This is a time that we recognize some of our unknown, forgotten, or Famous Black People that may or may have not been recognized throughout History. There are numerous famous figures.
Black History Celebration
***Gratitude***
10 Famous Black History People
1. Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1881-1968)
The first African American elected to Congress as a Democrat served four terms in the U.S. House. He was the son of former slaves, entered Tuskegee Institute in 1897 and worked his way through college as a farm laborer and an assistant for Booker T. Washington.
2. Susan Rice
She is a National Security Adviser and has served as Special Assistant to President William J. Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House. She encourages choosing a carer in public service. She suggests careers in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), Presidential innovation Fellows, Attorney General’s Honors Program, and several more careers.
3. Forgotten Black Jockeys
There were 13 -15 riders in that first Kentucky Derby and they were African-Americans. Jockey Oliver Lewis lead to a one-length victory in the fastest time ever recorded by a three-year-old horse According to history.com. They further added that for centuries Southern plantation owners put slaves to work in their stable as riders, grooms, and trainers. After emancipation, African-Americans continue to rule Southern race circuits while white immigrants from Ireland and England and predominated in the North.
4. Granville T. Woods (1856-1910)
Granville T. Woods was born to free African Americans. He was known as “Black Edison.” He registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph. Granville received little schooling as a young man and he took up a variety of jobs in his early teens. Some of those jobs included a railroad engineer in a railroad machine shop, as an engineer on a British ship, in a steel mill, and as a railroad worker. In 1889 he filed his first patent for an improved steam boiler furnace.
5. Alice Coachman (1923-2014)
Alice Coachman was one of 10 children born in Albany, Georgia. She was often denied the opportunity to train for or compete in organized sports events. She improvised her training, running barefoot in fields and on dirt roads, using old equipment to improve her high jump. Alice broke the high school and college high jump records, barefoot, in the Amateur Athlete Union national championship’s track and field competition. In 1948 Alice set a record in the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 6 1/8 inches, making her the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. King George VI of Queen Elizabeth II, awarded her the honor.
6. Thomas L. Jennings (1791-February 12, 1856)
Thomas was the first African American person to invent an early method of dry cleaning called “dry scouring” and Patented it in 1821 – four years before Paris tailor Jean Baptist Jolly refined his own chemical technique. People object to an African American receiving a patent, but he was a free man so he had no slave-master to own his rights to the patent. Thomas further extended patent rights to all African American individuals, both slaves and freedmen. Thomas used the money from his invention to free the rest of his family and donate to abolitionist causes.
7. Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904- April 1, 1950)
Charles was the first African American physician responsible for America’s first major blood banks. He further refined key methods of collecting, processing, and storing plasma. He developed a blood bank for military personnel under the American Red Cross. Eventually he resigned in protest after he learned that the military separated blood donations according to race. He was a surgeon and a professor. In 1943 he became the first African American doctor to be chosen as an examiner for the American Board of Surgery.
8. Patricia Bath (1942-2019)
Patricia Bath was the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986. Patricia was born in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. Her father was a former Merchant Marine and an occasional newspaper columnist. In 1976 she co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, which established that “eyesight is a basic human right.” Patricia had many roles in the medical field. She further was a strong advocate of telemedicine, which uses technology to provide medical services in remote areas.
9. Sarah Elisabeth Good (1855-April 8, 1905)
Sarah Elisabeth Goode was the first African-American woman to receive a United States patent in 1885. She was the 2nd of seven children. Sarah invented a folding cabinet bed which helped people who lived in tight housing to utilize their space efficiently.
10. Barack Hussein Obama II (August 4, 1961- present)
He is a Black American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009-2071. He inspired many voters young and old to make it to the polls to vote. Obama not only served one term as President, but two terms. Among many of his accomplishments he graduated from Harvard Law School, became a civil rights attorney, and represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997-2004. While he was President some of his accomplishments included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), reduced nuclear weapons with the United States-Russia New START treaty, Advocate for gun control, and much more. Besides this President Obama can sing. He has an awesome voice. Al Green does not have anything on him. He is still living and his legacy with go down in History. How many other great people can you think of?
As we celebrate Black History Month I must say I enjoyed researching these famous people. I learned a lot. What are you doing to celebrate Black History Month?
Sources:
The Kentucky Derby’s forgotten Black Jockeys
Granville T. Woods (1856-1910)
10 African American Inventors Who Changed the World
Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855-April8, 1905)
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Teaching my students that African-American History is the history of the United States. Finding nuggets that people don't really know.
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