{"id":336,"date":"2008-02-13T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:51:04","slug":"black-history-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/black-history-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The old negro spiritual Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen<\/em> was popularized by Harry T. Burleigh<\/a>. Both he and Roland Hayes<\/a> won Spingarn medals for preserving early African-American Music.<\/li>\n
  2. The Founding Fathers felt that the slave trade of the time was beyond their control so therefore slavery is not mentioned at all in the Declaration Of Independence.<\/li>\n
  3. The popular African-American wedding tradition of “jumping the broom” symbolizes sweeping away the old and welcoming the new.<\/li>\n
  4. In 1915, Robert R. Moton<\/a> succeeded Booker T. Washington<\/a> as the President of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  5. In 1930, Robert R. Moton was named Chairman Of The Commission on Inter-racial cooperation.<\/li>\n
  6. John H. Johnson<\/a> founded his own publishing company which publishes Ebony<\/em> and Jet<\/em> magazines.<\/li>\n
  7. In 1925, actor Paul Robeson<\/a> gained critical acclaim for his performance in the movie The Emperor Jones<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. The white abolitionist who led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1958 was John Brown<\/a>. He was hanged as a traitor but became a hero of the anti-slavery movement.<\/li>\n
  9. In the African language of Swahili, kemba<\/em> means faithful and halima<\/em> means gentle.<\/li>\n
  10. On December 1, 1935, Rosa Parks<\/a> refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. This led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and the end of segregation on Montgomery buses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The old negro spiritual Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen was popularized by Harry T. Burleigh. Both he and Roland Hayes won Spingarn medals for preserving early African-American Music. The Founding Fathers felt that the slave trade of the time was beyond their control so therefore slavery is not mentioned at all in the Declaration … Read moreBlack History Day 13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}