“GOD and Nature first made us what we are, and out of our creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and GOD be our limit and ETERNITY our measurement.” [Marcus Garvey]
Today marks the one-hundred-twenty-third birthday of one of our most remarkable leaders – Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887 in Jamaica. He was one of eleven children. Unfortunately, nine of his siblings died during childhood, leaving him and his older sister, Indiana surviving into adulthood.
Malcolm X
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been described as one of the greatest, and most influential, African Americans in history.
Malcolm X
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Sojourner Truth
Coretta Scott King
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul
Rosa Parks
Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865. Blacks from the Caribbean whose ancestors immigrated, or who immigrated to the U.S., also traditionally have been considered African American, as they share a common history of predominantly West African or Central African roots, the Middle Passage and slavery.
ReplyDeleteIt is these peoples, who in the past were referred to and self-identified collectively as the American Negro, who now generally consider themselves African Americans. It is these peoples whose history is celebrated and highlighted annually in the United States during February, designated as Black History Month, and it is their history that is the focus of this article. Others who sometimes are referred to as African Americans, and who may self-identify as such in US government censuses, include relatively recent Black immigrants from Africa, South America and elsewhere who self-identify as being of African descent.
ReplyDeleteThese such persons were none other than, to name a few: Marcus M.Garvey, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. There were also some black woman of strength such as; Sojourner Truth, Coretta Scott King and none other than Rosa Parks.
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