalty... Williams was the second inmate in California to be executed in 2005....