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I went to a Chiropractor in Sacramento that was great.After 3 visits my back pain was gone, so I'd have to say Dr. Vert E. Bray is my favorite back person.
I may be the main man from P.I.N.K. but John Shaft?
He da man!!!!
(especially when he's played by Mr. Samuel L. Jackson, who's likeness Nick Fury's of the Marvel comics the Ultimates is fashioned after.)
I can't i forgot my favorate black musician of all time especially being an 80's Guru and that is Prince. Also really digged Purple Rain as i'm watching it right now.
Robert R. Church, Sr. (http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=C092# - broken link) (1839-1912)
First black millionaire in the South after Civil War
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Author, journalist, and civil rights activist
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In 1884, Wells was asked to leave the ladies' car and sit in the colored train car. She refused because that car was filled with smokers. Train officials physically forced her to leave; she retaliated but was pushed off the train at the next train stop and was met by a crowd of applauding whites. She engaged in legal recourse and sued the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad. Although she won in the local court, the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the decision.
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thanks for letting us know about ida wells. it's amazing how many of these early pioneers are overlooked.
Just watched a history channel show on George Washington Carver. It reminded me of all the studying I did as a kid in school. I was fasinated by him. I remember reading everything I could about his experiments. I got some good grades in both history, science class over many different years in school. All the different things he did with just a peanut,(no he didnt invent peanut butter) and the soybean. Anyway I have afew different black people in history I could list but GWC is my favorite person I admire. who else?
how could anyone forget James Brown, the godfather of soul? i know that his personal life got strange there toward the end of his life, but think of him singing to a shellshocked 1960s nation, "say it loud, i'm black and i'm proud!" and of course, the inimitable aretha franklin.
I hate the internet!
Saint augustine of Hippo second time I've said it!!!!
Sinner and founding intellectual/ theologian of the modern church!!!
Black in a time different from our own?
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