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Alfred L. Cralle (September 4, 1866 – 1920)

Alfred L. Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor who was best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American, Civil War. He attended local schools and worked for his father in the carpentry trade as a young man. During that period, he also became interested in mechanics.  Cralle was sent to Washington D.C. where he attended Wayland Seminary, a branch of the National Theological Institute, one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society immediately after the Civil War to help educate newly freed African Americans. After attending the school for a few years, Cralle moved to Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, where he worked as a porter at a drugstore and at a hotel. While working at the hotel, he developed the idea of the ice cream scoop.  It came to him when he noticed ice cream servers having difficulty trying to ge...

Victor Moore (born August 23, 1943)

Victor holds a  10th Degree   Black Belt  in  Karate   and was one of the late  Robert Trias ' Chief instructors of the  Shuri-ryÅ«   Karate  system. Moore was one of the first ten original members of the  Trias International Society  and also studied and trained with  William J. Dometrich  in the style of  Chito-ryu . Moore has studied martial arts for over 50 years, and is a four-time world karate champion.    Moore began to travel with a handful of his students to several tournaments as far away as Canada. He later ventured out opening karate schools throughout the Cincinnati area and began traveling the Midwest and East Coast. Being successful in competition, he meets the father of  American Karate  Robert A. Trias.  Robert Trias  with his skills and ability took Moore under his wings. He continued to train with Trias at various tournaments and seminar...

The Words of A Master Teacher

Taj Terik Bey What so-called "black", "negro", "colored", "African-American" (Moors) have not been taught is that they are native, indigenous and aboriginal to the Americas. That fact is not speculation. Forget what you have "heard" or been "taught" by European/Christian-based books, in public/private (catholic/protestant) schools and "churches". Researchers and scientists, both Moorish AND European, have verified documents, artifacts and antiquities that unquestionably prove that Moors originally inhabited the continent of the Americas. Moors, did not first arrive to the Americas on slave boats. They (your ancestors) were already here. (Ask any "Mason" who Hiram Abiff is and what it means, and see what he does or says - if anything.) Cristos Columbo (Christopher Columbus) did NOT "discover America". As a matter of fact, Columbus never made it past Barbados and never even saw the land that ...

Azie Taylor Morton

Azie Taylor Morton  was the first and only African-American to hold the position of Treasurer of the United States. Despite hardships, Ms. Morton excelled by entering one of the highest offices in the land. Born February 1, 1936 in Dale, Texas. Morton worked in the cotton fields as a teen. Because Dale didn’t have any public schools for Black children, she attended the Texas Blind, Deaf, and Orphan School although she suffered none of those issues. In 1952, she entered an all-Black school, Huston-Tillotson University, graduating with a degree in commercial education. Morton tried to enroll in the University of Texas’ graduate program but was denied because of her race. Taylor began teaching at a Texas school for delinquent girls, and later began working for Huston-Tillotson. In 1961, she was hired by President John F. Kennedy to work for the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and she worked there for several years. In 1965, she married James Homer Morton. Between ...

John S. Rock

John S. Rock was born to free black parents in Salem, New Jersey in 1825. He attended public schools in New Jersey until he was 19 and then worked as a teacher between 1844 and 1848.  During this period Rock began his medical studies with two white doctors. Although he was initially denied entry, Rock was finally accepted into the American Medical College in Philadelphia.  He graduated in 1852 with a medical degree. While in medical school Rock practiced dentistry and taught classes at a night school for African Americans.  In 1851 he received a silver medal for the creation of an improved variety of artificial teeth and another for a prize essay on temperance.    At the age of 27, Rock, a teacher, doctor and dentist, moved to Boston in 1852 to open a medical and dental office. He was commissioned by the Vigilance Committee, an organization of abolitionists, to treat fugitive slaves’ medical needs. During this period Dr. Rock increasingly identified with t...