Distinguished African Americans

[Whitey44]

Dr. Charles Drew (1904-1950):

Dr. Drew perfected the techniques for seperating and preserving blood. His techniques helped save thousands of American and Allied soldier's lives during WWII. Active in the war himself, Dr. Drew was a surgical consultant for the US Army and also worked with American Red Cross. He also developed a method for se[erating plasma from blood. At the time of his death in 1950, he was honored for outstanding achievements in the field of blood research. Doctors today continue to utilize the the blood plasma presevation techniques created by Dr. Drew.

[bousch]

Did Charles Drew "discover" (in about 1940) that plasma could be separated and stored apart from the rest of the blood, thereby revolutionizing transfusion medicine? No! The possibility of using blood plasma for transfusion purposes was known at least since 1918, when English physician Gordon R. Ward suggested it in a medical journal. In the mid-1930s, John Elliott advanced the idea, emphasizing plasma's advantages in shelf life and donor-recipient compatibility, and in 1939 he and two colleagues reported having used stored plasma in 191 transfusions. (See historical notes on plasma use.) Charles Drew was not responsible for any breakthrough scientific or medical discovery; his main career achievement lay in supervising or co-supervising major programs for the collection and shipment of blood and plasma.

[deidre79]

Maya Angelou

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."

[Whitey44]

Sorry, I can't read your anti-black BS, Mr. Bousch. I put you on ignore.

[deidre79]

Josephine Baker

[Whitey44]

My wife went to see Maya Angelou speak at her college and was very moved by her talk.

Josephine Baker was smart to move to France where people gave her a chance to have a career in spite of her race.

Thanks Deidre!

[deidre79]

Lorraine Hansberry Maya is a very powerful speaker

[Whitey44]

James Armistead:

American spy : in 1781, Armistead, a slave, was a valuable intelligence agent during the American Revolution, assisting Lafayette by gathering information concerning British forces Portsmouth, Virginia. For his work, Armistead was emancipated by an act of the Virginia Legislature in 1786.

[deidre79]

Wilma Rudolph

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Whitey44

James Armistead:

American spy : in 1781, Armistead, a slave, was a valuable intelligence agent during the American Revolution, assisting Lafayette by gathering information concerning British forces Portsmouth, Virginia. For his work, Armistead was emancipated by an act of the Virginia Legislature in 1786.

i am a direct descendant of Lafayette interesting

[Whitey44]

Originally Posted by deidre79

Lorraine Hansberry Maya is a very powerful speaker

She wrote the play "A Raisin in the Sun". I saw the movie a long time ago about a black family that moved to the suburbs of Chicago.

Thanks again.

[Incubus]

Originally Posted by bousch

i am a direct descendant of Lafayette interesting

and infested with irony

[deidre79]

Harriet Tubman

[Whitey44]

General Collin Powell

[deidre79]

Althea Gibson tennis player

[Crosswalker]

Lead vocalist of Sevendust:

[deidre79]

Jimi Hendrix rock god

[bousch]

Originally Posted by deidre79

Jimi Hendrix rock god

hippie drug addict who died of a massive over dose...do you have any more black hero's?

[Crosswalker]

Originally Posted by deidre79

Jimi Hendrix rock god

A-fuckin'-greed:

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Whitey44

General Collin Powell

he lied about weapons of mass destruction and should be held to account for war crimes war profiting and crimes against humanity

see the video here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKoSDazgf4

[deidre79]

Originally Posted by bousch

hippie drug addict who died of a massive over dose...do you have any more black hero's?

Sure, how about Robert Johnson, the godfather of blues and rock n roll. We all bleed red bousch.

[c&c]

Condelezza Rice.

[deidre79]

Jim Brown and Walter Payton

[deidre79]

Gale Sayers and Mercury Morris

[Rockprincess]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[Crosswalker]

Originally Posted by Rockprincess

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[bousch]

Originally Posted by c&c

Condelezza Rice.

an other war criminal who will soon enough have to answer the the people for her crimes

[deidre79]

Harriet Beecher Stowe

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Rockprincess

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Beast as Saint:
The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn't really "Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.
On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots.

From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King's associate, advisor, and personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New York City College. Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23, 1953 the "Los Angeles Times" reported his conviction and sentencing to jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King's famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, "The Worker,- - openly declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King's employ as secretary in 1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1963.

Bayard Rustin's replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King was Jack O'Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. According to official records, in 1962 Jack O'Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a Communist Party member as early as 1956. O'Dell was also given the job of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat - -of October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps, and word of O'Dell's party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O'Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare, "immediately hired him again- - as director of the New York office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the "Richmond News-Leader - -of September 27, 1963. In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King's 1963 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King's movement. Mr. Williams was also around this time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regular broadcasts to the southern US, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havana under the title "Radio Free Dixie." In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacks by Blacks against White Americans.

During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled "Negroes With Guns." The writer of the foreword for this book? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr. It is also interesting to note that the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters of the infamous Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

According to King's biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, "King privately described himself as a Marxist." In his 1981 book, "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, "...we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution.... The whole structure of American life must be changed.... We are engaged in the class struggle."

Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King's behind-the-scenes "handler." Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secret funnelling of Soviet funds to the Communist Party, USA, was King's mentor and was actually the brains behind many of King's more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King's book, "Stride Toward Freedom." It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King's income tax returns! It was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activities of the SCLC. Levison wrote many of King's speeches. King described Levison as one of his "closest friends."

FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison's Communist activities. It was Levison's close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King.

Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media's lie about "racists" in the FBI being out to "get" King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI's probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially "I was one hundred per cent for King...because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights." The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King's Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the "civil rights" movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King's speaking and organizing tours.

In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the "occupants - -of those rooms. That "according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold "would be "close to blasphemy." The reason? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau hadáseen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate.

Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King's supposedly "non-violent" marches, Sullivan's probe revealed a very different King from the carefully crafted public image. King welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC, many of them advocates and practitioners of violence. King's only admonition on the subject was that they should embrace "tactical nonviolence."

Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltrator actually working for the FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King's Communist connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusive information from FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services. But were the American people informed of King's real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fix was in "the controlled media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push their racial mixing program on America. King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way. With a few minor exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-King propaganda machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has been made to add some of King's writings as a new book in the Bible.

Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater than to prove to you the immorality and subversion of this man called King. I want you to start to think for yourselves. I want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind the controlled media's active promotion of King? What does it tell you about our politicians when you see them, almost without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a national hero? What does it tell you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper and Communist functionary is considered grounds for dismissal? What does it tell you about the controlled media when you see how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie? You need to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up.


Sources:
1. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change).

2. "King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87) David J. Garrow
3. New York Times" of October 11, 1991, page 15.
4. "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", David J. Garrow, (1981).

5. "And the walls came tumbling down," Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)

[Rockprincess]

Rosa Parks

[stumbler]

Thurgood Marshall, Supreme court Justice

George Washington Carver, Inventor and teacher

Malcolm X, Black activist (At one time the only man in America believed to be able to stop a race riot or start one).

Martin Luther King (Did as much or more for rights of all Americans not just blacks).

Alex Haley Author of the auto biography of Malcolm X and Roots.

But will always be most remembered by me for an interview he did of a white supremacists for Playboy magazine. At the start of the interview the White Supremacists asked him: "Are you sure you want to conduct this interview. After all we call your race nigger."

Haley responded "Well yes. And so I have been called many times in my life. But this is the first time I'm being paid for it so you just go right ahead."

[Rockprincess]

Jackie Robinson

[stumbler]

This cracks me up. We have Fail accusing Colin Powell and Condi Rice of war crimes but not George Bush and Dick Cheney. Classic there Fail.

[bousch]

Originally Posted by stumbler

This cracks me up. We have Fail accusing Colin Powell and Condi Rice of war crimes but not George Bush and Dick Cheney. Classic there Fail.

i think people can sort the stupidity of stumblers reply umm this is black heros stupid....

[Rockprincess]

Originally Posted by bousch

i think people can sort the stupidity of stumblers reply umm this is black heros stupid....

No, it's not!!! The title says "Distinguished African Americans."

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Rockprincess

No, it's not!!! The title says "Distinguished African Americans."

the difference?

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by Rockprincess

No, it's not!!! The title says "Distinguished African Americans."

Tell you what RP, I can ignore the weak minded Fail if you can.

[Whitey44]

Originally Posted by deidre79

Jimi Hendrix rock god

Jimi cut his teeth on the Nashville Chitlin Circuit. I know an old black keyboard player that used to play in a band with him before Jimi left for England. The keyboard player couldn't go to England with him because he was in the USAF at the time. He told me that everyone in the band got along well. Most bands usually have allot of fussing, but Jimi's didn't. Jim created his own unique style of guitar playing.

[Distant Lover]

Originally Posted by bousch

The Beast as Saint:
The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn't really "Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

The American Communist Party did not control the civil rights movement. It did
contribute to it. That does not say bad things about the civil rights movement. It
says good things about the American Communist Party.

I have known a number of members of the American Communist Party. I liked
them. They were intelligent, well informed, and civil.

Once I took a seminar on Das Kapital given by the American Communist
Party. It was really fascinating.

[bousch]

Originally Posted by stumbler

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver
"Discovered" hundreds of new and important uses for the peanut? Fathered the peanut industry? Revolutionized southern US agriculture? No! Research by Barry Mackintosh, who served as bureau historian for the National Park Service (which manages the G.W. Carver National Monument), demonstrated the following:

• Most of Carver's peanut and sweet potato creations were either unoriginal, impractical, or of uncertain effectiveness. No product born in his laboratory was widely adopted.
• The boom years for Southern peanut production came prior to, and not as a result of, Carver's promotion of the crop.
• Carver's work to improve regional farming practices was not of pioneering scientific importance and had little demonstrable impact.

To see how Carver gained "a popular reputation far transcending the significance of his accomplishments," read Mackintosh's excellent article George Washington Carver: The Making of a Myth.

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Distant Lover

The American Communist Party did not control the civil rights movement. It did
contribute to it. That does not say bad things about the civil rights movement. It
says good things about the American Communist Party.

I have known a number of members of the American Communist Party. I liked
them. They were intelligent, well informed, and civil.

Once I took a seminar on Das Kapital given by the American Communist
Party. It was really fascinating.

fuck you and go to russia you communist

[Rockprincess]

Muhammad Ali

[stumbler]

Frederick Douglass

Born a slave and yet became one of the most prominent men in 19th century American History. He was the first black man to run for the office of vice president on the Equality ticket and was a strong advocate for equal rights for all.

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

But to me his greatest contribution may be his description of Slave owners who I could relate to power addicted bosses in our modern age. He pointed out that there was no sense to how the rewarded or punished slaves because the real purpose was only to exercise their power which to him not only represented seriously flawed methodology but also some kind of severe inner weakness and insecurity.

[deidre79]

Fats Domino

[deidre79]

Frankie Lymon

[bousch]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Thurgood Marshall, Supreme court Justice

George Washington Carver, Inventor and teacher

Malcolm X, Black activist (At one time the only man in America believed to be able to stop a race riot or start one).

Malcolm X

Memorable Achievements

Uhh...he fought for civil rights and killed 34 non-POWs during his tenure as Malcolm in the name of liberty and/or...well hhmm

[Whitey44]

William Alexander Leidesdorf (1810-184:

He was an influential figure in the history of San Franciscoand the state of California. He was one of the most enterprising businessmen in the Bay Area. Leidesdorff built and owned San Francisco's first hotel and operated the first steamship to pass through the Golden Gate area. As a civic and educational leader, he established the city's first public school and served as city treasurer. In 1846 he aided General Fremont and his rebels in their settlement of Northern California. His Mexican citizenship allowed him to purchase 35,000 acres of land. Leidesdorff Street, a five block long alleyway in the city's financial district, pays tribute to the California pioneer.

[deidre79]

Michelle Obama

[bousch]

Originally Posted by Rockprincess

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali
a known draft dodger

[stumbler]

Chuck Berry (Arguably the father of Rock and Roll proud of his roots and unashamed of his color).

Ray Charles (A true innovator of American Music).