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Booker T. Washington
He was the first African-American man on a U.S. postage stamp. The "T" stands for Taliaferro, a name given to him by his mother. Booker recruited the famous plant scientist, George Washington Carver, to come and teach at his school. His father was a white plantation owner. Booker T. Washington was the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Buffalo Soldier
The army reorganization act of 1869 Allowed black people into the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiment and the 24th and 25th infantry regiment . 12,500 black men served in the nineteenth century, At fort Leavenworth, Kansas. They was named "negro Calvary" -
The Black Cowboys
Black cowboys have been part of Texas history since the early nineteenth century. A couple black men served with the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiments and gain with horses. Near the 1870’s and 1880’s , black men joined several hundred Mexicans, Native Americans, and white men on the long cattle drives from Texas and Kansas, -
Hardships of the Black Cowboys
Many of the slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries were familiar with cattle herding from their homelands of West Africa. So some slave were already equip with the skills to be a Black Cowboy. The life of the black cowboys was not easy. The black Cowboys had to break the horses and heard the cattle across the rivers. The black Cowboys always took the harder jobs, These jobs was better than being a slave on a plantation -
The Black Cowboy Legacy
The legacy of the black cowboys is still going on as the Federation of Black Cowboys. This city take kids from the streets in inner city and teach about life on a horseback. This organization hopes to give these kids inspiration for a brighter future. Not all the kids this organization work with have a troubled surroundings, and each kid learn a responsibility before being aloud to ride a horse. -
The legendary buffalo
The Buffalo Soldiers fought by the native american tribes in the Indian war. The leader among the legendary "buffalo," Was Charles young (1864-1922) The soldiers started to curl they're hair in honor of the buffalo. The Indian war was won because of the Buffalo soldiers. -
The Buffalo Soldiers Fame
No attention was given to the black cowboys who made the mark in western history by Hollywood. Riders like William “Bill” Pickett, Stagecoach Mary, Nat Love and Bass Reeves were among the most famous.Documentary filmmakers John Ferguson and Gregg MacDonald have created “The Forgotten Cowboys,” in which they follow the contemporary black cowboys of today, like Jason Griffin, -
Booker T. Washington
Born into slavery in Virginia in the mid-to-late 1850s, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama now known as Tuskegee University, which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. A political adviser and writer, Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift. -
W.E.B Du Bois
The talented tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. The term was created by Northern philanthropist, then publicized by W.E.B Du Bois in an influential essay of the same name, which he published in september 1903. -
NAACP
The NAACP is formally known as the National association for the advancement of Colored people. The NAACP is the oldest and largest Civil Rights organization in the united states. -
NAACP
The National Association for the advancement of colored people is an african-american civil rights organization in the united states. Formed in 1909 by moorfield storey, Mary write ovington and W.E.B Dubois, while the National Association for the Advancement of colored people, better known as the NAACP, helped end lynching and fought segregation and discrimination, some people are questioning its relevance on it’s 100th anniversary. -
W.E.B Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a noted scholar, editor, and African American activist. Founding member of the NAACP. Before he died, in 1963, he had written 17 books, edited four journals and played a key role in reshaping black-white relations in America.