Thank you SO much for posting these links!!! As sickening as they are, I feel that I have learned an awful lot this evening, just surfing from site to site.

May history NOT repeat itself!!!

I have others I just need to find em.

ETA: Was that the first time you'd ever seen pictures like those or knew about those events?

Becareful not to paint Africa as one entity. Western Africa has a great history that is vastly different then Eastern, Northern and sub-sahara Africa.

Do not forget to tell about James Herman Banning- the first African-American to receive a pilot's license from the Dept of Commerce.
He and another man were the first black pilots to fly coast to coast as well.

Died in San Diego when an airport operator decided that he shouldnt be the pilot since he wasn't white and had a less-qualified and less-experienced white man take the reigns of the plane... it crashed.

http://www.findagrave.com/photos/103...1047751687.jpg
(there is no trace in Ames that Banning ever lived here... despite the fact that his plane was the Miss Ames and he got his pilot's license while he was running a mechanic's shop in town.)