Enlightened Free Thinking Nubian Kings And Queens

On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, 250,000 Americans united at the Lincoln Memorial for the final speech of the March on Washington. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the podium, he eventually pushed his notes aside. The night before the march, Dr. King began working on his speech with a small group of advisers in the lobby of the Willard Hotel. The original speech was more political and less historic, according to Clarence B. Jones, and it did not include any reference to dreams. After delivering the now famous line, “we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” Dr. King transformed his speech into a sermon. On stage near Dr. King, singer Mahalia Jackson reportedly kept saying, “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin,” and while no one will know if he heard her, it could likely have been the inspiration he needed. Dr. King then continued, “Even though we face the difficulties of today and  ...

Jack Johnson's was nicknamed the "Galveston Giant."   He was an American  boxer , who—at the height of the  Jim Crow era —became the first  African American   world heavyweight boxing champion  (1908–1915). Johnson was faced with much controversy when he was charged with violating the  Mann Act  in 1912, even though there was an obvious lack of evidence and the charge was largely racially biased. In a documentary about his life,  Ken Burns  notes that "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth". Johnson was born the third child of nine, and the first son, of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson, two former slaves who worked blue collar jobs as a janitor and a dishwasher to support their children and put them through school. His father Henry served as a civilian teamster of the Union’s 38th Colored Infantry, and was a role model for his son. As Jack once sai...

Valaida was born in  Chattanooga ,  Tennessee . Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello,  bass ,  banjo , violin, mandolin ,  harp ,  accordion ,  clarinet , trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time she was 15. She also sang and dance. After focusing on the trumpet, she quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was named "Little Louis" after  Louis Armstrong , who used to call her the world's second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the USA, Europe and China. From 1926 to 1929 she toured with Jack Carter's Serenaders in Shanghai, Singapore,  Calcutta  and  Jakarta . Her most successful period was in the 1930's when she became the toast of London and Paris. Around this time she recorded her hit song "High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm". She performed in the  Ethel Waters  show  Rhapsody in Black , in New York. I...

(1856 - 1940)  Born near Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper rose to prominence as the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. Despite being born into slavery to Festus, a shoemaker, and Isabella Flipper, Henry was reared in a family that emphasized excellence, and he and his younger brothers all became respected members of their communities.   Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon completing West Point, Flipper was transferred to the l0th U.S. Cavalry Regiment where he became the highest ranking and most famous of the Buffalo Soldiers (African Americans in all-black regiments) stationed at Western military installations.  Flipper's assignments included Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Elliott, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Quitman, all in Texas. Flipper earned distinction during the the Victorio Campaign which pitted the Apache leader Victorio against the U.S. Army in Texas and ...