Words Are Important,

But Action Is BETTER!

The Seal Team 4

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Celebrating Black Women

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American Culture

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C e n t r a l S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y

The Seal Team 4

Professor Rosalind Osinubi – African American History Educator

Mrs. Diana Daniel - Student

Mrs. Mary Holt-Dudley – Parent/Grandparent

Sandy Williams, MSA, PhD – Organizing For America Glorious Days

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Professor Rosalind Osinubi

OF

RHISTORIAN.COM LLC

“THE FIELD TRIP PROFESSOR”,

African American History Educator,

C e n t r a l S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y 4

ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA

GLORIOUS DAYS, INC.

Sandy Williams, MSA, PhD

www.daytongloriousdays.com

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Mrs. Diana Daniel Student, Central State University

Early Childhood 6

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Mrs. Mary Holt-Duley

Parent/Grandparent

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Community Organizer

Knowledge is the fundamental basis of

competition.

Competing successfully on knowledge requires either

aligning strategy to what the organization knows, or

developing and capabilities needed to support a desired

strategy.

Common sources of external knowledge include

publications, public/private schools, colleges, trading

schools, and universities, government agencies,

professional associations, personal relations,

consultants, and vendors. 8

Educators need to keep up on recent research and ideas to

educate and stimulate the student who will be going into our

society.

Education is one of the basic constituents of the fabric of life.

The educator is not his or her own person; he or she is actually

the student who molds his method to meet student’s needs

and rise above his or her individuality.

The educator’s role is also cultural which is the sum total of our

spiritual output in the visible world. We as educators have an

obligation to the World to give it through our students increase

knowledge of the Truth. It is good to accept our Calling from

God. By doing this, we will accomplish God’s goal for us! 9

President Obama signed a proclamation, declaring February

National African American History Month.

This year's theme, "Black Women in American Culture and

History," specifically recognizes the numerous, unique contributions

that African-American women have made to the advancement of the

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Honoring A Black Woman In American Culture And History

February 2013

First Lady, Michelle Obama

Wife, Mother, & World Leader

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I present to you, our 1st lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama! Michelle Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the first lady of the United States, married to President Barack Obama. She's an attorney with two children: Malia and Sasha. Michelle was born in Chicago and can trace her lineage to pre-Civil War black slaves in the American South. Before she was a mother—or a wife, lawyer or public servant—she was Fraser and Marian Robinson’s daughter. Michelle is a product of Chicago public schools. She studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University.

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She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 and joined the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she later met the man who would become the love of her life. Michelle’s true calling was working with people to serve their communities and their neighbors. She served as assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago’s City Hall before becoming the founding executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program that prepares youth for public service.

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In 1996, Mrs. Obama joined the University of Chicago with a vision of bringing campus and community together. She was Associate Dean of Student Services where she developed the University’s 1st community service program. Volunteerism skyrocketed under her leadership as Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center. In 2010, as First Lady, Mrs. Obama launched Let’s Move!, a campaign to bring together community leaders, educators, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide effort to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.

Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013

1. Sojourner Truth

2. Harriet Tubman

3. Dorothy Height

4. Rosa Parks

5. Dr. Maya Angelou 15

Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013

Sojourner Truth {Circa 1797 – Nov 26, 1883}

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Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman were twin mountain peaks in the tradition of black women. Wearing her trademark turban and sunbonnet, ex-slave Sojourner Truth crossed the country for 40 years, drawing on her experiences and deep faith to preach against the cruelties of slavery and to support human rights for African Americans and women. Born Isabella Bomefree in Ulster County, New York, in 1797, Sojourner Truth had a succession of cruel slave masters. Her first master relegated her family to the cold wet cellar during Truth’s early childhood. Much later, under the ownership of John I. Dumont, she met her husband, Thomas, and had 5 children, 3 of whom were sold away.

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When Dumont reneged on a promise to free Truth in 1827, a year before New York’s Gradual Emancipation Act became law, Sojourner Truth escaped with her infant daughter, Sophia. She found shelter with Isaac Van Wagenen, who purchased her remaining time as a slave. Sojourner Truth will best be remembered as an abolitionist, suffragist, and feminist. She remained an outspoken advocate for social reform and temperance until she died on November 26, 1883, at the age of 86.

Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013

Araminta Harriet Ross [Harriet Tubman]

{Circa 1885 – Mar 10, 1913 (aged 93)}

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Harriet Tubman was born on a slave-breeding plantation in Maryland, around 1821, one of 11 children of Harriet and Benjamin Ross. Originally named Araminta, she was renamed Harriet by her mother. In an attempt to stop a nearby runaway slave, Tubman’s master threw a two-pound weight on her head as a child. The weight crushed her skull and caused her sleeping fits and headaches that plagued her all her life. After the master died, it was rumored that the slaves were to be sent to the Deep South. Tubman once said, “There was one or two things I had right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time come for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.”

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For her heroic work, Tubman received many honors, including a medal from Queen Victoria of England. Shrewd and tough, both mentally and physically, Tubman is possibly the only woman to have led U.S. Army, troops in battle, which she did in the Civil War with Union soldiers. In addition to her heroic work on the Underground Railroad, where she conducted slaves to freedom, Tubman also served the Union Army as a Nurse, Scout, and Spy. Unquestionably the best known conductor on the Underground Railroad. With stops in the South, the Underground Railroad operated primarily in New England and the Ohio Western Reserve, where secrecy in helping runaway slaves was essential in the pre-Civil War era. Tubman died in Auburn, New York, on March 10, 1913. After her death, a campaign was launched to collect funds for a monument in the town square. The monument stands in testimony to her indomitable will.

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Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013

Dorothy Irene Height {Mar 24, 1912 – Apr 20, 2010 [aged 93]}

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Social Activist, Dorothy Irene Height, the spearhead behind the Black Family Reunion Movement, spent decades trumpeting the fight for African American civil rights, women’s issues, and economic well-being for people worldwide. Her work with groups such as the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST), and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) made her a leader in the battle for equality and human rights. Dorothy Height was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, VA. Her family moved to the small mining town of Rankin, PA, where Height was a tall, straight-A student who excelled in athletics. Height, the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, continues to be a firebrand in the struggle to improve the lives of blacks and women.

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Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013

Rosa Louise McCauley [Rosa Parks]

{Feb 4, 1913 – Oct 24, 2005 [aged 92]}

Civil Rights Activist

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King,

Jr. in the background

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise Mcauley in Tuskegee, AL, in 1913. For the next 42 years, she would live her life in obscurity until one fateful day in Montgomery, AL. For more than 50 years, Rosa Parks has been a guiding symbol in the struggle for black equality. In December 1955, 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Parks joined the workers at the bus stop after a hard day at her tailoring job. When the bus arrived, all the seats in the back, where blacks were allowed to sit, were quickly taken. Parks sat down in the white section. The bus driver told her and several other African Americans to give up their seats to whites who got on after she did. Parks refused to move. The bus driver called the police, and Parks was arrested. She and her husband (Raymond) later lost their jobs.

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Her refusal to give up her sear sparked a movement against segregation in Montgomery, which started with a 381-day bus boycott by African Americans. The leader of that boycott went on to become quite famous—a young black minister named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was arrested and his life was threatened because of the successful boycott. Subsequently, King and his father, Martin Luther King, Sr., and other ministers, including the Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Wyatt T. Walker, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). These events, kicked off by Parks’ nonviolent passive resistance, officially launched the Civil Rights Movement. The U.S. Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional on December 21, 1956 which ended boycott. Also, because of Rosa Parks’ refusal to submit to white privilege kicked off a liberation struggle that named her the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Celebrating Black Women In American Culture And History

February 2013 Marquerite Ann Johnson [Dr. Maya Angelou] DOB: Apr 4, 1928

Occupation: Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, and professor.

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In 1958, Singer Billie Holiday told Maya Angelou that she would not be famous for her singing. But some critics have said the rhythmic, lyrical stories of this best-selling poet, actress, director, dancer, and professor are like the songs of a writer nourished on mother talk and the music of the black church. Maya Angelou, a cinnamon-colored woman who stands 6 feet tall, was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 (April 4, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination), in St. Louis, MO. In the 1950s, Angelou, landed a role in the U.S. State Department-sponsored production of Porgy and Bess, which toured 22 countries in Europe and Africa. She became involved in the Civil Rights

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Movement in the 1960s, becoming northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Dr. Maya Angelou is the 1st African American woman to have a feature film created based on one of her own stories in 1971. The Actor and Director and Author, Dr. Angelou delivers a poem at the swearing in a ceremony for President Bill Clinton in 1993.

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