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This Week’s Black History is provided by;
The 1976 Editions of THE TRIBUNAL AID
will be dedicated to America's bicentennial
Celebration, with emphasis on contributions
our Race has made in the making of America,
from birth to the present.
In 1976 there should not be a need to lift
these contributions from isolated sources. Our
past should be interwoven into the fabric of
our civilization, because we are, except for the
Indian, America's oldest ethnic minority.
We have helped make America what it was,
and what it Is, since the founding of Virginia.
We have been a factor in many major issues in
our history. There have been many misdeeds
against us, yet we Kave been able to live
through them and fight back. This is living
proof of our history.
Our role in the making of America is neither
well known or correctly known. Many positive
contributions have escaped historians and
have not found their way Into the pages of
Fay Ashe, Black History Editor
many history books.
We will strive to give readers, Black and
white, many little-known facts about our past
and it is hoped that a proper perspective of our
history will be of value to persons who may
believe that as Black People we have an
unworthy past; and hence, no strong claims to
all rights of other Americans.
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iHisforical LanamarKs-
MADAM C.J. WALKER
was born in Louisiana in
1875, was married at the
I Of Black America j
with a daughter to support.
She was taking in washing
in Denver, Colorado, when
she got the inspiration to
manufacture a line of
cosmetics and develop a
hairstraightening process
for Afro-American women.
^ ^ In twelve years she was a
Central Citv: Aunt Clara aboliilJnist, Senator ,,
, millionaire and philanthro-
Of Black America J
No more BabBtantial testimony to the role of the Black
In the growth and development of America can be
foond than the nnmeroos historical landmarks in
various regions of the country which are associated with
Black Americana. Many of thesC"Ilke the Alamo and
Bunker Hill—are not conventionally known as sites
involving chapters of Negro history.
Brown Chair (Central City Chafies Sumner, Ford
Opera House)
pist.
urged President Andrew
Johnson to veto the bill for
This chair is a tribute to slatchood.
“Aunt Clara” Brown, Ultimately, Johnson a-
bclieved to have been the dopted this course of action colleges in addition to
first Negro resident of and, as an ironic conse- sending six youths to
Clara quence, Colorado was juskeegee Institute each
Colorado. “Aunt
Madam Walker spent
$10,000 every year to
educate Black youths
died in 1877 while in her unable to vote on the year. Among other grants,
80 s. question of Johnson s g^ye $5,000 to the
Born a slave in Virginia,
“Aunt Clara” moved
impeachment. Had the National Conference on
to territory become a state Lynching to assist their
Missouri where her hus- then, it is believed likely program to combat that blot
band and children were that the two provisional nation
sold before she herself senators would have voted
gained freedom through for impeachment, inas- Madam Walker died May
her master’s last will and much as they were known 25 1919 gj j,er fabulous
" ■ ' to be vehemently anti
testament. From Missouri
she headed for Kansas and Johnson,
then for the gold fields of
Colorado, where she open
ed the territory's
country estate at Irvington-
on-the Husdon. Heiress to
In Colorado, Ford was the fortune was a daughter,
blamed for attemptmg to Mrs. A’Leila Walker Robin-
first block statehood and for
laundry. From her earnings keeping Johnson in office.
she soon began putting Once the 15th Amendment From THE NEW YORK
Continued on Page 6 TIMES, May 26, 1919.
aside money for the
purchase of her family.
Even though the Eman
cipation intervened and her
immediate family was set
free, she nonetheless
returned to Missouri and
brought back with her to
Central City a group of 38
relatives and kin. She
remained in the mining
community for the rest of
her life, nursing the sick
and performing other
charitable works.
She was buried with
honors by the Colorado
Pioneers Association, of
which she was a member.
Her chair was dedicated in
1932.
Denver: Inter-Ocean Hotel,
16th and Market Streets
The Inter-Ocean Hotel,
once a showplace for
millionaires and presidents
was built by Barney Ford, a
Negro entrepreneur active
during the gold rush days.
(See first Colorado entry.)
Ford and his cohorts
joined the fight over the
organization of the Colo
rado territory and the
question of statehood.
Originally allowed the vote,
they had seen this privilege
abrogated by the territorial
constitution and, as a
result, sought to delay
statehood for the territory
until Negro voting rights
were reinstated. Enlisting
the aid of the famed
Massachusetts the aid of
the famed Massachusetts
BIBLIOGRAPHY * * *
Drotning, Phillip T. A
Guide to Negro History In
America New York: Dou-
BICENTENNIAL
BLACK HISTORY
“Lost-Strayed-Or Stolen ”
Black history In the Western Hendsphere mout
probably begins with the discovery of the New World
by Christopher Columbus In 1942. Blacks are known to
have partl^ated meaningfully in a number of later
explorations made by Europeans In various parts of die
United States and Spanish America. Facts such as
these at once &whion a new dimension for Black history
wltfaln the mainstream of American history. Inasmnidi
as one of the primary purposes of this feature is to
i«cord some historical achievements of the Black, It
bfBcomes most Important to offer the reader
cfaiODological accounts through which he can
conveniently familiarize himself with the broad sweep
of American Mack history. The years covered here are
1493-1954.
1815 Kent County, Mary
land
appointeu Minister
Liberia in 1881.
1816 Louisiana
State law prohibits slaves
from testifying against president
whites and free Negroes,
except in cases where the
latter are ostensibly involv-
Birth into slavery of
educator/clergyman Henry
Highland Garnet who
escapes to New York in
1824, dividing his time
there between preaching
and abolition. In 1843,
Garnet calls upon slaves to slave uprisings,
rise up against their
masters, but the National
Convention of Free People
of Color at which he
delivers this address rejects
his proposal. Frederick
Douglass is an especially
outspoken opponent. Gar
net later goes into
missionary work, and is
Iviiss RUTH LOWERY
started a midnineteenth-
century silk industry in
Huntsville, Alabama. She
started with a few silk
worms given her by her
father, Samuel Lowery, a
lawyer-scientist who was
admitted to the U.S.
Supreme Court practice in
1880. At a school in
Huntsville, which was
started by her father, MISS
LOWERY obtained silk
from cocoons spun by her
worms. Pupils of the school
helped to spin the silk and
make articles of it. The silk
grown in Alabama by these
Blacks won prizes over
Asiatic and European
nations at international
fairs.
Huntsville gave MISS
LOWERY a mulberry tree
in the center of the city to
provide nourishment for
the silkworms. The early
death of MISS LOWERY
ended the industry that had
a successful start.
ONESIMUS, a slave
owned by Cotton Mather,
earned his freedom by
suggesting a preventive
against smallpox during an
epidemic in 1721. It was a
method of inoculation
brought from Africa by the
slave. Although there were
many skeptics, Mather
learned the method from
ONESIMUS and persuaded
people to try it, thus
stopping the epidemic from
spreading further. This
inoculation against small
pox, introduced in Ameri
can by an African slave,
preceded Jenner’s article
on the subject by sixty-
eight years.
Wm. Clement
Appointed 16
Cancer Com
WiUiam A, Clement of
Durham has been named to the
Citizens Advisory Committee
of the Duke University
Comprehensive Cancer
Center. His appointment was
announced by Dr. William W.
Shingleton, director of the
center.
Clement is senior vice
of the North
A GLANCE
BACKWARDS
PICTORIAL ‘RECORDS’
HARVESTER COMPANY
Centennial Medal
Honoring
JOE ANDERSON
Co-Inventor of the Reaper
OBVERSE
REVERSE
A Negro hncntor: Robert Biair, inventor of anti
aircraft
I was there when the Angel
drove out the Ancestor
I was there when the waters
consumed the mountains
— Bernard Dadie
1816 Philadelphia
Organization of the African
Methodist Episcopal
Church.
1816 Washington, D.C.
America New York; Pitt
man Publishing Corpora
tion 1967
Ploski, Harry A. Phe
bleday and Company, 1968 Kaiser, Ernest The Negro
Katz, William Loren Al„nanac New York: Bel-
Eyewitness; The Negro in luether Company
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Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company, a position to which
he rose after joining the
company as an agent in 1934.
He is a past president of the
National Insurance Association
and a member of the American
Society of Chartered Life
Underwriters. An executive
committee member of the
Durham Committee on the
Affairs of Black People,
Clement also is a past president
Organization of the Durham United Fund
American Colonization So- and a past chairman of the
ciety. which seeks to Durham District of the Boy
transport free Negroes back Scouts of America,
to Africa. (Protest meetings jhe Duke Center is one of
are subsequently held by 17 comprehensive cancer
many such Negroes in centers in the U. S. designated
opposition to the Society’s by the National Caticer
efforts “to exile us from the Institute. It is the only such
land of our nativity.”) between Washington, D.
C., and Birmingham, Ala. ^
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