Baby “Reading”
“Do I love him enough to make any sacrifice? Yes. Can I give him up and not miss him? No.” - Coretta Scott King
![On April 25, 1864 — 15 months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 — Annie Davis, a slave, sent this letter to the White House:
Belair [Md.] Aug 25th 1864
Mr president It is my Desire to be free. To go to see my people on the eastern shore. My mistress wont let me. You will please let me know if we are free. And what i can do. I write to you for advice. Please send me word this week. Or as soon as possible and oblidge.
Annie Davis](http://25.media.tumblr.com/c079e5272eca63f3d4ba100ce1620b17/tumblr_mfz2tmCBph1qjkeqso1_500.jpg)
On April 25, 1864 — 15 months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 — Annie Davis, a slave, sent this letter to the White House:
Belair [Md.] Aug 25th 1864
Mr president It is my Desire to be free. To go to see my people on the eastern shore. My mistress wont let me. You will please let me know if we are free. And what i can do. I write to you for advice. Please send me word this week. Or as soon as possible and oblidge.
Annie Davis
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Madam C. J.Walker died on this day at the age of 51 in 1919. Upon her death she was considered to be the wealthiest black woman in America and known to be the first African-American woman millionaire. Some sources cite her as the first self-made American woman millionaire. Her daughter Lelia succeeded her as president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
“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, National Negro Business League Convention, July 1912
![Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.]
[between 1941 and 1945]
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.]
[between 1941 and 1945]
Negro Romance Comics from 1950, written by Orrin C. Evans. Learn more about Orrin C. Evans here.
Pioneering surgeon, Augustus White in his apartment, 1969. White completed his pre-medical studies at Brown University in1957 and in 1961 was the first African American graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Receiving his Ph.D. degree in orthopedic biomechanics at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, he then worked as the first African American surgical resident at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. White also served in Vietnam as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, earning a Bronze Star.
Found at http://www.loc.gov/
Lenny Lyles conducts 12th grade civics class at Central High School in Louisville, Kentucky during 1962 off-season.
