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welcome to watchmojo.com information
that may have been glossed over in
history class in this installment we’ll
be counting down the top five facts
about black history that celebrate three
simple words black is beautiful before
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content number five
Black History Month started as Black
History Week hold up it’s that time of
the year again it’s come up to shine
everybody lindo arrogant 28 or 29 days
isn’t nearly enough time to discuss the
accomplishments of the black community
so we can’t imagine only having seven
but that was the case in 1926 when
author and historian Carter G Woodson
launched the celebration of Negro
History Week in the hopes of
highlighting the community during a time
when their efforts were being ignored in
1969 the leaders of the black United
students at Kent State University
proposed an extension and seven years
later or fifty years after the week’s
inception the US government made the
month official honoring black excellence
isn’t exclusive to the u.s. both the UK
and Canada participates with the UK
celebrating in October and Canada
following suit with the US February
recognition no person can imagine where
he’s going a Mexican military in Spain
number four black colleges offered
opportunities to other discriminated
communities black history has had an
impact on well everyone we don’t just
mean the majority we mean other minority
groups that have had to deal with
oppression black institutions have a
history of opening their doors to other
groups who at the time didn’t have
anywhere else to go prime example of
this being the Jewish community
historically these institutions have
admitted students of all races and now
almost 40% are other than African
American in the 1930s Jewish teachers
came to the u.s. in hopes of finding
jobs after losing their positions in
Austria and Germany unfortunately the
words of the day were xenophobia and
anti-semitism but black historical
colleges ignored those words and
employed over 50 Jewish academics
not only did this create a safe
environment for them to work in but it
allowed black and white individuals to
engage in important conversations they
have been driven by the fundamental
belief that all of our citizens should
have access to a higher education if
they so desire
number three Allensworth was the first
all-black township in California I am
Jefferson Allensworth Lam Jefferson for
he who framed up buyin Constitution
Allen’s work for he who found the
community of free blacks and Lam cut
like to eat lamb chops if you build it
they will come
especially if it means getting away from
racial discrimination that was the goal
for Allen Allensworth a man who was born
into slavery and who would later become
the first African American to become a
lieutenant colonel
after his army days him and his family
moved to California where he began to
implement his dream creating an
all-black community where they would be
allowed to thrive and be free of
discrimination the town had many great
successes including having California’s
first african-american school district
even after Colonel Allensworth died in
1914 and when people started leaving to
pursue jobs during World War two
the town continues on and is still
around today its downtown area now
stands as the Colonel Allensworth State
Historic Park and there are still
residents who live outside of it number
two Claudette Colvin did Rosa Parks
before Rosa Parks despite their
impressive history black women don’t
always get the recognition they deserve
of course there are women we talk about
every February such as Claudette Colvin
and her refusal to give up her seat on
the bus but what’s that you believe
we’re referring to Rosa Parks yes it’s
true that miss parks was the catalyst in
the Montgomery bus boycott but nine
months before this historical moment 15
year old Claudette was the first to ever
be arrested for not giving up her seat
as she insisted that it was her
constitutional right and I was felt like
this is my time to take a stand
suggested she may not have gotten the
recognition at the time but her impact
is undeniable I just wanted people to
come together and unify and fight this
segregation number one there have been
many notable achievements in black
geekery for some reason people are
surprised when black nerds
or blurred if you prefer enter the scene
I’m gonna give you the good the bad and
the nerdy in reality they’ve been here
the entire time
in fact we wouldn’t have some of the
geekery we hold dear without them meet
Gerald a Jerry Lawson the man
responsible for home video game consoles
with his Fairchild channel F the first
system to use interchangeable cartridges
if you’re a movie buff
check out Mark Hanna who could develop
the 3d graphics technology used in a lot
of movies including a little-known flick
about dinosaurs in some Park you even
have black geeks to thank for the super
soaker invented by Lonnie Johnson
because really what’s nerdier than
running around with epic water guns
this epic black cosplay movement that’s
what
we hope we’ve been lightened view about
the significance of black history
because we barely scratched the surface
of the accomplishments of black
community our school has a fine library
or so I’ve been told
are any student who wants who can study
more about black history do you agree
with our kicks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
[Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com information
that may have been glossed over in
history class in this installment we’ll
be counting down the top five facts
about black history that celebrate three
simple words black is beautiful before
we begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content number five
Black History Month started as Black
History Week hold up it’s that time of
the year again it’s come up to shine
everybody lindo arrogant 28 or 29 days
isn’t nearly enough time to discuss the
accomplishments of the black community
so we can’t imagine only having seven
but that was the case in 1926 when
author and historian Carter G Woodson
launched the celebration of Negro
History Week in the hopes of
highlighting the community during a time
when their efforts were being ignored in
1969 the leaders of the black United
students at Kent State University
proposed an extension and seven years
later or fifty years after the week’s
inception the US government made the
month official honoring black excellence
isn’t exclusive to the u.s. both the UK
and Canada participates with the UK
celebrating in October and Canada
following suit with the US February
recognition no person can imagine where
he’s going a Mexican military in Spain
number four black colleges offered
opportunities to other discriminated
communities black history has had an
impact on well everyone we don’t just
mean the majority we mean other minority
groups that have had to deal with
oppression black institutions have a
history of opening their doors to other
groups who at the time didn’t have
anywhere else to go prime example of
this being the Jewish community
historically these institutions have
admitted students of all races and now
almost 40% are other than African
American in the 1930s Jewish teachers
came to the u.s. in hopes of finding
jobs after losing their positions in
Austria and Germany unfortunately the
words of the day were xenophobia and
anti-semitism but black historical
colleges ignored those words and
employed over 50 Jewish academics
not only did this create a safe
environment for them to work in but it
allowed black and white individuals to
engage in important conversations they
have been driven by the fundamental
belief that all of our citizens should
have access to a higher education if
they so desire
number three Allensworth was the first
all-black township in California I am
Jefferson Allensworth Lam Jefferson for
he who framed up buyin Constitution
Allen’s work for he who found the
community of free blacks and Lam cut
like to eat lamb chops if you build it
they will come
especially if it means getting away from
racial discrimination that was the goal
for Allen Allensworth a man who was born
into slavery and who would later become
the first African American to become a
lieutenant colonel
after his army days him and his family
moved to California where he began to
implement his dream creating an
all-black community where they would be
allowed to thrive and be free of
discrimination the town had many great
successes including having California’s
first african-american school district
even after Colonel Allensworth died in
1914 and when people started leaving to
pursue jobs during World War two
the town continues on and is still
around today its downtown area now
stands as the Colonel Allensworth State
Historic Park and there are still
residents who live outside of it number
two Claudette Colvin did Rosa Parks
before Rosa Parks despite their
impressive history black women don’t
always get the recognition they deserve
of course there are women we talk about
every February such as Claudette Colvin
and her refusal to give up her seat on
the bus but what’s that you believe
we’re referring to Rosa Parks yes it’s
true that miss parks was the catalyst in
the Montgomery bus boycott but nine
months before this historical moment 15
year old Claudette was the first to ever
be arrested for not giving up her seat
as she insisted that it was her
constitutional right and I was felt like
this is my time to take a stand
suggested she may not have gotten the
recognition at the time but her impact
is undeniable I just wanted people to
come together and unify and fight this
segregation number one there have been
many notable achievements in black
geekery for some reason people are
surprised when black nerds
or blurred if you prefer enter the scene
I’m gonna give you the good the bad and
the nerdy in reality they’ve been here
the entire time
in fact we wouldn’t have some of the
geekery we hold dear without them meet
Gerald a Jerry Lawson the man
responsible for home video game consoles
with his Fairchild channel F the first
system to use interchangeable cartridges
if you’re a movie buff
check out Mark Hanna who could develop
the 3d graphics technology used in a lot
of movies including a little-known flick
about dinosaurs in some Park you even
have black geeks to thank for the super
soaker invented by Lonnie Johnson
because really what’s nerdier than
running around with epic water guns
this epic black cosplay movement that’s
what
we hope we’ve been lightened view about
the significance of black history
because we barely scratched the surface
of the accomplishments of black
community our school has a fine library
or so I’ve been told
are any student who wants who can study
more about black history do you agree
with our kicks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
[Music]
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