
… of 1926, in which he chose that month due to the births of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He acknowledged Lincoln for at least signing the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and he naturally believed that Frederick Douglass was an example of resiliency, strength, a…
…in the American Revolution; it came with little notoriety, and almost a decade after the war ended, Blacks were even written into the Constitution as 3/5th of a human being, equal to a field animal. It wasn’t until December 6th, 1865 following the American Civil War that the slaves gained their in…
…f Noah’s grandchildren) had later moved to Africa and that all black Africans were his descendants. For that reason, they argued, the Bible justified the keeping of black slaves by white people. Consequently, once these Blacks were taken from Africa and arriving in the colonies, they were forb…