BS: Valentine's Day Black History

Subject: Valentine's Day Black History
From: GUEST,wysiwyg minus cookie
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 07:53 PM

Well, live and learn! I didn't know any of the following, til my friend Mary passed this along.

~Susan


BLACK HISTORY MONTH FACTS OF THE DAY - FEBRUARY 14

FEBRUARY 14, 1946 - Tap dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer Gregory Hines is born. Hines began dancing as a child and went on to launch a successful Broadway, television and film career. His notable movies include The Cotton Club and White Nights. Hines died of cancer in Los Angeles August 9, 2003 at the age of 57.

FEBRUARY 14, 1936 - The National Negro Congress is organized at a Chicago meeting attended by 817 delegates representing more than 500 organizations. Asa Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was elected president of the new organization.

FEBRUARY 14, 1867 - Morehouse College, the only all male historically black institution of higher learning in the United States, is organized in Augusta, Georgia. The institution was later moved to Atlanta.
A new registration law in Tennessee abolishes racial distinctions in voting.

FEBRUARY 14, 1817 - Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author and orator is born. Born into slavery as Frederick Baile, Douglass purchased his freedom in 1845 and went on to become the greatest abolitionist of his time.

FEBRUARY 14, 1760 - African American bishop Richard Allen is born into slavery in Philadelphia. Allen bought his freedom at age 17 and went on to found the first national black church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, in 1816.

Subject: RE: BS: Valentine's Day Black History
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 11:52 PM

Interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Valentine's Day Black History
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 12:11 AM

Came across this today, new to me

Wear the Mask

BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.


Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

       We wear the mask.


We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

       We wear the mask!

Subject: Add: poem, 'Wear the Mask,' PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
From: GUEST,wysiwyg minus cookie
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 08:57 AM

Thanks, Guest!

Subject: RE: BS: Valentine's Day Black History
From: GUEST,Obnig Hrobdog
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 07:39 PM

Oops. Lupercalia. Research, discuss, and learn.

Subject: RE: BS: Valentine's Day Black History
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 12:33 AM

Your Welcome! wysiwyg
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"The hart he loves the high wood, the hare she loves the hill;
The Knight he loves his bright sword, the Lady loves her will."

Interesting stuff Obnig Hrobdog