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Black and Education

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Stories about Black History delves into the human side of the experiences we have had throughout America and the world.

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Who Was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Grandfather?

January 13, 2024 15:28 - 38 minutes - 70.1 MB

Let's explore the man who laid the foundation for Dr. King and his family in Atlanta.

What is Fannie Lou Hamer Known For?

October 05, 2023 12:38 - 39.4 MB

Fannie Lou Hamer was a remarkable woman. Let's explore her early beginnings in life, her days fighting to register to vote, her time being beaten in jail and her famous speech during the Democratic National Convention, in 1964.

Thutmose III and the Battle of Megiddo

September 05, 2023 18:48

In the first year of his reign (after the reign of his aunt, Hatshepsut, 1479 - 1458 BC), King Thutmose III began a twenty-year effort to regain control of areas that had been won under his father and predecessors. The records of his efforts are carved in monuments in the Temple of Amen at Karnak.

Shepenwepet II - Nubian Priestess and Princess

September 05, 2023 16:23

About 700 years before Christ, B.C., the land of Kemet (Egypt) was ruled by Nubian Kings along with the land of Kush. Kashta and Piye (Piankhy), father and son kings of Kush, helped to create a united country that consisted of Kush (in today’s Sudan) and, first Upper Kemet, then all of Kemet. In particular King Piankhy established rule and set up governance of this new kingdom, from his home base in Napata in today’s Sudan.

Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells

April 21, 2023 20:45 - 8 minutes - 16.5 MB

Ida B. Wells wrote about several incidences in Georgia, in 1899. This is an excerpt of the murders of several men, who were tied together in a warehouse, awaiting trial the next morning on the accusation of arson. “That the awful story of their slaughter may not be considered overdrawn, the following description is taken from the columns of the Atlanta Journal , as it was written by Royal Daniel, a staff correspondent. The story of the lynching thus told is as follows :

Selina Norris Gray: What is She Known For?

March 31, 2023 15:32 - 11 minutes - 20.8 MB

Selina and Thornton Gray should be best know for what they did for their family, not for anything they did for Robert E. Lee or George Washington’s legacy.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger: What Did He Invent?

March 17, 2023 23:27 - 3 minutes - 5.67 MB

Who was Jan Ernst Matzeliger and what did he invent? Find out now.

Granville T. Woods

March 15, 2023 20:19 - 4 minutes - 8.21 MB

What was Granville T. Woods famous for? What did he invent and where can his impact be felt today?

Al Andalus: Moors in Spain

March 12, 2023 22:59

Who were the Moors? The Iberian peninsula, what is today Spain and Portugal, was inhabited in some way for well over 700 years by Islamic people we call the Moors.

Black Inventors in History: John Parker

March 09, 2023 22:42 - 3 minutes - 6.67 MB

John Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, VA. He was enslaved and was sold at the age of 8, from Virginia to Mobile, AL. Imagine what is was like for an…

Arkansas Riot 1919 by Ida B. Wells

February 16, 2023 23:26

“Economic justice reached its awful climax in 1919 in the final answer to two appeals made by working men, both groups seeking through peaceful appeal to win better wage and working conditions; both presenting their grievances through chosen representatives, one to be rewarded by the President of the United States with patient hearing and final success, the other to suffer massacre at the hands of the mob and the death penalty by courts of law.”

Adam Daniel Williams: Martin Luther King's Grandfather

January 08, 2023 20:41 - 6 minutes - 12.5 MB

Adam Daniel Williams was a catalyst for his grandson's actions and laid the foundation for him in many ways.

Phillis Wheatley: An Example of Erudition

December 12, 2022 22:23 - 4 minutes - 8.03 MB

Who was Phillis Wheatley? Where was she born? How did she get the name Phillis? All this and more are covered in this episode.

Who Was Elias Camp Morris? and Arkansas Baptist College

December 11, 2022 21:07 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MB

Elias Camp Morris was a fierce leader of the National Baptist Convention for 27 years. He helped to bring that organization to further prominence through his leadership, publishing efforts and strong support for educational institutions, including some colleges that are still around today.

American Baptist College - Founded in 1924

November 07, 2022 23:01 - 3 minutes - 6.13 MB

September 14, 1924, the American Baptist College opened its doors. Like some other historically Black colleges, the American Baptist College got its start from a religious organization.

Allen University: Founded in 1870

October 16, 2022 22:10 - 6 minutes - 11.2 MB

Allen University was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1870.  It’s hard for me to think of another institution (outside of the Federal Government) that has supported and established more institutions of higher learning than the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It cannot be overstated that the AME Church had a lasting and phenomenal impact on the lives of many Black Americans.  It was the first independent African-American religious denomination.

Alcorn State University: Founded in 1871

October 07, 2022 01:05 - 4 minutes - 8.8 MB

Alcorn State University was founded in 1871. It offered higher education to areas where none might not have been available to many people in rural Mississippi, but its greatest testament is shared by those who graced its halls, namely Hiram Revels and Medgar Evers.

Albany State University: Founded in 1903

October 04, 2022 23:51 - 4 minutes - 8.03 MB

Albany State University was founded in 1903 with rich traditions and a long history, its stories are best told through the experiences of the people who lived them.

Alabama State University: Founded in 1867

October 02, 2022 20:25 - 4 minutes - 8.21 MB

Alabama State University was active in several ways at the end of the Civil War, when it was founded, and at the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Alabama A&M University: Founded in 1875

September 29, 2022 17:42 - 2 minutes - 5.04 MB

Alabama A&M University offers educational opportunities to students seeking to kickoff their careers.

W.C. Handy: A Musical Genius

September 29, 2021 22:51

W. C. Handy was born in Florence, Alabama. He was born William Christopher Handy on November 16, 1873 to Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy.

Henry Highland Garnet: His Most Famous Speech

September 23, 2021 21:27

Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties. Now is the day and the hour. Let every slave throughout the land do this, and the days of slavery are numbered. You…

Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson

August 08, 2021 20:26 - 6 minutes - 12 MB

Sir if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will readily embrace every opportunity to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions which so generally prevails with respect to us, and that your Sentiments are concurrent with mine, which are that one universal Father hath given being to us all, and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but that he hath also without partiality afforded us all the Same Sensations, and endued us all with the same…

Sally Hemings: She was Only Fourteen

July 24, 2021 10:43 - 11 minutes - 21.5 MB

When I think about Sally Hemings and her mother, Elizabeth Hemings, I think about the words “Me too!”

Olivia J. Hooker: A Doctor, a Survivor and an Educator

June 02, 2021 19:42 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MB

Dr. Olivia J. Hooker was a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology, one of the first African-American women to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921.

How Much Money Has Been Made Off of the Black Home

December 12, 2020 16:09 - 5 minutes - 10.5 MB

For the few Blacks who were able to get homes, their homes “may have” risen in value, but so much of the money surrounding the housing industry was going to white people who were profiting off of a segregated area.

How Much Money Has Been Made Off of the Black Home?

December 12, 2020 16:09 - 5 minutes - 10.5 MB

For the few Blacks who were able to get homes, their homes “may have” risen in value, but so much of the money surrounding the housing industry was going to white people who were profiting off of a segregated area.

A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 3)

November 07, 2020 16:33 - 15 minutes - 28.4 MB

“They went from there across the railroad into what is known as Darktown and Brooklyn; they had sent a committee to remove all the white women and their children down town, where they had prepared a guard to keep them secure. They marched through the streets protected by these military and citizen regulators, perfectly safe.”

A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 2)

November 03, 2020 20:25 - 6 minutes - 12.5 MB

Once the supporters of white supremacy in New Hanover County (Wilmington, NC) gained the desired victories on election day, November 8, 1898, they were not finished. There were other offices in the city they wanted such as mayor of the city, chief of police and aldermen—even though those positions were not on the ballot or up for change.

A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 1)

October 29, 2020 21:33 - 8 minutes - 15 MB

“There is little doubt that if a Republican ticket is brought out for county offices, the situation here will become more serious than ever. The Democrats, have carried out their part of the arrangement with the Governor by changing their candidates for the lower House of Legislature, and they are furious over the talk of a Negro county ticket.”

Thurgood Marshall: His Most Famous Dissent (Oct. 1972)

October 13, 2020 17:26 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MB

I, for one, am unsatisfied with the hope of an ultimate “political” solution sometime in the indefinite future while, in the meantime, countless children unjustifiably receive inferior educations that "may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

Thurgood Marshall: His Most Famous Dissent

October 13, 2020 17:26 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MB

I, for one, am unsatisfied with the hope of an ultimate “political” solution sometime in the indefinite future while, in the meantime, countless children unjustifiably receive inferior educations that "may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

Self Help: Her Words of Wisdom (Ida B. Wells)

October 02, 2020 19:30 - 10 minutes - 19.2 MB

In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such great outrage and provocation. To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its rehabilitation. If labor is withdrawn

Breonna Taylor: Remember Her Story

September 25, 2020 21:31 - 5 minutes - 10.5 MB

Breonna Taylor was in her apartment at about 12:40 am on March 13, 2020. Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was with her. They had already turned in for the night and were in bed watching a movie, when Breonna fell asleep. According to Kenneth Walker, they suddenly heard a loud bang at the door. They didn’t know who it was and thought it might be some kind of intruder at that time of night. Breonna yelled, “Who is it?” They heard no reply.

Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil

September 17, 2020 21:20 - 7 minutes - 14 MB

I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The house was quaint, with clap boards running up and down, neatly trimmed, and there were five rooms, a tiny porch, a rosy front yard, and unbelievably

Robert Charles and Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells

September 12, 2020 12:02 - 10 minutes - 19.1 MB

The bloodiest week which New Orleans has know since the massacre of the Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans. Fortified by the assurance born of long experience in the New Orleans service, three policemen, Sergeant Aucoin, Officer Mora and Officer Cantrelle, observing two colored

Kate Brown: U.S. Senate and Supreme Court Case

September 07, 2020 13:57 - 11 minutes - 20.1 MB

On Saturday, the 8th of February, I went to the Washington depot at 1 o’clock, waited until two, and purchased a ticket to go and return; I left the office and started to go to the car; on the platform there was a man who said, “Take the rear car.” I made no reply, but went in and took my seat in what they call the white people’s car; the cars left here at 2 o’clock, and I was about to return in the 3 o’clock

Chapter 11 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

August 30, 2020 14:32 - 27 minutes - 50.3 MB

I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally succeeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to state all the facts connected with the transaction. My reasons for pursuing this course may be understood from the following: First, were I to give a minute statement of all the facts, it is not only possible, but quite probable, that others would thereby be involved ...

Chapter 10 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

August 16, 2020 00:11 - 1 hour - 123 MB

Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don't know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action to the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him.

Chapter 9 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

August 15, 2020 18:10 - 10 minutes - 19.7 MB

Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect. My master was one of this rare sort. I do not know of one single noble act ever performed by him. The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there were any other element in his nature, it was made subject to this. He was mean; and, like most other mean men, he lacked the ability to conceal his meanness. Captain Auld was not born a slaveholder. He had been a poor man, ...

Chapter 8 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

February 02, 2020 16:10 - 10 minutes - 19 MB

He died while on a visit to see his daughter at Hillsborough. Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property. It was therefore necessary to have a valuation of the property, that it might be equally divided between Mrs. Lucretia and Master Andrew. I was immediately sent for, to be valued with the other property. Here again my feelings rose up in detestation of slavery. I had now a new conception of my degraded condition. Prior to this, I had become, if not...

Chapter 7 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

December 27, 2019 15:31 - 12 minutes - 22.7 MB

… ]I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else. It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It...

Chapter 6 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

November 18, 2019 03:16 - 7 minutes - 12.9 MB

My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting

Chapter 5 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

November 10, 2019 04:39 - 8 minutes - 16.4 MB

As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, it was very similar to that of the other slave children. I was not old enough to work in the field, and there being little else than field work to do, I had a great deal of leisure time. The most I had to do was to drive up the cows at evening, keep the fowls out of the garden, keep the front yard clean, and run of errands for my old master's daughter, Mrs. Lucretia Auld. The most of my leisure time I spent in helping M...

Chapter 4 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

October 31, 2019 16:38 - 9 minutes - 16.6 MB

…Mr. Austin Gore, a man possessing, in an eminent degree, all those traits of character indispensable to what is called a first-rate overseer. Mr. Gore had served Colonel Lloyd, in the capacity of overseer, upon one of the out-farms, and had shown himself worthy of the high station of overseer upon the home or Great House Farm. He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man.

Chapter 3 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

October 24, 2019 17:33 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MB

Colonel Lloyd kept a large and finely cultivated garden, which afforded almost constant employment for four men, besides the chief gardener, (Mr. M'Durmond.) This garden was probably the greatest attraction of the place. During the summer months, people came from far and near—from Baltimore, Easton, and Annapolis—to see it. It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south. This garden was not the least source of tro...

Chapter 2 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

October 20, 2019 17:20 - 11 minutes - 21.3 MB

The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars.

Chapter 1 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

October 12, 2019 19:48 - 11 minutes - 21 MB

My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather.

No One Was Ever Charged: July 30, 1866

August 12, 2019 22:58 - 10 minutes - 18.7 MB

In December of 1863, Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which gave really an olive branch to Confederate states that wished to rejoin the Union, even though the Civil War wasn’t quite over, yet.  This proclamation allowed for the consideration of readmission to take place if ten percent of a state’s voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union and if other conditions were met, namely the abolition of slavery and respect for the laws of the United States.

Greenwood, Tulsa OK - 1921

April 15, 2019 00:49 - 5 minutes - 9.53 MB

On May 30, 1921 a young man named Dick Rowland, who was about 19 years old, got on an elevator in the Drexel Building, on South Main St.   He entered the elevator and, in some way, came in contact with Sarah Page, who was the elevator’s operator.  She was about 17 years old.  Sarah let out a scream and a clerk in a nearby store heard her yell, Dick Rowland ran from the scene, and the store clerk called the police.