Black and Education

Black and Education

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Black and Education episodes

  • Frederick Douglass: How He Became a Man
    Many times we tend to see people the way they are when they are at the
    height of their fame, but you never know what a person went through to get
    where they are...and in Frederick Douglass's case, what he went through to
    get into a position to help others. In 1834, on January 1st, Frederick
    made his way to the home of the man who was supposed to “break” him.
    Edward Covey was a small man who believed in harsh treatment, as a way of
    making sure enslaved people would be, forever, obedient.
    11 min
  • The Riot of 1835: Washington, DC
    In the summer of 1835 Arthur Bowen was on his way home in the evening, when
    he reached the front door of his owner’s residence. Bowen was about
    eighteen years old and he was owned by Anna Thornton, who was the widow of
    William Thornton—the first Architect of the Capitol. Dr. William Thornton
    was born in the British West Indies and his proposed design for the U.S.
    Capitol was accepted by George Washington, in 1793. He was awarded $500
    and a lot in the city of Washington for his work. He moved to the city in
    1794 and George Washington appointed him to a position as one of the city’s
    commissioners. Thomas Jefferson, later, appointed him head of the Patent
    Office, in 1802.
    7 min
  • Harriet Tubman and the Dover Eight
    What caused Harriet Tubman to fight back? What political actions supported
    the existence of slavery? This book explores the life of Harriet Tubman
    and some of the religious, political and social supports that made slavery
    exist for so long.
    6 min
  • Frederick Douglass's Mother: Harriet
    Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot
    County, Maryland. His mother’s name was Harriet and she was forced to
    leave her children, by the man who owned them. She was hired out to
    neighboring farms and her children would stay with her mother, until they
    were several years old.
    5 min
  • Fanny Jackson-Coppin: Excellence in Education
    “I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school
    to be educated.  This is a great mistake.  If the person is to get the
    benefit of what we call education, he must educate himself, under the
    direction of the teacher.”
    If there were a few words that could sum up Mrs. Fanny Jackson-Coppin they
    would be, “excellence in education.”
    9 min
  • Sit-ins and Standing Up
    Four young men from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College changed
    their world when they decided to stand up for their own rights.
    Their names were Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and
    Joseph McNeil. They were freshmen at North Carolina A&T in the fall of
    1959 and they became friends when they met that year. One of the things
    that they had in common was that they shared a disdain for the inequalities
    that surrounded them.
    5 min
  • Collingwood's Massacre
    In 1781 a slave ship, named the Zong (based out of Liverpool, England), was
    on a horrible trip to get human beings—to sell them in Jamaica. The ship
    made it to Africa, along the coast of present-day Ghana, and then to Sao
    Tome (or St. Thomas, an island near present day Gabon and Equatorial
    Guinea). Luke Collingwood was the captain of the ship and he decided to go
    with a “tight” packing method.
    5 min
  • Admiral Michelle Howard: First Female Four-Star Admiral
    Michelle Howard was born in the year 1960 and graduated from high school in
    Aurora, Colorado. She went on to the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland and
    graduated from there in 1982.
    She would go on to become the first female graduate of the United States
    Naval Academy to earn the title of admiral.
    5 min

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