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Wow, she's from Weimer. That's where I get my sausage and smoked bacon.
Etta Moten, a multifaceted pioneer in the world of entertainment, was born in Weimar, Texas in 1901. She was raised as the only child of her parents, Freeman Moten, a Methodist minister, and his wife Ida Mae Norman. In 1915, Rev. Moten moved to Kansas City where Etta Moten began singing in church choirs.
Moten married one of her school teachers at the age of 17 and had three children. She divorced her husband in 1924 and asked her parents to care for her children while she went on to attend the University of Kansas to study voice and drama. While at the University of Kansas, Moten briefly joined the Eva Jessy Choir in New York before her ambitions lead her to Hollywood where she immediately embarked upon a film career that enabled her to parlay her vocal and dramatic skills in a dignified manner.
Moten made her film debut as a widow (who sang the song My Forgotten Man) in the 1933 movie The Gold Diggers. The same year, she appeared in her sop re and final film en led Flying Down to Rio in which her moving vocal performance of The Carioca received positive reviews. Although she did not receive billing for subsequent film roles, Moten was one of the first singers to be employed as a dub for the voices of several other leading actresses, including Barbara Stanwyck and Ginger Rogers.
In 1933, Moten performed at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, she married entrepreneur and founder of the Associated Negro Press Claude Albert Barnett and subsequently switched to Broadway, where she gained the leading role of Bess in the 1942 revival of Porgy and Bess. She also appeared in productions of Sugar Hill and Lysistrata opposite acclaimed actor Leigh Whipper.
In 2003, Moten was honored at Chicago International Film Festival�s tribute to African American women in film. In addition, she received a Living Legend Award from the National Black Arts Festival and was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. She died of pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2004 in Chicago at the age of 103.
I understand racist trolling is popular here. I just ask that you keep it out of this thread.
fair enoughI understand racist trolling is popular here. I just ask that you keep it out of this thread.
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thank you my fair skinned brotha
for shizzle my nizzle
As a contribution, I want to recongize Living Color.
you're a tool
cool thread tbh
In living color was a great great show. Jim Carrey, JLo, Wayans family...a lot of legends in the entertainment industry on that show.
also this bad ass nizza
and Jimi...
appreciate it
, who do you leave out...
In living color was a great great show. Jim Carrey, JLo, Wayans family...a lot of legends in the entertainment industry on that show.
Yeah, I got it the first time.
my bad, didn't see it got posted already
Got mad respect for you right now Trill. Keep it up.
To me one of the most underrated scientist of our time. The man did not event peanut butter that's a myth. This is just a very brief history.
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/GWC.htmGeorge Washington Carver
It is rare to find a man of the caliber of George Washington Carver. A man who would decline an invitation to work for a salary of more than $100,000 a year (almost a million today) to continue his research on behalf of his countrymen.
Agricultural Chemistry
As an agricultural chemist, Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, tal powder and wood stain. However, Carver only applied for three patents.
- #1,522,176, 1/6/1925, Cosmetics & Plant Products
- #1,541,478, 6/9/1925, Paints & Stains
- #1,632,365, 6/14/1927, Paints & Stains
Early Life
George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing times near the end of the Civil War. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The iden y of Carver's father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. Moses and Susan Carver reared George and his brother as their own children. It was on the Moses' farm where George first fell in love with nature, where he earned the nickname 'The Plant Doctor' and collected in earnest all manner of rocks and plants.
Education
He began his formal education at the age of twelve, which required him to leave the home of his adopted parents. Schools segregated by race at that time with no school available for black students near Carver's home. He moved to Newton County in southwest Missouri, where he worked as a farm hand and studied in a one-room schoolhouse. He went on to attend Minneapolis High School in Kansas. College entrance was a struggle, again because of racial barriers. At the age of thirty, Carver gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he was the first black student. Carver had to study piano and art and the college did not offer science classes. Intent on a science career, he later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in 1891, where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and a Master of Science degree in bacterial botany and agriculture in 1897. Carver became a member of the faculty of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanics (the first black faculty member for Iowa College), teaching classes about soil conservation and chemurgy.
Tuskegee
In 1897, Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Ins ute for Negroes, convinced Carver to come south and serve as the school's Director of Agriculture. Carver remained on the faculty until his death in 1943. Read the pamphlet - Help For Hard Times - written by Carver and forwarded by Booker T. Washington as an example of the educational material provided to farmers by Carver.
At Tuskegee Carver developed his crop rotation method, which revolutionized southern agriculture. He educated the farmers to alternate the soil-depleting cotton crops with soil-enriching crops such as; peanuts, peas, soybeans, sweet potato, and pecans.
Helping the South
America's economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture during this era making Carver's achievements very significant. Decades of growing only cotton and tobacco had depleted the soils of the southern area of the United States of America. The economy of the farming south had been devastated by years of civil war and the fact that the cotton and tobacco plantations could no longer (ab)use slave labor. Carver convinced the southern farmers to follow his suggestions and helped the region to recover. Carver also worked at developing industrial applications from agricultural crops. During World War I, he found a way to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from Europe. He produced dyes of 500 different shades of dye and he was responsible for the invention in 1927 of a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans. For that he received three separate patents.
God Gave Them To Me
Carver did not patent or profit from most of his products. He freely gave his discoveries to mankind. Most important was the fact that he changed the South from being a one-crop land of cotton, to being multi-crop farmlands, with farmers having hundreds of profitable uses for their new crops. "God gave them to me" he would say about his ideas, "How can I sell them to someone else?" In 1940, Carver donated his life savings to the establishment of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, for continuing research in agriculture.
Honors and Awards
George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. In 1923, he received the Spingarn Medal given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1939, he received the Roosevelt medal for restoring southern agriculture. On July 14, 1943, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt honored Carver with a national monument dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri preserved as a park, this park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States. "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." - Epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver.
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Dedication, persistence, consistency.
Damn, I spell worse than Buckwheat. Fixed.
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Here is some rather unknown info about the man that likely inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin
Josiah Henson
While some have expressed concern over Josiah Henson being the model for Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the life of Henson is nevertheless inspiring. Born enslaved in Maryland, Henson saw members of his family sold. Later, he served with his mother and became both a trustworthy administrator and a preacher.
His role in escorting a group of enslaved persons to the farm of his owner's brother made some question him. While in transit, they could easily have escaped and made themselves free, but Henson believed his owner's offer of potential manumission (ownership of himself). So, he would not allow the escape and was sorely disappointed when he realized that his owner had no intention of giving him his freedom.
Henson was forced to run away with his wife and family, settling near Dresden, Ontario. With his leadership skills, he was able to command the support of abolitionists who helped him create the Dawn Settlement. It was Henson's belief that Blacks needed to learn skills within their own community. Later, his biography The Life of Josiah Henson Formerly a Slave Now an Inhabitant of Canada was written and sold to raise funds for the continuation of the Dawn Settlement. Because the connection of Henson with the Uncle Tom figure helped to keep him in the spotlight, he allowed it to continue.
Josiah Henson and his wife Nancy
This photograph of Josiah Henson and his wife Nancy appears on the Virtual Museum of Canada website.
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
See page 21 for an account of Josiah Henson's escape from enslavement in the US and his founding of a settlement called Dawn in southwestern Ontario. Also examines controversies associated with the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. From Google Books.
Josiah Henson - Birth of a Leader
An illustrated feature about Josiah Henson, a farmer and community leader who formerly had been enslaved. From the Parks Canada website.
An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson
Read an online digitized copy of the book An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson. From Google Books.
Josiah Henson
A biography of Josiah Henson, fugitive slave, Methodist preacher, author, and founder of the settlement at Dawn (near Dresden), Canada West. From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Dawn Settlement Tour
An online tour guide for the Dawn Settlement in Dresden, Ontario. Features information about Uncle Tom’s Cabin, First Baptist Church, and other historic structures. From the dresden.ca website.
Dresden
A profile of Dresden, Ontario, the location of the British American Ins ute, established in 1841 by Reverend Josiah Henson. From The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Josiah Henson
A profile of Josiah Henson, founder of the historic Dawn Township and British-American Ins ute in Ontario. From The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Thanks Resistanze and Jay for your contributions to the thread.
Sit yo ass down, stand back up and sit ya ass right back down.
This will set black people back
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...015506961.html
lol Out of all the great deeds and contributions posted in this thread, a picky college bound student is enough to undo all those great deeds and sets black people back. smh.
chick fil a is pretty pwnt
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