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Wausau committee approves YMCA’s additional parking request

Wausau's Infrastructure and Facilities Committee on Thursday approved Woodson YMCA’s request to install angled parking lots around its senior activity center and an easement to construct a skywalk across Third Street for better patron accessibility.

Damakant Jayshi Wausau’s Infrastructure and Facilities Committee on Thursday approved Woodson YMCA’s request to install angled parking lots around its senior activity center and an easement to construct a skywalk across Third Street for better patron accessibility. The parking spots on three streets – on McIndoe Street between Third and Fourth Streets, on Fourth Street between Grand and…

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Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove to former slaves, Owen and Minerva Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana on December 23, 1867. Breedlove became an orphan at age seven when her parents died. Three years later, ten-year-old Sarah and her sister moved across to river to Vicksburg, Mississippi to work as maids. By her fourteenth birthday, Sarah married Moses McWilliams of Vicksburg and three years later gave birth to her only daughter Lelia (who later changed her name to A’Lelia). Breedlove became a widow in 1887. She and her daughter moved to St. Louis to join her older brothers who were barbers. While in St. Louis she found work as a washer woman earning $1.50 per day. She also married her second husband, John Davis, in 1894. The marriage lasted nine years.

In 1905, Breedlove moved to Denver, Colorado where she sold hair care products for St. Louis businesswoman Annie Pope-Turnbo. It was in Denver that she married her third husband, newspaper sales agent Charles Joseph Walker. She also decided in Denver to found a business to manufacture and market her own hair treatment formula which she called Wonderful Hair Grower. Breedlove adopted a new professional name, Madam C.J. Walker, which she retained after her divorce from Charles Walker in 1912 and began to offer her products for sale through door-to-door agents called Madam C.J. Walker Hair Culturists. Walker also set up a training school for her sales personnel.

As the business expanded Walker relocated her operations to Indianapolis, then the largest inland shipping hub in the nation, to establish a factory for her line of beauty products. She also created a chain of beauty parlors in major cities in the United States, South America, and the Caribbean. Breedlove also set up a training school for beauticians in Pittsburgh and began to advertise and sell products by mail order.

By 1915, Madam C. J. Walker was by far the wealthiest African American woman in the nation. Walker was now invited to major gatherings of black leaders and shared the platform with notables such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Her personal triumph inspired other women and she was often invited to lecture on business and politics. During World War I the federal government enlisted her to persuade African Americans to support the war effort and to buy war bonds even as it placed her on a list of “Negro subversives” because of her advocacy on behalf of black soldiers who faced racial discrimination. Walker also spoke out on the social conditions affecting African Americans and devoted particular attention and money to the campaign to make lynching a federal crime. Walker also donated money and time to the NAACP, the National Association of Colored Women, the YMCA, and the YWCA and provided the largest contribution for saving the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.

Madam C.J. Walker also lived lavishly in a country estate she called Villa Lewaro overlooking the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. Her neighbors included Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller. The home at Villa Lewaro, designed by the black architect, Vertner Woodson Tandy, also served as a conference center for summits of black leaders. On May 25, 1919, fifty-one-year-old Walker died at Villa Lewaro.

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Robert T. Browne (July 16, 1882 - October 15, 1978) was born near LaGrange, Texas. He was the son of a former enslaved who attended a Black Methodist church. He graduated from Samuel Huston College, he was hired as an assistant teacher. He married Mylie De Pre Adams (1903-11) and they had one son. He passed the federal civil service examination, he began working as a clerk at the Army Quartermaster Depot in San Antonio.

He moved to Harlem, working as a records clerk in the Quartermaster Corps, US War Department. He was active in the Methodist Church, YMCA, and the Negro Civic League of Greater New York. He co-founded the Negro Library Association which promoted literacy via exhibits of books, manuscripts, and photographs. He enrolled in experimental chemistry and literature classes at the City College of New York. He was an associate of the scholar Arthur Schomburg and historian Carter G. Woodson and assisted in advancing the mission of the American Negro Academy.

He released The Mystery of Space. The Mystery of Space was unlike anything published before that date by an African American author. He concealed his race when he submitted the manuscript. The respected critics of the book at the New York Times, London Mercury, New York’s Weekly Review, and the Springfield Republican, among others, heaped praise on his magnum opus.

He published the novel Cabriba: Garden of the Gods. He was a staunch supporter of Marcus Garvey, contributing to his organization’s newspaper, The Negro World. He relocated from Harlem to Brooklyn, began wearing a turban, pretended to be a foreigner, and renamed himself Mulla Hanaranda. He co-founded the occult organization Academy of Nations.

His job as a purchasing agent transferred to the Philippines. He and 3,000 American and British nationals were forced to endure life in the Santo Tomas internment camp. He married Cecilia Weiss (1947) and adopted her stepdaughter. In his book The Pantelicon, he attracted a devoted international following of spiritual knowledge seekers who regarded him as their ascended master. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been called the "father of black history". In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month.

Born in Virginia, the son of former slaves, Woodson had to put off schooling while he worked in the coal mines of West Virginia. He made it to Berea College, becoming a teacher and school administrator. He gained graduate degrees at the University of Chicago and in 1912 was the second African American, after W. E. B. Du Bois, to obtain a PhD degree from Harvard University. Most of Woodson's academic career was spent at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C., where he eventually served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Early life and education

Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia on December 19, 1875, the son of former slaves, Anne Eliza (Riddle) and James Henry Woodson. His parents were both illiterate and his father, who had helped the Union soldiers during the Civil War, supported the family as a carpenter and farmer. The Woodson family were extremely poor, but proud as both his parents told him that it was the happiest day of their lives when they became free. Woodson was often unable to regularly attend primary school so as to help out on the farm. Nonetheless, through self-instruction, he was able to master most school subjects.

At the age of seventeen, Woodson followed his brother to Huntington, where he hoped to attend the brand new secondary school for blacks, Douglass High School. However, Woodson, forced to work as a coal miner, was able to devote only minimal time each year to his schooling. In 1895, the twenty-year-old Woodson finally entered Douglass High School full-time, and received his diploma in 1897. From 1897 to 1900, Woodson taught at Winona. In 1900 he was selected as the principal of Douglass High School. He earned his Bachelor of Literature degree from Berea College in Kentucky in 1903 by taking classes part-time between 1901 and 1903. From 1903 to 1907, Woodson was a school supervisor in the Philippines.

Woodson later attended the University of Chicago, where he was awarded an A.B. and A.M. in 1908. He was a member of the first black professional fraternity Sigma Pi Phi and a member of Omega Psi Phi.He completed his PhD in history at Harvard University in 1912, where he was the second African American (after W. E. B. Du Bois) to earn a doctorate. His doctoral dissertation, The Disruption of Virginia, was based on research he did at the Library of Congress while teaching high school in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctoral degree, he continued teaching in public schools, as no university was willing to hire him, ultimately becoming the principal of the all-black Armstrong Manual Training School in Washington D.C. He later joined the faculty at Howard University as a professor, and served there as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His dissertation advisor was Albert Bushnell Hart, who had also been the advisor for Du Bois, with Edward Channing and Charles Haskins also on the committee.

Woodson felt that the American Historical Association (AHA) had no interest in black history, noting that though he was a due-paying member of the AHA, he was not allowed to attend AHA conferences. Woodson became convinced he had no future in the white-dominated historical profession, and to work as a black historian would require creating an institutional structure that would make it possible for black scholars to study history. As Woodson lacked the funds to finance such a new institutional structure himself, he turned to philanthropist institutions such as the Carnegie Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Career

Convinced that the role of his own people in American history and in the history of other cultures was being ignored or misrepresented among scholars, Woodson realized the need for research into the neglected past of African Americans. Along with William D. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps, he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History on September 9, 1915, in Chicago. That was the year Woodson published The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861. His other books followed: A Century of Negro Migration (1918) and The History of the Negro Church (1927). His work The Negro in Our History has been reprinted in numerous editions and was revised by Charles H. Wesley after Woodson's death in 1950. Woodson described the purpose of the ASNLH as the "scientific study" of the "neglected aspects of Negro life and history" by training a new generation of blacks in historical research and methodology. Believing that history belonged to everybody, not just the historians, Woodson sought to engage black civic leaders, high school teachers, clergymen, women's groups and fraternal associations in his project to improve the understanding of Afro-American history.

In January 1916, Woodson began publication of the scholarly Journal of Negro History. It has never missed an issue, despite the Great Depression, loss of support from foundations, and two World Wars. In 2002, it was renamed the Journal of African American History and continues to be published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).

Woodson stayed at the Wabash Avenue YMCA during visits to Chicago. His experiences at the Y and in the surrounding Bronzeville neighborhood inspired him to create the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History) ran conferences, published The Journal of Negro History, and "particularly targeted those responsible for the education of black children". Another inspiration was John Wesley Cromwell's 1914 book, The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent.

Woodson believed that education and increasing social and professional contacts among blacks and whites could reduce racism and he promoted the organized study of African-American history partly for that purpose. He would later promote the first Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in 1926, forerunner of Black History Month.The Bronzeville neighborhood declined during the late 1960s and 1970s like many other inner-city neighborhoods across the country, and the Wabash Avenue YMCA was forced to close during the 1970s, until being restored in 1992 by The Renaissance Collaborative.

He served as Academic Dean of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, now West Virginia State University, from 1920 to 1922. By 1922, Woodson's experience of academic politics and intrigue had left him so disenchanted with university life that he vowed never to work in academia again.

He studied many aspects of African-American history. For instance, in 1924, he published the first survey of free black slaveowners in the United States in 1830.

NAACP

Woodson became affiliated with the Washington, D.C. branch of the NAACP, and its chairman Archibald Grimké. On January 28, 1915, Woodson wrote a letter to Grimké expressing his dissatisfaction with activities and making two proposals:

That the branch secure an office for a center to which persons may report whatever concerns the black race may have, and from which the Association may extend its operations into every part of the city; and

That a canvasser be appointed to enlist members and obtain subscriptions for The Crisis, the NAACP magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Du Bois added the proposal to divert "patronage from business establishments which do not treat races alike," that is, boycott businesses. Woodson wrote that he would cooperate as one of the twenty-five effective canvassers, adding that he would pay the office rent for one month. Grimké did not welcome Woodson's ideas.

Responding to Grimké's comments about his proposals, on March 18, 1915, Woodson wrote:

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

His difference of opinion with Grimké, who wanted a more conservative course, contributed to Woodson's ending his affiliation with the NAACP.

Black History Month

Woodson devoted the rest of his life to historical research. He worked to preserve the history of African Americans and accumulated a collection of thousands of artifacts and publications. He noted that African-American contributions "were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them." Race prejudice, he concluded, "is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind."

The summer of 1919 was the "Red Summer", a time of intense racial violence that saw about 1,000 people, most of whom were black, killed between May and September 1919. In the face of widespread disillusionment felt in black America caused by the "Red Summer", Carter worked hard to improve the understanding of black history, later writing "I have made every sacrifice for this movement. I have spent all my time doing this one thing and trying to do it efficiently". The 1920s were a time of rising black self-consciousness expressed variously in movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Universal Negro Improvement Association led by an extremely charismatic Jamaican immigrant Marcus Garvey. In this atmosphere, Woodson was considered by other black Americans to be one of their most important community leaders who discovered their "lost history". Woodson's project for the "New Negro History" had a dual purpose of giving black Americans a history to be proud of and to ensure that the overlooked role of blacks in American history was acknowledged by white historians. Woodson wrote that he wanted a history that would ensure that "the world see the Negro as a participant rather than as a lay figure in history".

Woodson wrote "while the Association welcomes the cooperation of white scholars in certain projects...it proceeds also on the basis that its important objectives can be attained through Negro investigators who are in a position to develop certain aspects of the life and history of the race which cannot otherwise be treated. In the final analysis, this work must be done by Negroes...The point here is rather that Negroes have the advantage of being able to think black". Woodson's claim that only black historians could really understand black history anticipated the fierce debates that rocked the American historical profession in the 1960s-1970s when a younger generation of black historians claimed that only blacks were qualified to write about black history. Despite these claims, the need for money ensured that Woodson had several white philanthropists such as Julius Rosenwald, George Foster Peabody, and James H. Dillard elected to the board of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson preferred whites such as Rosenwald who were willing to finance his Association, but did not want to be involved in its work. Some of the whites that Woodson recruited such as the historian Albert Bushnell Hart and the teacher Thomas Jesse Jones were not content to play the passive role that he wanted, leading to personality clashes as both Hart and Jones wanted to write about black history. In 1920, both Jones and Hart resigned from the Board in protest against Woodson.

In 1926, Woodson pioneered the celebration of "Negro History Week", designated for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The Black United Students and Black educators at Kent State University expanded this idea to include an entire month beginning on February 1, 1970. Beginning in 1976 every US president has designated February as Black History Month.

Colleagues

Woodson believed in self-reliance and racial respect, values he shared with Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican activist who worked in New York. Woodson became a regular columnist for Garvey's weekly Negro World.

Woodson's political activism placed him at the center of a circle of many black intellectuals and activists from the 1920s to the 1940s. He corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois, John E. Bruce, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hubert H. Harrison, and T. Thomas Fortune, among others. Even with the extended duties of the Association, Woodson was able to write academic works such as The History of the Negro Church (1922), The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), and others which continue to have wide readership.

Woodson did not shy away from controversial subjects, and used the pages of Black World to contribute to debates. One issue related to West Indian/African-American relations. He summarized that "the West Indian Negro is free", and observed that West Indian societies had been more successful at properly dedicating the necessary amounts of time and resources needed to educate and genuinely emancipate people. Woodson approved of efforts by West Indians to include materials related to Black history and culture into their school curricula.

Woodson was ostracized by some of his contemporaries because of his insistence on defining a category of history related to ethnic culture and race. At the time, these educators felt that it was wrong to teach or understand African-American history as separate from more general American history. According to these educators, "Negroes" were simply Americans, darker skinned, but with no history apart from that of any other. Thus Woodson's efforts to get Black culture and history into the curricula of institutions, even historically Black colleges, were often unsuccessful.

Death and legacy

Woodson died suddenly from a heart attack in the office within his home in the Shaw, Washington, D.C. neighborhood on April 3, 1950, at the age of 74. He is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland.

The time that schools have set aside each year to focus on African-American history is Woodson's most visible legacy. His determination to further the recognition of the Negro in American and world history, however, inspired countless other scholars. Woodson remained focused on his work throughout his life. Many see him as a man of vision and understanding. Although Woodson was among the ranks of the educated few, he did not feel particularly sentimental about elite educational institutions. The Association and journal that he started are still operating, and both have earned intellectual respect.

Woodson's other far-reaching activities included the founding in 1920 of the Associated Publishers in Washington, D.C. This enabled publication of books concerning blacks that might not have been supported in the rest of the market. He founded Negro History Week in 1926 (now known as Black History Month). He created the Negro History Bulletin, developed for teachers in elementary and high school grades, and published continuously since 1937. Woodson also influenced the Association's direction and subsidizing of research in African-American history. He wrote numerous articles, monographs and books on Blacks. The Negro in Our History reached its 11th edition in 1966, when it had sold more than 90,000 copies.

Dorothy Porter Wesley recalled: "Woodson would wrap up his publications, take them to the post office and have dinner at the YMCA. He would teasingly decline her dinner invitations saying, 'No, you are trying to marry me off. I am married to my work'". Woodson's most cherished ambition, a six-volume Encyclopedia Africana, was incomplete at the time of his death.

Honors and tributes

In 1926, Woodson received the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Spingarn Medal.

The Carter G. Woodson Book Award was established in 1974 "for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States."

The U.S. Postal Service issued a 20-cent stamp honoring Woodson in 1984.

In 1992, the Library of Congress held an exhibition entitled Moving Back Barriers: The Legacy of Carter G. Woodson. Woodson had donated his collection of 5,000 items from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries to the Library.

His Washington, D.C. home has been preserved and designated the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Carter G. Woodson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

On February 1, 2018, he was honored with a Google Doodle.

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As we near the end of Black History Month, we honor alumnus Carter G. Woodson. Known as the father of black history, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB 1908, AM 1908, announced the creation of Negro History Week at the Wabash YMCA in Bronzeville in February 1926. Negro History Week was the forerunner of the nation’s annual commemoration of Black History Month, established in 1976. Woodson helped to transform how people think about black history, creating the peer-reviewed Journal of Negro History, establishing the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and starting the ASALH Press.

Text and image from the University of Chicago’s Breakthroughs page.

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Biography of Madam C.J. Walker, American Entrepreneur and Beauty Mogul

By Mary Bellis

Updated April 28, 2020

Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867–May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist who revolutionized the hair care and cosmetics industry for African American women in the early 20th century. By leveraging her beauty and hair care products company, Madam Walker was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire, while offering African American women a source of income and pride.

 Also known for her philanthropy and social activism, Madam Walker played a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1900s.

Fast Facts: Madam C.J. Walker

Known For: African American businesswoman and self-made millionaire in the cosmetics industry

Also Known As: Born Sarah Breedlove

Born: December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana

Parents: Minerva Anderson and Owen Breedlove

Died: May 25, 1919 in Irvington, New York

Education: Three months of formal grade school education

Spouses: Moses McWilliams, John Davis, Charles J. Walker

Children: Lelia McWilliams (later known as A'Lelia Walker, born 1885)

Notable Quote: “I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment to hundreds of women of my race.”

Early Life

Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, to Owen Breedlove and Minerva Anderson in a one room cabin on the former plantation owned by Robert W. Burney in rural Louisiana, near the town of Delta. The Burney plantation had been the site of the Battle of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, during the United States Civil War. While her parents and four older siblings were enslaved on the Burney plantation, Sarah was the first child of her family to be born into freedom after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

Sarah’s mother Minerva died in 1873, possibly of cholera, and her father remarried and then died in 1875. Sarah worked as a domestic servant and her older sister Louvenia survived by working in the cotton fields of Delta and Vicksburg, Mississippi. “I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life, having been left an orphan and being without mother or father since I was seven years of age,” Madam Walker recalled. Though she attended Sunday school literacy lessons at her church during her earlier years, she recounted that she had only three months of formal education.

In 1884 at the age of 14, Sarah married laborer Moses McWilliams, in part to escape her abusive brother-in-law, Jesse Powell, and she gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Lelia (later A'Lelia), on June 6, 1885. After the death of her husband in 1884, she traveled to St. Louis to join her four brothers, who had established themselves as barbers. Working as a laundry woman earning just $1.50 a day, she managed to save enough money to educate her daughter A'Lelia and became involved in activities with the National Association of Colored Women. In 1894, she met and married fellow laundry worker John H. Davis.

Madam Walker Builds Her Cosmetics Empire

During the 1890s, Sarah began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose some of her hair, a condition likely caused by the harshness of the available products and her profession as a laundry woman. Embarrassed by her appearance, she experimented with a variety of homemade remedies and products made by another Black entrepreneur named Annie Malone. Her marriage to John Davis ended in 1903, and in 1905, Sarah became a sales agent for Malone and moved to Denver, Colorado.

In 1906, Sarah married her third husband, newspaper advertising salesman Charles Joseph Walker. It was at this point that Sarah Breedlove changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker and began advertising herself as an independent hairdresser and retailer of cosmetic creams. She adopted the title “Madam” as an homage to women pioneers of the French beauty industry of the day.

Walker began selling her own hair product called Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula. To promote her products, she embarked on an exhausting sales drive throughout the South and Southeast, going door to door, giving demonstrations and working on sales and marketing strategies. In 1908, she opened Lelia College in Pittsburgh to train her "hair culturists."

Eventually, her products formed the basis of a thriving national corporation that at one point employed over 3,000 people. Her expanded product line was called the Walker System, which offered a broad variety of cosmetics and pioneered new ways of marketing. She licensed Walker Agents and Walker Schools that offered meaningful training, employment, and personal growth to thousands of African American women. By 1917 the company claimed to have trained nearly 20,000 women.

Although she did open some traditional storefront beauty shops, most of the Walker Agents ran their shops from their homes or sold products door to door, dressed in their characteristic uniforms of white shirts and black skirts. Walker’s aggressive marketing strategy combined with her relentless ambition led to her becoming the first known female African American woman self-made millionaire, meaning she neither inherited her fortune nor married into it. At the time of her death, Walker’s estate was worth an estimated $600,000 (about $8 million in 2019). After her death in 1919, Madam Walker’s name became even more widely known as the market for her haircare and cosmetics products spread beyond the United States to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Panama, and Costa Rica.

Constructed in 1916, for $250,000 (over $6 million today), Madam Walker’s mansion, Villa Lewaro, in Irvington, New York, was designed by Vertner Woodson Tandy, New York state’s first registered Black architect. Featuring 34 rooms in 20,000 square feet, with three terraces and a swimming pool, Villa Lewaro was as much Walker’s statement as it was her home.

Walker’s vision for Villa Lewaro was for the mansion to serve as a gathering place for community leaders that would prove to other Black Americans that they could achieve their dreams. Shortly after moving into the mansion in May 1918, Walker held an event honoring Emmett Jay Scott, then the Assistant Secretary for Negro Affairs of the U.S. Department of War.

In her 2001 biography “On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker," A'Lelia Bundles recalls that her great-great-grandmother had built Villa Lewaro as “a Negro institution that only Negro money bought” to “convince members of [my] race of the wealth of business possibilities within the race to point to young Negroes what a lone woman accomplished and to inspire them to do big things.”

Inspiring Black Business Women

Perhaps above and beyond her fame as a self-made millionaire, Madam Walker is remembered as one of the first advocates for the financial independence of Black women. After establishing her own thriving cosmetics business, she threw herself into teaching Black women how to build, budget, and market their own businesses.

In 1917, Walker borrowed from the structure of the National Association of Colored Women to begin organizing state and local support clubs for her sales agents. These clubs evolved to become the Madam C. J. Walker Beauty Culturists Union of America. The union’s first annual conference, which convened in Philadelphia during the summer of 1917, hosted 200 attendees and was one of the first national gatherings of American women entrepreneurs.

In delivering the convention’s keynote speech, Madam Walker, after calling America “the greatest country under the sun,” demanded justice for the deaths of some 100 Black people during the recent St. Louis race riots. Moved by her remarks, the delegation sent a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson asking for legislation to avoid "a recurrence of such disgraceful affairs."

"With that gesture, the association had become what perhaps no other currently existing group could claim," wrote A'Lelia Bundles. "American women entrepreneurs organized to use their money and their numbers to assert their political will."

Philanthropy and Activism: The Harlem Years

After she and Charles Walker divorced in 1913, Madam Walker traveled throughout Latin America and the Caribbean promoting her business and recruiting others to teach her hair care methods. While her mother traveled, A'Lelia Walker helped facilitate the purchase of property in Harlem, New York, recognizing that the area would be an important base for their future business operations.

After returning to the United States in 1916, Walker moved into her new Harlem townhouse and quickly immersed herself in the social and political culture of the Harlem Renaissance. She founded philanthropies that included educational scholarships and donations to homes for the elderly, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Conference on Lynching, among other organizations focused on improving the lives of African Americans. In 1913, Walker also donated the largest amount of money by an African American toward the construction of a YMCA serving Indianapolis’ Black community. She was also a major contributor to the scholarship funds of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black university located in Tuskegee, Alabama, founded by early Black community leaders Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington.

As her notoriety increased, Walker became vocal in expressing her social and political views. Speaking from the floor of the 1912 convention of the National Negro Business League, she famously declared, “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground."

Madam Walker appeared regularly at conventions sponsored by powerful Black institutions, delivering stirring lectures on political, economic, and social issues facing the African American community. As some of her closest friends and associates, Walker often consulted with prominent community organizers and activists Booker T. Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Philanthropy and Activism: The Harlem Years

After she and Charles Walker divorced in 1913, Madam Walker traveled throughout Latin America and the Caribbean promoting her business and recruiting others to teach her hair care methods. While her mother traveled, A'Lelia Walker helped facilitate the purchase of property in Harlem, New York, recognizing that the area would be an important base for their future business operations.

After returning to the United States in 1916, Walker moved into her new Harlem townhouse and quickly immersed herself in the social and political culture of the Harlem Renaissance. She founded philanthropies that included educational scholarships and donations to homes for the elderly, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Conference on Lynching, among other organizations focused on improving the lives of African Americans. In 1913, Walker also donated the largest amount of money by an African American toward the construction of a YMCA serving Indianapolis’ Black community. She was also a major contributor to the scholarship funds of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black university located in Tuskegee, Alabama, founded by early Black community leaders Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington.

As her notoriety increased, Walker became vocal in expressing her social and political views. Speaking from the floor of the 1912 convention of the National Negro Business League, she famously declared, “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground."

Madam Walker appeared regularly at conventions sponsored by powerful Black institutions, delivering stirring lectures on political, economic, and social issues facing the African American community. As some of her closest friends and associates, Walker often consulted with prominent community organizers and activists Booker T. Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune, and W.E.B. Du Bois

During World War I, Walker, as a leader of the Circle For Negro War Relief organized by Mary Mcleod Bethune, advocated for the establishment of a camp dedicated to the training of Black army officers. In 1917, she was appointed to the executive committee of the New York chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded by Mary White Ovington. The same year, she helped organize the NAACP Silent Protest Parade on New York City's Fifth Avenue, which drew some 10,000 people to protest a riot in East St. Louis in which at least 40 African Americans had been killed, several hundred injured, and thousands displaced from their homes.

As the profits from her business grew, so did Walker's contributions to political and philanthropic causes. In 1918, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs honored her as the largest individual contributor to the preservation of the historic house of abolitionist, activist, and women’s rights advocate Frederick Douglass in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Just months before her death in 1919, Walker donated $5,000 (nearly $73,000 in 2019) to the NAACP's anti-lynching fund—the largest amount ever donated to the NAACP by an individual at the time. In her will, she bequeathed nearly $100,000 to orphanages, institutions, and individuals, and specified that two-thirds of future net profits from her estate be donated to charity.

Death and Legacy

Madam C.J. Walker died at age 51 of kidney failure and complications of hypertension at her Villa Lewaro mansion in Irvington, New York, on May 25, 1919. After her funeral at Villa Lewaro, she was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, New York.

Considered the wealthiest African American woman in the country at the time of her death, Walker's obituary in The New York Times stated, “She said herself two years ago that she was not yet a millionaire, but hoped to be some time, not that she wanted the money for herself, but for the good she could do with it. She spent $10,000 every year for the education of young negro men and women in Southern colleges and sent six youths to Tuskegee Institute every year.”

Walker left one-third of her estate to her daughter, A'Lelia Walker, who along with becoming president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, continued her mother’s role as a vital part of the Harlem Renaissance. The balance of her estate was bequeathed to various charities.

Madam Walker’s business provided access for generations of women to, in her words, “abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.” In downtown Indianapolis, the Madam Walker Legacy Center—built in 1927 as the Walker Theatre—stands as a tribute to her determination and contributions. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, Walker Theatre Center housed the company's offices and factory as well as a theater, beauty school, hair salon and barbershop, restaurant, drugstore, and a ballroom for the use of the community.

In 2013, Indianapolis-based skincare and haircare company Sundial Brands purchased Madam C.J. Walker Enterprises for the purpose of bringing Walker’s iconic products back to store shelves. On March 4, 2016, more than a century after her “Wonderful Hair Grower” made Madam C.J. Walker a self-made millionaire, Sundial collaborated with Sephora of Paris to begin selling “Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture,” a collection of all-natural gels, oils, cremes, shampoos, and conditioners for different types of hair.

Sources and Further Reference

Bundles, A'Lelia. “Madam C.J. Walker, 1867—1919.” Madame C. J. Walker, http://www.madamcjwalker.com/bios/madam-c-j-walker/.

Bundles, A'Lelia (2001). “On Her Own Ground.” Scribner; Reprint edition, May 25, 2001.\

Glazer, Jessica. “Madam C.J. Walker: America's First Female Self-Made Millionaire.” Catalyst by Convene, https://convene.com/catalyst/madam-c-j-walker-americas-first-female-self-made-millionaire/.

Racha Penrice, Ronda. “Madam C.J. Walker's legacy of empowering black women lives on 100 years after her death.” NBC News, March 31, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/madam-c-j-walker-s-legacy-empowering-black-women-lives-n988451.

Riquier, Andrea. “Madam Walker Went From Laundress To Millionairess.” Investor’s Business Daily, Feb. 24, 2015, https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/madam-walker-built-hair-care-empire-rose-from-washerwoman/.

Anthony, Cara. “A legacy reborn: Madam C.J. Walker hair products are back.” The Indianapolis Star/USA Today, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/10/02/legacy-reborn-madam-cj-walker-hair-products-back/91433826

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OPINION: This history of someone very, very long ago that was a very successful Black American Women that made a difference in a time that would be very hard or difficult for those today to imagine.  

The purpose of sharing this History is to educate those that just don’t realize how many Black Americans bet the odds at a that you would not have expected.

History is a wonderful thing so lets not destroy any history in our country good or bad because it teaches us life of the past that makes us so grateful of what we have accomplished as a country/nation.

In other words in destroy ‘statuses’ are ignorant and respects a ‘MOD’ mentality.  Don’t allow the ‘mod’ to rule.  Denounced them quickly  before they destroy our history good or bad.  If not, the bad will repeated its self. 

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Fate of downtown church building still in limbo after Plan Commission rejects YMCA rezoning request

The Wausau Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a request from the YMCA to demolish a former church building on Franklin Street for a parking lot, but the fate of the building lies with the City Council.

Damakant Jayshi The Wausau Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a request from the Woodson YMCA to demolish a former church building on Franklin Street for a parking lot dedicated to its senior activity center, The Landing, but the fate of the building lies with the City Council. City staff recommended the Plan Commission reject amending the zoning code to allow the YMCA to raze the former…

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James E. Stamps (March 6, 1890 - October 30, 1972) was one of five pivotal founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Born in Marlin, Texas to Perry A. Stamps and Mabel Myers, both born enslaved. He had two brothers and one sister. He received an AB in economics from Fisk University and an AM in Economics from Yale University.

He worked as an accountant for Anthony Overton, an African American businessman who had moved his company from Kansas City to Chicago. In 1915, he was in DC, for a conference, and Carter G. Woodson invited him to speak to a gathering of African American history enthusiasts about the plight of African Americans and the importance of preserving their history, culture, and traditions. Three other men were in attendance, William B. Hargrove, George Cleveland Hall, and A. L. Jackson.

Woodson, Hargrove, Hall, Jackson, and he met in Chicago on September 9, 1915, and founded the ASALH. The Association’s goal was to address the situation facing African American people in the US and to document African American achievement. Woodson asked him to work on the first publication of The Journal of Negro History on January 1, 1916, which was and still is the official publication of the ASALH. He was assigned to spearhead the publication The Half-Century, the companion to The Journal of Negro History. While the Journal told the history of African Americans, the Half-Century focused on contemporary political and racial concerns. In 1917, the Association hosted its first biennial convention, bringing together from across the US African Americans who promoted African American history.

He married Georgia Morrow (1916-1920). They had two children. He married Maurice Williams.

He managed the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, worked as Secretary for the Black YMCA in Chicago, and continued his activities with the ASALH. On March 26, 1931, he was visible and vocal at the YMCA’s World Conference against Racism and Segregation. In 1940, he retired as the Vice President of Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan. A member of Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternities. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi #sigmapiphi

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PBP Radio Episode 109

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Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1915, Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week"; it was the precursor of Black History Month.

Background

Carter G. Woodson was born in Buckingham County, Virginia on December 19, 1875, the son of former slaves, James and Eliza Riddle Woodson. His father helped Union soldiers during the Civil War and moved his family to West Virginia when he heard that Huntington was building a high school for blacks.

Coming from a large, poor family, Carter Woodson could not regularly attend school. Through self-instruction, Woodson mastered the fundamentals of common school subjects by age 17. Wanting more education, Carter went to Fayette County to earn a living as a miner in the coal fields. He was able to devote only a few months each year to his schooling.

In 1895, at the age of 20, Woodson entered Douglass High School, where he received his diploma in less than two years. From 1897 to 1900, Woodson taught at Winona in Fayette County. In 1900 he was selected as the principal of Douglass High School. He earned his Bachelor of Literature degree from Berea College in Kentucky in 1903 by taking classes part-time between 1901 and 1903.

Career in education

From 1903 to 1907, Woodson was a school supervisor in the Philippines. Later, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was awarded an A.B. and A.M. in 1908. He was a member of the first black professional fraternity Sigma Pi Phi and a member of Omega Psi Phi. He completed his PhD in history at Harvard University in 1912, where he was the second African American (after W.E.B. Du Bois) to earn a doctorate. His doctoral dissertation, The Disruption of Virginia, was based on research he did at the Library of Congress while teaching high school in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctoral degree, he continued teaching in public schools, later joining the faculty at Howard University as a professor, where he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Convinced that the role of African American history and the history of other cultures was being ignored or misrepresented among scholars, Woodson saw a need for research into the neglected past of African Americans. Along with Alexander L. Jackson, Woodson published The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 in 1915.

Carter G. Woodson stayed at the Wabash Avenue YMCA during visits to Chicago. Dr. Woodson's experiences at the Y and in the surrounding Bronzeville neighborhood inspired him to create the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History), which ran conferences, published The Journal of Negro History, and "particularly targeted those responsible for the education of black children". Another inspiration was John Wesley Cromwell's 1914 book, The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent.

Woodson believed that education and increasing social and professional contacts among blacks and whites could reduce racism and he promoted the organized study of African-American history partly for that purpose. Woodson would later promote the first Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in 1926, forerunner of Black History Month. The Bronzeville neighborhood declined during the late 1960s and 1970s like many other inner city neighborhoods across the country, and the Wabash Avenue YMCA was forced to close during the 1970s, until being restored in 1992 by The Renaissance Collaborative.

He served as Academic Dean of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, now West Virginia State University, from 1920 to 1922.

In addition to his first book, he wrote A Century of Negro Migration, which continues to be published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He studied many aspects of African-American history. For instance, in 1924, he published the first survey of free black slaveowners in the United States in 1930.

He once wrote: “If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have to worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.”

NAACP

Woodson became affiliated with the Washington, D.C. branch of the NAACP, and its chairman Archibald Grimké. On January 28, 1915, he wrote a letter to Grimké expressing his dissatisfaction with activities. Woodson made two proposals:

That the branch secure an office for a center to which persons may report whatever concerns the black race may have, and from which the Association may extend its operations into every part of the city; and

That a canvasser be appointed to enlist members and obtain subscriptions for The Crisis, the NAACP magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois.

W. E. B. Du Bois added the proposal to divert "patronage from business establishments which do not treat races alike," that is, boycott businesses. Woodson wrote that he would cooperate as one of the twenty-five effective canvassers, adding that he would pay the office rent for one month. Grimke did not welcome Woodson's ideas.

Responding to Grimke's comments about his proposals, on March 18, 1915, Woodson wrote:

"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."

His difference of opinion with Grimké, who wanted a more conservative course, contributed to Woodson's ending his affiliation with the NAACP.

Black History Month

Woodson devoted the rest of his life to historical research. He worked to preserve the history of African Americans and accumulated a collection of thousands of artifacts and publications. He noted that African-American contributions "were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them." Race prejudice, he concluded, "is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind."

In 1926, Woodson pioneered the celebration of "Negro History Week", designated for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The week of recognition became accepted and has been extended as the full month of February, now known as Black History Month.

Colleagues

Woodson believed in self-reliance and racial respect, values he shared with Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican activist who worked in New York. Woodson became a regular columnist for Garvey's weekly Negro World.

Woodson's political activism placed him at the center of a circle of many black intellectuals and activists from the 1920s to the 1940s. He corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois, John E. Bruce, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hubert H. Harrison, and T. Thomas Fortune among others. Even with the extended duties of the Association, Woodson made time to write academic works such as The History of the Negro Church (1922), The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), and others which continue to have wide readership.

Woodson did not shy away from controversial subjects, and used the pages of Black World to contribute to debates. One issue related to West Indian/African-American relations. Woodson summarized that "the West Indian Negro is free." He observed that West Indian societies had been more successful at properly dedicating the necessary amounts of time and resources needed to educate and genuinely emancipate people. Woodson approved of efforts by West Indians to include materials related to Black history and culture into their school curricula.

Woodson was ostracized by some of his contemporaries because of his insistence on defining a category of history related to ethnic culture and race. At the time, these educators felt that it was wrong to teach or understand African-American history as separate from more general American history. According to these educators, "Negroes" were simply Americans, darker skinned, but with no history apart from that of any other. Thus Woodson's efforts to get Black culture and history into the curricula of institutions, even historically Black colleges, were often unsuccessful. Today African-American studies have become specialized fields of study in history, music, culture, literature and other areas; in addition, there is more emphasis on African-American contributions to general American culture. The United States government celebrates Black History Month.

Woodson's legacy

Carter G. Woodson died suddenly from a heart attack in the office within his home in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC on April 3, 1950, at the age of 74. He is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland.

That schools have set aside a time each year to focus on African-American history is Woodson's most visible legacy. His determination to further the recognition of the Negro in American and world history, however, inspired countless other scholars. Woodson remained focused on his work throughout his life. Many see him as a man of vision and understanding. Although Woodson was among the ranks of the educated few, he did not feel particularly sentimental about elite educational institutions. The Association and journal that he started in 1915 continue, and both have earned intellectual respect.

Woodson's other far-reaching activities included the founding in 1920 of the Associated Publishers, the oldest African-American publishing company in the United States. This enabled publication of books concerning blacks that might not have been supported in the rest of the market. He founded Negro History Week in 1926 (now known as Black History Month). He created the Negro History Bulletin, developed for teachers in elementary and high school grades, and published continuously since 1937. Woodson also influenced the Association's direction and subsidizing of research in African-American history. He wrote numerous articles, monographs and books on Blacks. The Negro in Our History reached its eleventh edition in 1966, when it had sold more than 90,000 copies.

Dorothy Porter Wesley stated that "Woodson would wrap up his publications, take them to the post office and have dinner at the YMCA." He would teasingly decline her dinner invitations saying, "No, you are trying to marry me off. I am married to my work". Woodson's most cherished ambition, a six-volume Encyclopedia Africana, lay incomplete at the time of his death.

Honors and tributes

In 1926, Woodson received the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Spingarn Medal.

The Carter G. Woodson Book Award was established in 1974 "for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States."

The U.S. Postal Service issued a 20 cent stamp honoring Woodson in 1984.

In 1992, the Library of Congress held an exhibition entitled "Moving Back Barriers: The Legacy of Carter G. Woodson". Woodson had donated his collection of 5,000 items from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries to the Library.

His Washington, D.C. home has been preserved and designated the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Carter G. Woodson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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Origins of Black History Month

Welcome to February everyone, and welcome to Black History Month! I have been looking forward to it since last year — So to kick off the month I thought I would do a quick history of how Black History Month came to be.

The celebration and education of Black History Month started its life in the early 20th century as the brainchild of Harvard graduate Carter G. Woodson. While taking part in the 1915 exhibition of Black progress in the 50 years since the Emancipation, he was inspired to push the further education of Black history. On September 9th of that year the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) was formed by Woodson along with A.L. Jackson, George Cleveland Hall and James E. Stamps, in a meeting at the Wabash YMCA.

By the early 1920s Woodson was encouraging the promotion of the newly uncovered achievements within Black communities. At his urging, Woodson’s old fraternity (Omega Psi Phi) created the Negro History and Literature Week in 1924 — later renames Negro Achievement Week.

By 1945 Woodson was looking to expand the reach of the education programs — in February 1926 he produced a press release announcing the creation of Negro History Week. The celebration of Black history would be observed in the second week of February. This date was chosen for its existing significance within Black communities — it coincides with the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass (14th) and Abraham Lincoln (12th).

The response was overwhelming. With the cooperation of the Departments of Education in North Carolina, Delaware, and West Virginia, and city school administrations in Baltimore and Washington DC, Negro History Week was featured in many schools and in public across the country. It was published in the 1929 Journal of Negro History that the event had been made known to teachers in "every state with considerable Negro population" with the exception of only two, and official literature associated with the event had been distributed by officials from those States’ Departments of Educations. Churches also played a significant role int the distribution of these materials.

With the growth of the so-called “New Negro” — the Post War generation who characterised the Harlem Renaissance, and who were an expanding middle-class with buying power to consume Black literature and culture — this perspective of history was embraced by many in these communities. Black history clubs were formed, and teachers were demanding material for their classrooms — resulting in themed study materials being produced, including lessons for teachers, historical plays, and posters of important events and figures. And it flowed out of Black communities, with progressive Whites in cities like Syracuse getting behind the efforts to spread Black achievement and history. Some progressive high schools formed Negro History Clubs. ASNLH branches were opened across the country and in 1937 the Negro History Bulletin was established to focus on the annual theme.

In the 1940s efforts were made by the Black community to slowly expand the study of Black history in schools and other public settings. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s further propelled this drive for education.

The progression from Negro History Week to Black History Month began as early as the 1940s, with West Virginia’s celebration of February as Negro History Month. By the late 1960s the shift to a month long celebration and the adoption of the current title of Black History Month had begun really taking hold. In 1976 the informal expansion of the week-long celebration to a month-long one was officially recognised by the US government.

It is interesting to consider whether Steve and Bucky’s school would have featured Negro History Week content, or not. Timing-wise, it could go either way. Depending on how progressive their school was they may have had the materials taught in the later years of their education in the late 1920s. Or they may have missed out by a handful of years depending on when they left school. Regardless, it was quite likely in the public consciousness and would have been something they were aware of, even just in passing.

For more information on the history of Negro History Week / Black History Month, check out the References for my source material, or have a look through my Research Notes for the topic on the blog’s Google Drive folder.

Carter G. Woodson | Source 20th Anniversary of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1935 | Source Letter to Thomas Barnes | Source

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Zephyrhills Students of the Month for January 2020

Ten students from across the community were honored as the Greater Zephyrhills Students of the Month at a ceremony held at The Church at Chancey Road on January 15, 2020. Students honored by the Zephyrhills Chamber’s Citizen of the Month program are chosen by the teachers and administration from their individual schools for exemplary effort, achievement and contribution to their school, family, and community The Zephyrhills Chamber has recognized students with this program each month of the school year for 21 years.

Zephyrhills Students of the Month for January 2020

The students receiving honors for January 2020 were: The Academy of Spectrum Diversity – Darla Cant, The Broach School – Jaxon Lindsey-De’Ath, Chester W. Taylor Elementary School –  Austin Walters,  East Pasco Adventist Academy – Richelle Barriffe,  Heritage Academy – Caleb Jackson, Raymond B. Stewart Middle School –  Savanna Best, West Zephyrhills Elementary School –  Bellamy Miricle, Woodland Elementary School – Audney Lapoint, Zephyrhills Christian Academy – Jocelyn Knowell, Zephyrhills High School -  Woodson Stuckey. Students and their families are treated to breakfast. The students are awarded various gifts and recognition from businesses who sponsor or support the program. During the ceremony, the students are brought on stage individually for a brief interview and parents and teachers are invited to give words of encouragement for the student. Zephyrhills Student of the Month sponsors Sponsors and supporters of this year’s program are as follows: Advent Health Zephyrhills as the Medallion Sponsor, The Church at Chancey Road as the Venue and Breakfast Sponsor, the City of Zephyrhills, IR Staffing, San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, Staples of Zephyrhills and Suncoast Credit Union as the Gold Sponsors. The Zephyrhills Student of the Month event is supported by U.S. Congressman, Gus Bilirakis; Florida House of Representatives – District 38, Randy Maggard;  Pasco County Clerk of Court, Nikki Alvarez; Zephyrhills Mayor, Gene Whitfield; Pasco County Sheriff, Chris Nocco; Bahr’s Propane Gas & AC; Centennial Bank; CenterState Bank;  Culver’s of Zephyrhills; East Pasco YMCA; Faithful Friends Pet Cremation; Jarrett Ford of Dade City; Pin Chasers Zephyrhills; Pioneer Florida Museum & Village; Railroad Industrial Federal Credit Union;  Sonny’s Bar-B-Q; The Zephyrhills/Wesley Chapel Ministerial Association and Zephyrhills and Cinema 10. Read the full article

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RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First lady of North Carolina Kristin Cooper joined United Health

Foundation and Whole Kids Foundation today to award 22 grants totaling

$44,000 to schools and YMCAs statewide.

Each organization will receive a $2,000 grant to build or expand an

existing vegetable garden and provide educational resources about

agriculture, caring for the environment and maintaining healthy

lifestyles. The grants stem from an initiative by United Health

Foundation and Whole Kids Foundation to address hunger and support

nutrition education.

Grant recipients include:

      — Gouge Elementary School, Bakersville

— Socrates Academy, Matthews

— Bunn Elementary School, Bunn

— North Duplin Jr. Sr. High School, Mt. Olive

— Blessed Sacrament School, Burlington

— Perry W. Harrison Elementary, Pittsboro

— Culbreth Middle School, Chapel Hill

— St. Timothy’s School, Raleigh

— Garinger High School, Charlotte

— Lead Mine Elementary School, Raleigh

— Langdon C. Kerr Elementary, Clinton

— Harris Creek Elementary, Raleigh

— Conover School, Conover

— Hunter Elementary School, Raleigh

— Reaching All Minds Academy, Durham

— Long Mill Elementary, Youngsville

— James B. Dudley High School, Greensboro

— YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain

— Third Street Education Center, Greenville

— YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, Statesville

— Woodson Branch Nature School, Marshall

— YMCA Camp Harrison, Boomer

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