No, Captain Observant, I stated that she majored in Red Herring.

Back to the regularly scheduled program...

I found the following information interesting, especially the facts about Mississippi.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...ns/010969.html

Idlewild is an actual town in Michigan where many prominent members of the African American community vacationed, due to not being allowed at white resorts. Also known as the Black Eden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan


http://www.historicidlewild.com/

I wasn't talking about writing skills. Tuxi has mad technology skills and the little stuff you are doing is way beneath him.

American History
 

Ralph Bunche, PhD has been discussed on GC over the years. :)

Among his many scholastic, civil rights, and diplomat achievements, he was the first person of color anywhere in the world to receive a Nobel Peace Prize (in 1950).


http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...unche-bio.html
http://www.ralphbunche.com/

ETA: The book "Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other" can be found on Google books. It includes an interesting tidbit about how Bunche turned in his Kappa pledge pin, once he enrolled at UCLA, because he saw no need for separate fraternal orgs at integrated schools.

Black History Month NEVER ends......
 

I'm watching the History Channel's "A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day" and it made me feel some kinda way and my heart is heavy. It's the story of the 761st battallion, the first African American battallion.

Some of the African American soldiers from DDay are on the History Channel talking about the racism that they experienced in the military AND when they got back to America. They didn't get the hero's welcome at home and they were treated like crap in the military.

The former soldiers on the show talked about how they don't feel bitter but they've forgiven, although they don't forget what they experienced. When asked why they fought for their country despite how the country treated them, the men said that back then they knew that this IS their country and they are glad they fought for it. At the end, they read the names of the 761st battallion men.

Background on how the 761st battalion came to be:

Woodrow Wilson had wanted blacks excluded from combat because of their supposed intellectual and moral inferiority. He received a lot of support from Congress and the military that was run by many proud members of the Segregated South.

Fast forward: FDR's wife was a champion of human/civil rights and felt that "colored people" can't feel the nation is worth defending if this nation mistreats "colored people" and doesn't let them fight in combat. So she, the NAACP, and the black press were pushing for the desegregation of the military. FDR allowed the Tuskegee Airmen and other black soldiers to fight, known as the 761st. They were unfortunately called "Eleanor Roosevelt's N******" because it was felt that they were a political move from FDR to appease his wife.
For more info on this piece of American history:
http://www.761st.com/
http://www.history.army.mil/topics/afam/761TkBn-2.htm