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Black History 2.0Bigger, bolder and badder

than ever beforeBy Woullard Lett, MS

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Are you Black?

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Are you Black? Name Place of origin

Nationality

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Charles Darwin:

Descent of Man,

1871

Bryan Sykes:

The Seven Daughters of Eve,

2001

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Kemet: The Black Land

Greek: Aegyptus (Aigyptos)

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Kemet: The Black Land

Influences on Western/EuropeanCivilization

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School for GreekPhilosophers

-Thales of Milete

- Pythagoras

- Plato

Scientificaccomplishment

-Astronomy

- Agriculture

- Architecture- Engineering

- Aeronautics

- Mathematics

- Medicine- Metallurgy

- Writingsystems

Imhotep

2650-2600 BC

- Firstengineer

- Firstarchitect

- Firstphysician

- Priest

- Sage

- Poet

- Govt. official

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East to West: ConnectionsEast Africa with West Africa

Influence ofEgypt

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East to West: ConnectionsEast Africa with West Africa

DOGONPeople

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East to West: Connections

Africa in the East with America in the West

OLMEC

They Came Before Columbus

Ivan Van Sertima, 1976

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East to West: Connections

Africa in the East with

America in the West

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Transatlantic struggle for justice

Maroon societies: Spanish - cimarrn: "fugitive, runaway(Jamaica, Suriname)

Palenque:Spanish - village

(Cuba, Puerto Rico)

Quilombos: Angola [Kimbundu]

(Brazil 40% of African slaves in Western Hemisphere)

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Transatlantic struggle for justice

August 1, 1619 Arrival of first Africanindentured servants

Mid-1670s hereditary African Slaveryestablished

(Bacons rebellion)

Mid-1670s 1865 Abolitionist movement

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Transatlantic struggle for justice

Social accommodation vs. Social advocacy

(Booker T. Washington) (W.E.B. Dubois)

Separation vs. integration

(UNIA) (NAACP)

Black Power vs. inclusion(Black nationalism) (Civil Rights)

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Malcolm X on nationalism

Dr. Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

Transatlantic struggle for justice

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Is all African achievement in the past?

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Contemporary African examples

West Africa

Advanced mathematical concepts

Benot Mandelbrot, 1975

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West African Connection

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African social influences

Social justice

Civil Rights movement

Anti-War movement

Womens movementGay rights movement

Environmental movement

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AGE OF OBAMA

Do we still need Black History Month?

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AGE OF OBAMA

Carter G. Woodson founder

Miseducation of the Negro 1933

If you control a mans thinking you donthave to worry about his actions

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