The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation The purpose of The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation is to create business services in the African American community. We want to change the negative statistics portrayed in the African American community by the media and instead focus on the positive strengths and fixing those weakness that continues to harm the community as a whole. The company will consist of a traditional social service agency combined with a vocational school. This organization will also consist of various components ranging from a social, spiritual, and political component. This is a private organization each individual must accept the principles behind this organization and sign a consent form before they can become members. However, membership will be optional for students. We are concerned about the lack of resources available in impoverish African American communities.
Our main focus is on empowering black single parent families and assisting our clients in reaching their individual life goals, academic goals, and career goals. We will provide onsite child daycare services to our clients. Our services would include not limited to violent prevention, but also mandatory specialized support groups for our clients. Our focus will be on healing the black family from the scars of slavery. We will help mentor our young black males and our young black females in a positive direction. Our fine art’s component will be targeted to high end art production and sales to qualified clientele who want to purchase our art works. In addition, we plan on organizing our community for viable economic development and social action for the betterment of disadvantaged citizens. We plan to do rallies and marches, sign petitions for human rights in Chicago urban ghettos, and organize fundraising for our community programs. We seek to work together with other affiliate organizations and like minded individuals that want to make our vision into a reality.
In addition, this organization will provide adequate social services to the urban poor living on the Westside of Chicago. This organization is based on Mr. Emmanuel Barbee's new book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." Mr. Barbee is the founder and CEO of The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation. Our mission statement is as follows: This corporation is dedicated to providing the highest quality of social service that the urban poor has ever seen in their community. We are concerned about the lack of resources for special populations that are underserved in the African American community. Our main focus is on empowering single black parent families and assisting our clients in reaching their individual life goals, academic goals, and career goals. We will provide child care services.
Our services would include case management and community based support groups. Our organization is committed to a flexible service delivery approach with maximum accessibility tailored to individual service needs. This approach incorporates low fees based upon a sliding scale. Classes are offered to the general public, and all racial groups are welcome to join us. Again we want to change the negative statistics in the African American community by educating and preparing the urban poor with the necessary basic literacy skills for job training. We will raise our students educational test scores with effectiveness and efficiency.
We will also attempt to decrease the unemployment rate of neighborhood residents by forty percent within five years. We will attempt to improve the economic and cultural conditions of the community. We are committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice by building a local coalition from within the community and from the larger community in Chicago through direct action, and advocacy for the urban poor. We will promote group empowerment, and build a collective voice to effect systemic change.
We will provide social service to single parent families as well as onsite vocational trade school. This organization will also consist of various components ranging from a social, spiritual, and a political component all in one place. The uniqueness of this organization is the fact that Mr. Barbee bring his own personal experience as a sociologist as well as a former substance abuse counselor to this organization. We will meet the needs of the community by covering a range of services which other social services lack that is focusing on the entire "Black Family." We will offer a community service base programs which will focus on violence prevention with along with educational services in the form of a private vocational school along with small support groups and a onsite child daycare center.
It is our hope to offer courses in Automotive Technology Program, Cosmetology Program, and an Entrepreneurship Training. In addition we will offer a Food Services, Dance and Performance Arts Program; Oil Painting. The goal of The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation is to enable the urban poor to attain life skills needed for them to reach their life goals and become self-sufficient. Our social service program would consist of an adult literacy and after school tutorial services. We would also offer case management services such as assisting our clients with finding affordable housing , focus on health issues, an offer services to our single black mothers and single black fathers as well as offering a second chance program for ex offenders. Only law abiding citizens are welcome in this organization.
Due to the recession we will only focus on starting our dance and performance arts program and providing child daycare services. In time, we will offer a volunteer services and work closely with community residents to ensure that our services are meaningful and relevant for the community we intent to serve. Special services are needed to deal with the complex issues facing impoverished community in order to bring quality of life for those living in those communities. This organization will bring solutions for the urban poor and the community we serve. Every member must attend our mandatory orientation and our workshops and or seminars. Each person must sign a consent form stating that they understand our rules and regulations. Our long-term goals are to expand to the Southside of Chicago to improve the quality of life for those who live in the urban ghettos. We will create jobs in the community and help bring about a positive change to the city residents of Chicago in general.
Our child daycare center component is aimed at assisting our single parent families with onsite affordable first class child care services. Unlike our competitors, we will offer after-school tutoring, and activities such as arts and crafts, dance, theatre and gymnastics, all in one location. The child daycare center will be open to the public but our clients will have first priority if space are limited. With inflation continuing to rise each year, the typical American family now requires dual or supplemental incomes. This trend has created a need for quality child care services. Our Child daycare services will compete well in our market by offering competitive prices, high-quality child care services, and leading-edge educational programs with certified, instructors, and by maintaining an excellent reputation with parents and the community we serve.
A community of professional care givers with the credentials to not only enhance a child's early social and motor skills, but to also teach them advanced studies in performance arts and sciences found at The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation for higher learning. A collegiate-based curriculum tailored specifically for children, taught in a fun, nurturing care giving environment. The school dedicates its efforts and resources toward ensuring top-rated care giving services coupled with a high-quality activity based learning environment tailored for children in these age groups.
The center will respond to the needs of its parents and students with excellent care-giving and instruction, an advanced curriculum, flexible programs, local community involvement and business partnerships.Our open door policy embraces all who desire to provide a better quality of care, preparedness and education for their children. The school will provide affordable, first-class care giving and education by providing a broad range of integrated programs and services and innovative learning approaches. The school is committed to taking a leadership role in child care services, higher learning, community services and promoting cultural diversity.
The keys to success for our vocational school would be as follows:
* Service quality: care giving and educational programs provided by degree and certified educators, child care workers, tutors and subject matter industry professionals in a technological advanced first-class collegiate environment.
* Reputation: maintaining a highly regarded reputation for excellence in care giving, education and community involvement and being the employer of choice in our market for child care and educational talent.
* Profitability: controlling costs and managing budgets in accordance with company goals, adhering to strategic business plans for growth and expansion and reinvesting in the business and the community. Mr. Emmanuel Barbee, will oversee fiscal responsibility, employing an independent CPA for financial oversight. The assistant director will be hired to handle day-to-day operations of the facility and will work collaboratively with our investors and other campus personnel to ensure a successful business venture.
Our continuing educational programs would mentor and tutor students with there homework assignments and provide a base of understanding and interaction to ensure success in future educational endeavors. Finally, all of our learning and child care services employ technology, professional services and other activities that support and promote higher learning. We will also offer weekend specialty classes for children and adults and planned family activities in the community we serve. Our child daycare services will also offer children birthday party hosting services, providing great activities for kids and an easy experience for parents. Activity instructors will be assigned for these events and will lead the activities, ensuring a memorable celebration.
In closing, the mission of The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation is to create an entertainment, community education venue for the residents of Chicago. The Grass Roots Community Activist Corporation will be an accessible and affordable venue, offering unique and appealing entertainment for all visitors. The purpose of the dance school is to provide the residents and beyond, with quality entertainment in an enjoyable, pleasant atmosphere. It will provide excellent an place and opportunity for social interaction with dancing, educational classes, and special events, with an emphasis on "Live" dance music, including Salsa, African, R&B, and tap. The casual cafeteria will offer quality food, and excellent service that will ensure a large, loyal following of customers. This is Mr. Emmanuel Barbee's contribution back to his community and his people.
Followers
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Our Last Struggle To Win Equality For All Americans
Dear cyber friends & associates
I am proud to announce that my business structure has been approved by the state of Illinois. My business advisors from The Small Business Development Center and SCORE "Service Corps of Retired Executives" are working closely with me to find angel investors, venture capitalist, and silent partners. I am focusing on locating a place of business in my former community where
criminals chase me away 19 years ago. My higher power told me to go back and he will make all of my enemies my foot stool. I do this not to make a name for myself I do this because I love my people and my country. All those under my leadership will have access to me and I will talk with them on an individual basis. It's more then just business it's a life style. I am here to network and build healthy long term friendships to those who accept my hand of friendship.
The last struggle is for us to first learn how to work among our own kind first just like the immigrants that come to these shores. The Civil Rights Movement has done a great deal but I plan on dealing with capitalism ahead on. I have laid out my plan in detail in my book and I know it's a win win for everyone. I have no room for Passive spectators.
What I am trying to attempt has never been done in the black community. In order to understand my vision you have to remove your capitalist hat and allow me to educate you about Democratic Socialism on the local level. People will take me serious once I have a place of business.
Some say that black people just don't care about other blacks who live in the ghetto. I say well should we just sit back and watch on TV all of the innocent men, women, and children being slaughtered by senseless violence? People are afraid to get involved with this issue. I know how to put criminals on notice. I have a plan that will end gun violence, structural inequality, and poverty once and for all. All I need is a chance and for you to work with me. In order to understand my vision you have to remove your capitalist hat and allow me to educate you about Democratic Socialism.
In the debate about income inequality in America, many stories miss an important point: rising disparities are not just about investment bankers versus autoworkers. They're about entire communities of "winners" and "losers" As I mentioned in my book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America."
Lets start with Growing Gaps: Compared to 1980, the communities that have been hit the hardest are the low income black community "The Black Ghetto" and the hispanic community. According to census statistics They saw their median family income fall from $42,795 in 1980 to $38,941 in 2010 - a decline of $3,854. In large part, that's likely due to the influx of immigrants with lower educational and skill levels into these communities, primarily located in the Southwest. There was also a big drop in the small-town Service Worker Center counties, where the median family incomes fell by about $2,500 between 1980 and 2010. In those places, the story is mostly about the loss of small manufacturing. Those counties, many of which are fairly remote, survive because people in surrounding areas visit to do business. Without an influx of dollars from something else, like small manufacturing or tourism, times can be tight.
The Boom Towns, which grew dramatically at the beginning of the last decade, saw median family incomes rise by about $2,000. The big-city Industrial Metros bumped up by about $2,300. And the wealthy, suburban Monied Burbs saw their median family incomes climb by more than $3,700.
One way to think of the changes is this: The highest median family income in 1980 was the Monied Burbs at $55,688, while the poorest was Minority Central at $36,869 - a difference of $18,819. In 2010, the numbers were $59,404 for the Monied Burbs and $36,130 for Minority Central - a difference of $23,274.
In other words, the already-wide income gap between the wealthiest county and the poorest grew by more than $4,400 in the last 30 years in inflation-adjusted dollars. There are a few provisos that come with looking at the numbers this way, of course. Some places, particularly the Industrial Metropolis counties, have massive disparities within them. American big cities are full of examples of extreme wealth just blocks away examples of extreme poverty.
And remember 2010 was not exactly a banner year for the American economy. It was the depths of recession. These numbers may bounce back some in the years to come. But many economists believe what was lost in the recession may be gone for quite some time - that the "Great Recession" was structural in nature and Americans have to prepare for a new world that may look more like it.
So What Now?
One reaction to all these numbers may be, oh well! The numbers here reflect what happens when an economy changes and global competition rocks an economic boat that used to be steady. Maybe but particularly in the U.S., these numbers have real significance - and not just from the standpoint of equality and fairness. The U.S. economy, ultimately, is built on the fact that Americans spend money. About two-thirds of the economy is consumer spending. And these numbers raise a few questions. First, increasingly the weight of the economy is being placed on a few types of places for the most part, places that are better educated and wealthier. The buying power of other communities is not only struggling to keep up, it is falling behind. Is that best for a consumer economy? And secondly, what happens if the American socio-economic system, essentially, functions on two tracks? Will the people living places on the lower tracks stand for that and for how long? To learn more about my cause continue to read all of my journal entries. If you would like to join my cause I suggest that you read my book first and if you agree join my online groups include your first name and leave me a contact number to reach you.
Supporting Documents on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvcvdC2d0So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-lXJaEVecY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH3PiuAPabQ
I am proud to announce that my business structure has been approved by the state of Illinois. My business advisors from The Small Business Development Center and SCORE "Service Corps of Retired Executives" are working closely with me to find angel investors, venture capitalist, and silent partners. I am focusing on locating a place of business in my former community where
criminals chase me away 19 years ago. My higher power told me to go back and he will make all of my enemies my foot stool. I do this not to make a name for myself I do this because I love my people and my country. All those under my leadership will have access to me and I will talk with them on an individual basis. It's more then just business it's a life style. I am here to network and build healthy long term friendships to those who accept my hand of friendship.
The last struggle is for us to first learn how to work among our own kind first just like the immigrants that come to these shores. The Civil Rights Movement has done a great deal but I plan on dealing with capitalism ahead on. I have laid out my plan in detail in my book and I know it's a win win for everyone. I have no room for Passive spectators.
What I am trying to attempt has never been done in the black community. In order to understand my vision you have to remove your capitalist hat and allow me to educate you about Democratic Socialism on the local level. People will take me serious once I have a place of business.
Some say that black people just don't care about other blacks who live in the ghetto. I say well should we just sit back and watch on TV all of the innocent men, women, and children being slaughtered by senseless violence? People are afraid to get involved with this issue. I know how to put criminals on notice. I have a plan that will end gun violence, structural inequality, and poverty once and for all. All I need is a chance and for you to work with me. In order to understand my vision you have to remove your capitalist hat and allow me to educate you about Democratic Socialism.
In the debate about income inequality in America, many stories miss an important point: rising disparities are not just about investment bankers versus autoworkers. They're about entire communities of "winners" and "losers" As I mentioned in my book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America."
Lets start with Growing Gaps: Compared to 1980, the communities that have been hit the hardest are the low income black community "The Black Ghetto" and the hispanic community. According to census statistics They saw their median family income fall from $42,795 in 1980 to $38,941 in 2010 - a decline of $3,854. In large part, that's likely due to the influx of immigrants with lower educational and skill levels into these communities, primarily located in the Southwest. There was also a big drop in the small-town Service Worker Center counties, where the median family incomes fell by about $2,500 between 1980 and 2010. In those places, the story is mostly about the loss of small manufacturing. Those counties, many of which are fairly remote, survive because people in surrounding areas visit to do business. Without an influx of dollars from something else, like small manufacturing or tourism, times can be tight.
The Boom Towns, which grew dramatically at the beginning of the last decade, saw median family incomes rise by about $2,000. The big-city Industrial Metros bumped up by about $2,300. And the wealthy, suburban Monied Burbs saw their median family incomes climb by more than $3,700.
One way to think of the changes is this: The highest median family income in 1980 was the Monied Burbs at $55,688, while the poorest was Minority Central at $36,869 - a difference of $18,819. In 2010, the numbers were $59,404 for the Monied Burbs and $36,130 for Minority Central - a difference of $23,274.
In other words, the already-wide income gap between the wealthiest county and the poorest grew by more than $4,400 in the last 30 years in inflation-adjusted dollars. There are a few provisos that come with looking at the numbers this way, of course. Some places, particularly the Industrial Metropolis counties, have massive disparities within them. American big cities are full of examples of extreme wealth just blocks away examples of extreme poverty.
And remember 2010 was not exactly a banner year for the American economy. It was the depths of recession. These numbers may bounce back some in the years to come. But many economists believe what was lost in the recession may be gone for quite some time - that the "Great Recession" was structural in nature and Americans have to prepare for a new world that may look more like it.
So What Now?
One reaction to all these numbers may be, oh well! The numbers here reflect what happens when an economy changes and global competition rocks an economic boat that used to be steady. Maybe but particularly in the U.S., these numbers have real significance - and not just from the standpoint of equality and fairness. The U.S. economy, ultimately, is built on the fact that Americans spend money. About two-thirds of the economy is consumer spending. And these numbers raise a few questions. First, increasingly the weight of the economy is being placed on a few types of places for the most part, places that are better educated and wealthier. The buying power of other communities is not only struggling to keep up, it is falling behind. Is that best for a consumer economy? And secondly, what happens if the American socio-economic system, essentially, functions on two tracks? Will the people living places on the lower tracks stand for that and for how long? To learn more about my cause continue to read all of my journal entries. If you would like to join my cause I suggest that you read my book first and if you agree join my online groups include your first name and leave me a contact number to reach you.
Supporting Documents on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvcvdC2d0So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-lXJaEVecY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH3PiuAPabQ
Saturday, February 19, 2011
My Intentions In 2011
Greetings my cyber friends & associates
I not here for a popularity contest I am here to recruit the best people online to work with me directly reading my story and eventually spreading my organization in every major American city. Those who dislike the fact that I am trying to create jobs in the hood for black people trapped in American ghettos just delete me from your friends list no love loss we can just remain strangers. I am trying my best to network with reasonable brothers, sisters, and others to work with me in doing something to change the negative image of our people trapped in American ghettos. The sad thing is that although millions of illegal immigrants come to this country they don't have to worry about there own turning against them for they stick together and know that there own people will fight like hell to make them become United States citizens. I am not a beggar I am an authentic black man with a vision. I finally finish writing up my business proposal it's about 50 pages. I know it's long but considering the fact that I am requesting between $200,000 to $300,000 equity loan. I have four agencies that are working with me directly to better my chances of receiving the loan that I am requesting.
1. SCORE
2. The Small Business Dev. Center
3. Chicago Urban League -Entrepreneurship Center
4. Chicago Community Ventures
I have tried endlessly to make myself available to those of you who have the farthest idea of who I am and my purpose of rrecruiting others to join my cause. I am unable to respond to all of you on one chat site. I prefer that if you want more detail about me and my organization just send me your email address to my Inbox in turn I will send you my contact number so that you can speak with me directly. If you have a Yahoo email account and a computer microphone than you can speak with me live without exchanging numbers ootherwise you can read my Wikipedia Biography below.
My goal is to answer any questions you may have about me and my organization. In March I plan to solicit different banks to fund my organization I hope to have my business started by August of this year. I will invite all of you to come meet me in person. To all my professional friends I will be hiring but I need for you to read my story first and agree with the vision. To all my friends in the Caribbeans and in Africa please read my story "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." If you agree than I will expand my organization in your country and provide the same services and create jobs for our people.
Work with directly to help make this organization effective in every major city in America. Once we come to power we will end taxation; gun violence in America; structural inequality; and poverty once and for all. Many say it's just a dream help me make it a reality. To learn more read my Wikipedia Bio. Many say it's just a dream what I speak about than help me make it into a reality. Don't wait until I become famous before you decide to join my cause I will embarrass you. Today I stretch forth my hand of friendship and I ask you to join me by reading my story joining my online groups and keeping the lines of communication open. In turn I will work directly with you and your immediate family for life. I don't operate like the next man I think out the box this is how I get down. Peace & blessings.
My Prayer Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LightoftheworldInspirationalgroup/
My Social Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheGrassRootsCommunityActivistGroup/
My Wikipedia Biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
My Book Links -
Xlibris -
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=76565
Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Black-America-ebook/dp/B003D7K31I/ref=sr_1_2
Barnes & Noble -
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Solution-for-Black-America/Emmanuel-Barbee/e/9781450041102/?itm=2&USRI=The+Solution+For+Black+America
I not here for a popularity contest I am here to recruit the best people online to work with me directly reading my story and eventually spreading my organization in every major American city. Those who dislike the fact that I am trying to create jobs in the hood for black people trapped in American ghettos just delete me from your friends list no love loss we can just remain strangers. I am trying my best to network with reasonable brothers, sisters, and others to work with me in doing something to change the negative image of our people trapped in American ghettos. The sad thing is that although millions of illegal immigrants come to this country they don't have to worry about there own turning against them for they stick together and know that there own people will fight like hell to make them become United States citizens. I am not a beggar I am an authentic black man with a vision. I finally finish writing up my business proposal it's about 50 pages. I know it's long but considering the fact that I am requesting between $200,000 to $300,000 equity loan. I have four agencies that are working with me directly to better my chances of receiving the loan that I am requesting.
1. SCORE
2. The Small Business Dev. Center
3. Chicago Urban League -Entrepreneurship Center
4. Chicago Community Ventures
I have tried endlessly to make myself available to those of you who have the farthest idea of who I am and my purpose of rrecruiting others to join my cause. I am unable to respond to all of you on one chat site. I prefer that if you want more detail about me and my organization just send me your email address to my Inbox in turn I will send you my contact number so that you can speak with me directly. If you have a Yahoo email account and a computer microphone than you can speak with me live without exchanging numbers ootherwise you can read my Wikipedia Biography below.
My goal is to answer any questions you may have about me and my organization. In March I plan to solicit different banks to fund my organization I hope to have my business started by August of this year. I will invite all of you to come meet me in person. To all my professional friends I will be hiring but I need for you to read my story first and agree with the vision. To all my friends in the Caribbeans and in Africa please read my story "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." If you agree than I will expand my organization in your country and provide the same services and create jobs for our people.
Work with directly to help make this organization effective in every major city in America. Once we come to power we will end taxation; gun violence in America; structural inequality; and poverty once and for all. Many say it's just a dream help me make it a reality. To learn more read my Wikipedia Bio. Many say it's just a dream what I speak about than help me make it into a reality. Don't wait until I become famous before you decide to join my cause I will embarrass you. Today I stretch forth my hand of friendship and I ask you to join me by reading my story joining my online groups and keeping the lines of communication open. In turn I will work directly with you and your immediate family for life. I don't operate like the next man I think out the box this is how I get down. Peace & blessings.
My Prayer Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LightoftheworldInspirationalgroup/
My Social Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheGrassRootsCommunityActivistGroup/
My Wikipedia Biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
My Book Links -
Xlibris -
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=76565
Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Black-America-ebook/dp/B003D7K31I/ref=sr_1_2
Barnes & Noble -
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Solution-for-Black-America/Emmanuel-Barbee/e/9781450041102/?itm=2&USRI=The+Solution+For+Black+America
Monday, January 31, 2011
Celebrating Black History Month 2011
1619: First African Slaves
In 1619, America's first slaves from Africa arrived by ship in Jamestown, Virginia. A Dutch trader, who had recently stolen the slaves from a Spanish ship, exchanged them in Jamestown for food. It is possible that these first slaves were actually indentured servants, although the records from the time are not clear. The earliest record of a clearly identified slave is a court order from 1640, stating that the African must "serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere." 1790s: Cotton Industry Boom. The mechanization of textile weaving in England increased the demand for American cotton. Traditionally, cotton harvesting had been a time-consuming task because of all the seeds that needed to be picked out. But Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 made that task much simpler, and suddenly cotton became a much more cost-effective crop for farmers to grow—so long as they had plenty of slaves to harvest it for free.
1808: Ban on Importing Slaves. Although Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the U.S. in 1808, the owning and selling of slaves remained legal. In the next 50 years, the existing slave population nearly tripled. By 1860, there were almost 4 million slaves living in America. More than half of them lived in the Southern states, where the booming cotton industry was dependent on slave labor. 1831: Nat Turner Revolt. In 1831, preacher Nat Turner led some 75 fellow slaves in killing about 60 whites, including Turner's owners, before being stopped by Virginia's state militia. Approximately 100 slaves were killed during the chaos, and Turner was hanged six weeks later. Virginia tightened its slave laws to prevent further revolts.
(1831: abolitionism)
In the early 1800s, abolitionists became increasingly vocal. In 1831, Massachusetts journalist William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, one of the most controversial abolitionist newspapers, which called for "the immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves."
1839: Amistad Revolt. Joseph Cinqué led 37 other African slaves in a revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad in 1839. After killing the captain and hijacking the ship, Cinqué and his followers were captured and put on trial, with former president John Quincy Adams acting as Cinqué's defense lawyer. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled that they be freed and returned to Africa. 1845: Frederick Douglass. A prominent abolitionist speaker, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery by posing as a freed sailor on a train heading north. In 1845, he published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." In 1872, he became the first African American to be nominated for U.S. vice president.
In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from Maryland to Philadelphia to free herself from slavery. She went on to help hundreds of other slaves gain their freedom, guiding them on the same Underground Railroad journey she had used in her own escape north. She later served as a Union spy and scout during the Civil War. 1857 Dred Scott Decision. In the 1830s, slave Dred Scott was taken by his owner from Missouri, a slave state, to Wisconsin Territory and Illinois, both free lands. When Scott eventually returned to Missouri, he sued for his freedom, arguing that his previous residence in a free territory and state entitled him to this. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that as a slave, Scott did not have the right to file a lawsuit, and, furthermore, slaveowners in territories could not be denied their property. Thus, "free territories" were no longer such, until they became states. In 1859 John Brown, a white abolitionist, led approximately 50 men to the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where they hoped to raid ammunition to use against Virginia slaveowners. Although the men were eventually overpowered by troops and Brown was hung, the raid demonstrated the increasing militancy and fervor of the abolitionists.
In 1861: Start of Civil War
For four decades, tensions grew between the Northern and Southern states, due to differing economic interests and sociopolitical views. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as the first Republican president deepened the rift. And although it wasn't the overwhelming reason for the start of the Civil War a year later, the conflict between abolitionists and slave owners certainly played a part in the secession of 11 Southern states from the Union. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued an order freeing all slaves living in the Confederacy in order to economically cripple the South, which relied on slaves as its workforce. While the Emancipation Proclamation effectively freed 3 million slaves, it did not free those slaves living in the Southern border states that had remained part of the Union. They were not legally freed until passage of the 13th Amendment two years later. Among those free to do so, approximately 186,000 African-American men went on to join the Union Army.
By the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 600,000 had been killed, making it the deadliest war Americans have ever fought in. That same year, passage of the 13th Amendment abolished American slavery completely, and made it a punishable crime. Less than three months after Congress passed the amendment, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth while watching a theater performance. After the Reconstruction, Southern states began to enact Jim Crow segregation laws. By the turn of the century, African Americans and other "persons of color" were required to be separated from whites in schools, restaurants, hotels, trains, and other public places in most Southern states. After these segregation laws were challenged, the 14th Amendment's definition of equal rights was put to the test in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that as long as segregated facilities for nonwhites were comparable to those for whites, it was legal for them to be "separate but equal."
The proliferation of Jim Crow laws in the South spurred some African Americans to seek education as a means of transcending society's low placement of them. Those seeking inspiration and a role model may have found both in the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington, "Up From Slavery." Born a slave, Washington spent his childhood working as a salt-mine worker and houseboy, attending school whenever he could. He eventually became the head of the Tuskegee Institute, where he aimed to make African-American students self-reliant through vocational training. Job and housing shortages in urban areas led to increasing violence toward African Americans, including lynching. In response, a group of high-profile African Americans, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, began meeting in 1905 to discuss the challenges they faced as a people. In 1909, this group and its supporters merged with the newly formed civil rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the name stuck. The NAACP's agenda included outlawing segregation, crusading against lynching, upholding 14th and 15th Amendment rights, and providing equal educational opportunities to people of all colors.
Premiering under the alternate title "The Clansman," D.W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" proved to be historic in more ways than one. From a filmmaking perspective, it was revolutionary for its time. In 1915, cinema was still in its infancy, so the technical effects, filming techniques, and storytelling devices used in the movie were considered groundbreaking. But from a social perspective was undeniably racist in its glorification of the Klu Klux Klan and its depictions of African Americans as rapists and a threat to white society. The movie's release in theaters sparked riots, protests, lawsuits, a denouncement from the NAACP…and more than $18 million in profits.
The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey brought his organization to the U.S. in 1916, where he gathered thousands of supporters for his mission to establish a colony for African Americans in Africa, far away from white prejudice and racism. Unable to get support from the League of Nations and failing to negotiate a deal with Liberia, Garvey named himself provisional president of the "Empire of Africa" in 1921. But two years later he was imprisoned for mail fraud, and later deported.
In the 1920s, African Americans began leaving the South and heading north for more tolerant pastures. Many of those African Americans ended up in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, where they began singing, writing, composing, dancing, and otherwise creating up a storm. This new movement of successful black entertainers and artists was dubbed the Harlem Renaissance. Some of the period’s most famous artists included Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Despite being largely excluded from early Army recruiting efforts, African-American servicemen and women made a real impact during WWII. More than 2.5 million African-American men enlisted, and thousands of African-American women served in the Women’s Army Corps. Despite their numerous wartime contributions, though, these men and women were targets of on-the-job racism. The stigma associated with black military enrollment lessened after Harry S. Truman signed a groundbreaking executive order to integrate the armed forces in 1948.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the athletic world’s color barrier by becoming the first African-American player in major-league baseball. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers after playing a stint with the Dodgers\' "farm team," the all-white Montreal Royals. In his first year as a Dodger, Robinson hit 12 home runs, helping the Dodgers win the National League pennant. He was also named Rookie of the Year. He continued to impress both fans and critics throughout his 10-year baseball career, and he later enjoyed long stints in business and activism. He helped pave the way for future African-American baseball greats like Hank Aaron and Dick Allen.
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was one of the most significant legal milestones in African American history. The Court combined five cases under the same heading (Brown v. Board of Education) because each case was pursuing the same legal outcome. The ruling, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, stated that separate could never be equal, ended the legality of racial segregation in schools and other public spaces. The decision also declared that racial segregation “violates the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago, was murdered August 28, 1955, while staying with relatives in Mississippi. The “reason”? He had reportedly flirted with a 21-year-old white woman in a grocery store. A few days after the incident in the store, the woman’s husband and half-brother tracked Till down, brutally killed him, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. Till’s mother, Mamie, displayed her son’s body in an open-casket funeral “so the world could see what they did to [her] baby.” Till’s murder has been cited as the unofficial birth of the civil rights movement because of the outrage it sparked among citizens and organizations like the NAACP. In December 1955, 42,000 black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, began a year-long boycott of city buses. They were tired of being forced to sit at the back of buses (African Americans weren’t even permitted to sit in the same row as a white person). After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, a boycott was organized to coincide with her trial, and was then extended when Parks lost her case. After 381 days of taking taxis, carpooling, and walking through Montgomery, African Americans finally triumphed: Seating was desegregated on public buses, and not just in Montgomery.
After 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, there was no legal reason for nine African-American students to be prevented from entering their new high school, Little Rock Central High. But they were — angry mobs of protesters and the Arkansas National Guard physically blocked the students’ entrance. They finally entered the school on Wednesday, September 25, 1957, after President Eisenhower intervened by sending federal troops to protect the students. Students at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, formed SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in 1960. SNCC became a proponent of a new form of nonviolent protest spreading across African-American communities countrywide: the sit-in. The sit-in had been popularized that same year, when four students from Greensboro, North Carolina, remained at a Woolworth’s food counter until closing time, despite never having been served. Their unique act sparked another kind of peaceful demonstration: the Freedom Rides. Freedom Riders traveled by bicycle through the South, seeking desegregation of bus, rail, and airport systems.
It was during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 29, 1963, that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time: his oft-quoted, much-loved “I Have a Dream” speech. The number of participants at the huge march ranged from about 200,000 to more than 300,000. About 80% of the marchers were African American. It was a major milestone in the evolution of the civil rights movement. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his civil-rights reform bill was in the process of being reviewed by Congress. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, saw the bill through to its passage as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act offered governmental protection against racial, ethnic, religious, and gender-based discrimination and founded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It also changed biased voting procedures and requirements, and called for the desegregation of public facilities and schools.
Malcolm X's approach to the fight for civil rights stood in sharp contrast to the nonviolent tactics employed by Martin Luther King Jr., as did his view that blacks were superior to whites. But in 1964, after falling out with the Nation of Islam converted to Sunni Islam. Malcolm made a pilgrimage to Mecca and rejected his long-held separatist philosophy. The following year, while speaking at a meeting in Harlem, New York, he was shot to death by three members of the Nation of Islam. In an effort to remove the remaining obstacles that prevented some African Americans from being able to exercise their right to vote, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act called for the elimination of literacy-test requirements for voter registration and the removal of poll taxes, both of which had made many African Americans unable to vote in the past.
The last significant piece of legislation to emerge from the civil rights movement, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 served as an addendum to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Calling for federal protection against racial discrimination in the rental and sale of housing, the bill wasn't necessarily expected to pass Congress, due to distrust among conservatives in reaction to the growing Black Power movement. But the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the day of the Senate's vote probably added pressure to support the bill, which ending up passing into law by a narrow margin. While in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a sanitation workers' strike, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on a motel balcony by white gunman James Earl Ray. The violent death of the Nobel Peace Prize winner sparked a backlash among many disheartened African Americans, who rioted and looted in cities across the U.S. The Civil Rights Era had come to an abrupt and tragic end.
I am asking everyonr that claim my friendship to support me by purchasing my book if you can "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." I wish I had more support for what I am trying to accomplish. But this make me more determine than ever to make my vision into a reality. I am calling upon my professional friends that work in the education field. I need you to email me information on where I can find out the start up cost to start a vocational school? Or you can point to to source that has information about the annual budget to fund public/private school. I need that information so that I can include that in my business proposal. Remember I am trying to start a private vocational school and a social service agency I don't know the round figures for that information. I plan on having my organization up and running by June of this year.
Please read my entire Wikipedia Bio in it I explain in depth about me book and my organization. Please help me spread the word about my new organization "The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement" with your online friends, neighbors, and family members. If you agree with all the principles that I have written in the book than I want to hear from you. For those of you who want to speak with me directly just send me your contact number to my Inbox. For those of you who are uncomfortable with exchanging numbers I suggest that you get a Yahoo email account and a computer microphone so that we can talk on the computer.
Those of you who careless about my cause to help improve our urban communities I suggest that you delete me from your friends list no love loss we can remain strangers. My job is to recruit the best people I can find online to assist me in getting my organization up and running that one reason why I wrote the book. I am not getting any support from established black organizations in Chicago ask me why? Because to many people want to be in that spot light. We are all trying to do the same thing but in a capitalist society it's all about large profits and unfair competition.
Once my business is up and running I guarantee that no student will flunk our programs and I guarantee that our organization will be more successful than all current organizations combine.
We will provide special services to single black mothers and single black fathers that is long over due. We won't give lip service but instead results that can be measured. My organization is only for reasonable brothers, sisters, and others. All I need is a chance. I want our organization to be a model for other communities. Those under my leadership I will work with them and their families for life. I don't operate like the next man I think outside the box. I assist those who want my services. In the Bible it was the rich and powerful who declared that the world should be tax Luke 2:1-3. My vision declare that the wold should not be tax. The Egyptian crisis is evident that people are fed up with those in power who are out of touch with the people. How long will we remain under Capitalism? How many children have to die before we decide to take a stand against the NRA and Gun Laws in America? How long will we allow a two party system (Democrat/ Republican) to remain in power? Help me make history by joining "The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement." To learn more about me please read all of my entries this is how I get down. Peace & blessings
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The Grass Roots: Community Activist Group
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In 1619, America's first slaves from Africa arrived by ship in Jamestown, Virginia. A Dutch trader, who had recently stolen the slaves from a Spanish ship, exchanged them in Jamestown for food. It is possible that these first slaves were actually indentured servants, although the records from the time are not clear. The earliest record of a clearly identified slave is a court order from 1640, stating that the African must "serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere." 1790s: Cotton Industry Boom. The mechanization of textile weaving in England increased the demand for American cotton. Traditionally, cotton harvesting had been a time-consuming task because of all the seeds that needed to be picked out. But Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 made that task much simpler, and suddenly cotton became a much more cost-effective crop for farmers to grow—so long as they had plenty of slaves to harvest it for free.
1808: Ban on Importing Slaves. Although Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the U.S. in 1808, the owning and selling of slaves remained legal. In the next 50 years, the existing slave population nearly tripled. By 1860, there were almost 4 million slaves living in America. More than half of them lived in the Southern states, where the booming cotton industry was dependent on slave labor. 1831: Nat Turner Revolt. In 1831, preacher Nat Turner led some 75 fellow slaves in killing about 60 whites, including Turner's owners, before being stopped by Virginia's state militia. Approximately 100 slaves were killed during the chaos, and Turner was hanged six weeks later. Virginia tightened its slave laws to prevent further revolts.
(1831: abolitionism)
In the early 1800s, abolitionists became increasingly vocal. In 1831, Massachusetts journalist William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, one of the most controversial abolitionist newspapers, which called for "the immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves."
1839: Amistad Revolt. Joseph Cinqué led 37 other African slaves in a revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad in 1839. After killing the captain and hijacking the ship, Cinqué and his followers were captured and put on trial, with former president John Quincy Adams acting as Cinqué's defense lawyer. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled that they be freed and returned to Africa. 1845: Frederick Douglass. A prominent abolitionist speaker, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery by posing as a freed sailor on a train heading north. In 1845, he published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." In 1872, he became the first African American to be nominated for U.S. vice president.
In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from Maryland to Philadelphia to free herself from slavery. She went on to help hundreds of other slaves gain their freedom, guiding them on the same Underground Railroad journey she had used in her own escape north. She later served as a Union spy and scout during the Civil War. 1857 Dred Scott Decision. In the 1830s, slave Dred Scott was taken by his owner from Missouri, a slave state, to Wisconsin Territory and Illinois, both free lands. When Scott eventually returned to Missouri, he sued for his freedom, arguing that his previous residence in a free territory and state entitled him to this. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that as a slave, Scott did not have the right to file a lawsuit, and, furthermore, slaveowners in territories could not be denied their property. Thus, "free territories" were no longer such, until they became states. In 1859 John Brown, a white abolitionist, led approximately 50 men to the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where they hoped to raid ammunition to use against Virginia slaveowners. Although the men were eventually overpowered by troops and Brown was hung, the raid demonstrated the increasing militancy and fervor of the abolitionists.
In 1861: Start of Civil War
For four decades, tensions grew between the Northern and Southern states, due to differing economic interests and sociopolitical views. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as the first Republican president deepened the rift. And although it wasn't the overwhelming reason for the start of the Civil War a year later, the conflict between abolitionists and slave owners certainly played a part in the secession of 11 Southern states from the Union. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued an order freeing all slaves living in the Confederacy in order to economically cripple the South, which relied on slaves as its workforce. While the Emancipation Proclamation effectively freed 3 million slaves, it did not free those slaves living in the Southern border states that had remained part of the Union. They were not legally freed until passage of the 13th Amendment two years later. Among those free to do so, approximately 186,000 African-American men went on to join the Union Army.
By the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 600,000 had been killed, making it the deadliest war Americans have ever fought in. That same year, passage of the 13th Amendment abolished American slavery completely, and made it a punishable crime. Less than three months after Congress passed the amendment, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth while watching a theater performance. After the Reconstruction, Southern states began to enact Jim Crow segregation laws. By the turn of the century, African Americans and other "persons of color" were required to be separated from whites in schools, restaurants, hotels, trains, and other public places in most Southern states. After these segregation laws were challenged, the 14th Amendment's definition of equal rights was put to the test in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that as long as segregated facilities for nonwhites were comparable to those for whites, it was legal for them to be "separate but equal."
The proliferation of Jim Crow laws in the South spurred some African Americans to seek education as a means of transcending society's low placement of them. Those seeking inspiration and a role model may have found both in the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington, "Up From Slavery." Born a slave, Washington spent his childhood working as a salt-mine worker and houseboy, attending school whenever he could. He eventually became the head of the Tuskegee Institute, where he aimed to make African-American students self-reliant through vocational training. Job and housing shortages in urban areas led to increasing violence toward African Americans, including lynching. In response, a group of high-profile African Americans, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, began meeting in 1905 to discuss the challenges they faced as a people. In 1909, this group and its supporters merged with the newly formed civil rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the name stuck. The NAACP's agenda included outlawing segregation, crusading against lynching, upholding 14th and 15th Amendment rights, and providing equal educational opportunities to people of all colors.
Premiering under the alternate title "The Clansman," D.W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" proved to be historic in more ways than one. From a filmmaking perspective, it was revolutionary for its time. In 1915, cinema was still in its infancy, so the technical effects, filming techniques, and storytelling devices used in the movie were considered groundbreaking. But from a social perspective was undeniably racist in its glorification of the Klu Klux Klan and its depictions of African Americans as rapists and a threat to white society. The movie's release in theaters sparked riots, protests, lawsuits, a denouncement from the NAACP…and more than $18 million in profits.
The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey brought his organization to the U.S. in 1916, where he gathered thousands of supporters for his mission to establish a colony for African Americans in Africa, far away from white prejudice and racism. Unable to get support from the League of Nations and failing to negotiate a deal with Liberia, Garvey named himself provisional president of the "Empire of Africa" in 1921. But two years later he was imprisoned for mail fraud, and later deported.
In the 1920s, African Americans began leaving the South and heading north for more tolerant pastures. Many of those African Americans ended up in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, where they began singing, writing, composing, dancing, and otherwise creating up a storm. This new movement of successful black entertainers and artists was dubbed the Harlem Renaissance. Some of the period’s most famous artists included Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Despite being largely excluded from early Army recruiting efforts, African-American servicemen and women made a real impact during WWII. More than 2.5 million African-American men enlisted, and thousands of African-American women served in the Women’s Army Corps. Despite their numerous wartime contributions, though, these men and women were targets of on-the-job racism. The stigma associated with black military enrollment lessened after Harry S. Truman signed a groundbreaking executive order to integrate the armed forces in 1948.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the athletic world’s color barrier by becoming the first African-American player in major-league baseball. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers after playing a stint with the Dodgers\' "farm team," the all-white Montreal Royals. In his first year as a Dodger, Robinson hit 12 home runs, helping the Dodgers win the National League pennant. He was also named Rookie of the Year. He continued to impress both fans and critics throughout his 10-year baseball career, and he later enjoyed long stints in business and activism. He helped pave the way for future African-American baseball greats like Hank Aaron and Dick Allen.
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was one of the most significant legal milestones in African American history. The Court combined five cases under the same heading (Brown v. Board of Education) because each case was pursuing the same legal outcome. The ruling, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, stated that separate could never be equal, ended the legality of racial segregation in schools and other public spaces. The decision also declared that racial segregation “violates the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago, was murdered August 28, 1955, while staying with relatives in Mississippi. The “reason”? He had reportedly flirted with a 21-year-old white woman in a grocery store. A few days after the incident in the store, the woman’s husband and half-brother tracked Till down, brutally killed him, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. Till’s mother, Mamie, displayed her son’s body in an open-casket funeral “so the world could see what they did to [her] baby.” Till’s murder has been cited as the unofficial birth of the civil rights movement because of the outrage it sparked among citizens and organizations like the NAACP. In December 1955, 42,000 black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, began a year-long boycott of city buses. They were tired of being forced to sit at the back of buses (African Americans weren’t even permitted to sit in the same row as a white person). After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, a boycott was organized to coincide with her trial, and was then extended when Parks lost her case. After 381 days of taking taxis, carpooling, and walking through Montgomery, African Americans finally triumphed: Seating was desegregated on public buses, and not just in Montgomery.
After 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, there was no legal reason for nine African-American students to be prevented from entering their new high school, Little Rock Central High. But they were — angry mobs of protesters and the Arkansas National Guard physically blocked the students’ entrance. They finally entered the school on Wednesday, September 25, 1957, after President Eisenhower intervened by sending federal troops to protect the students. Students at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, formed SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in 1960. SNCC became a proponent of a new form of nonviolent protest spreading across African-American communities countrywide: the sit-in. The sit-in had been popularized that same year, when four students from Greensboro, North Carolina, remained at a Woolworth’s food counter until closing time, despite never having been served. Their unique act sparked another kind of peaceful demonstration: the Freedom Rides. Freedom Riders traveled by bicycle through the South, seeking desegregation of bus, rail, and airport systems.
It was during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 29, 1963, that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time: his oft-quoted, much-loved “I Have a Dream” speech. The number of participants at the huge march ranged from about 200,000 to more than 300,000. About 80% of the marchers were African American. It was a major milestone in the evolution of the civil rights movement. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his civil-rights reform bill was in the process of being reviewed by Congress. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, saw the bill through to its passage as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act offered governmental protection against racial, ethnic, religious, and gender-based discrimination and founded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It also changed biased voting procedures and requirements, and called for the desegregation of public facilities and schools.
Malcolm X's approach to the fight for civil rights stood in sharp contrast to the nonviolent tactics employed by Martin Luther King Jr., as did his view that blacks were superior to whites. But in 1964, after falling out with the Nation of Islam converted to Sunni Islam. Malcolm made a pilgrimage to Mecca and rejected his long-held separatist philosophy. The following year, while speaking at a meeting in Harlem, New York, he was shot to death by three members of the Nation of Islam. In an effort to remove the remaining obstacles that prevented some African Americans from being able to exercise their right to vote, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act called for the elimination of literacy-test requirements for voter registration and the removal of poll taxes, both of which had made many African Americans unable to vote in the past.
The last significant piece of legislation to emerge from the civil rights movement, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 served as an addendum to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Calling for federal protection against racial discrimination in the rental and sale of housing, the bill wasn't necessarily expected to pass Congress, due to distrust among conservatives in reaction to the growing Black Power movement. But the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the day of the Senate's vote probably added pressure to support the bill, which ending up passing into law by a narrow margin. While in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a sanitation workers' strike, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on a motel balcony by white gunman James Earl Ray. The violent death of the Nobel Peace Prize winner sparked a backlash among many disheartened African Americans, who rioted and looted in cities across the U.S. The Civil Rights Era had come to an abrupt and tragic end.
I am asking everyonr that claim my friendship to support me by purchasing my book if you can "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." I wish I had more support for what I am trying to accomplish. But this make me more determine than ever to make my vision into a reality. I am calling upon my professional friends that work in the education field. I need you to email me information on where I can find out the start up cost to start a vocational school? Or you can point to to source that has information about the annual budget to fund public/private school. I need that information so that I can include that in my business proposal. Remember I am trying to start a private vocational school and a social service agency I don't know the round figures for that information. I plan on having my organization up and running by June of this year.
Please read my entire Wikipedia Bio in it I explain in depth about me book and my organization. Please help me spread the word about my new organization "The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement" with your online friends, neighbors, and family members. If you agree with all the principles that I have written in the book than I want to hear from you. For those of you who want to speak with me directly just send me your contact number to my Inbox. For those of you who are uncomfortable with exchanging numbers I suggest that you get a Yahoo email account and a computer microphone so that we can talk on the computer.
Those of you who careless about my cause to help improve our urban communities I suggest that you delete me from your friends list no love loss we can remain strangers. My job is to recruit the best people I can find online to assist me in getting my organization up and running that one reason why I wrote the book. I am not getting any support from established black organizations in Chicago ask me why? Because to many people want to be in that spot light. We are all trying to do the same thing but in a capitalist society it's all about large profits and unfair competition.
Once my business is up and running I guarantee that no student will flunk our programs and I guarantee that our organization will be more successful than all current organizations combine.
We will provide special services to single black mothers and single black fathers that is long over due. We won't give lip service but instead results that can be measured. My organization is only for reasonable brothers, sisters, and others. All I need is a chance. I want our organization to be a model for other communities. Those under my leadership I will work with them and their families for life. I don't operate like the next man I think outside the box. I assist those who want my services. In the Bible it was the rich and powerful who declared that the world should be tax Luke 2:1-3. My vision declare that the wold should not be tax. The Egyptian crisis is evident that people are fed up with those in power who are out of touch with the people. How long will we remain under Capitalism? How many children have to die before we decide to take a stand against the NRA and Gun Laws in America? How long will we allow a two party system (Democrat/ Republican) to remain in power? Help me make history by joining "The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement." To learn more about me please read all of my entries this is how I get down. Peace & blessings
My organization - The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement Page
http://manwellsmovement.webs.com/home.htm
The Grass Roots: Community Activist Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheGrassRootsCommunityActivistGroup/
My Wikipedia Biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
My Book Links:
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Monday, January 17, 2011
MLK Day OF Service - 2011
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of compassion, non-violence, and service is more relevant today than ever before. Let's honor his memory by taking action to help others today, and throughout the rest of the year. Like Dr. King I have a vision and that is to complete Dr.King's Dream and The Civil Right's Movement mission which was "The Poor People's
campaign." Please read all of my journal entries to learn exactly what I am attempting to do for my former community and other underserve communities in the city of Chicago and beyond.
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campaign." Please read all of my journal entries to learn exactly what I am attempting to do for my former community and other underserve communities in the city of Chicago and beyond.
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My BlogTalkRadio Book Interview:
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Amazon -
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My Wikipedia Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
Saturday, December 4, 2010
True To My Calling: Seeking Reasonable Brothers, Sisters, And Others To Join My Cause
Dear friends & associates,
Long time no see how is everybody? I am bless to share with you all once again about how my higher power has given me a special assignment to start a new school in the hood. I am currently reading books that The Lord has instructed me to read and that is "How To Start A Business In Illinois" "How To Run A Thriving Business" and "Form Your Own Limited Liability Company" It's not easy reading at all because of all of the tax requirements and technical language involved. Before I jump into the business world I want to educate myself about the pros and cons. I can't wait for my book to make it to the best sellers list I have to move ahead. I can't wait on black established organizations to partner with me because this is my vision and my organization. I can't wait on career politicians to help fund my organization because they want credit for their part and dictate what I can and can't do if I want their funding for support. I am not a begger if you want to be part of the winning team then contact me I'm on Facebook; Myspace; Tagged; Black Planet etc... send me your first name and a contact number for me to reach you.
Given the current circumstances with our economy with corporate CEO's making record profits while the rest of us, things aren't quite so cheery. A record one in seven Americans is living in poverty. Nearly 27 million Americans who want to work cannot find a job or full-time work. There is only one job available for every five people who need work. Things are getting worse another 800,000 people got their last unemployment check because Congress failed to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed before yesterday's deadline.
By the end of the year, 2 million will lose their benefits. Another 1 million will lose benefits in January. That's on top of the estimated one million who already timed-out of the extended insurance, or the millions more who couldn't qualify in the first place. The Lord has given me vision on how to correct this problem which is outline in my book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." I have the answer to the unemployment crisis and I have an agenda for full and fair employment. I will be starting a new political organization in the hood called "The Democratic Socialist Party."
I'm still trying to build a coalition of allies to extend long-term unemployment benefits, but so far Congress has yet to act. I hope we can get petitions signed, organize rallies, and write our Senators, and State Representatives. Congress needs to hear your voice call them at (877) 662-2889 Congress has never before failed to extend benefits to the long-term jobless when unemployment rates were so high. So why are they blocking them now? I explain in my book that Conservative Republicans claim that they can't extend unemployment benefits because they're worried about the budget deficit.
Yet these are the same members of Congress who want to extend Bush's tax cuts to millionaires - a move that would cost $700 billion. Even some of the wealthy admit they should be paying more in taxes. The best way back to economic health and to decrease the budget deficit is to eliminate the jobs deficit. Until there are enough jobs, the best way to keep our economy going is to extend unemployment benefits to the long term unemployed. Please read my other entry to learn more about me and what I do for others online who accept my hand of friendship. Peace & blessings.
My Biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
Long time no see how is everybody? I am bless to share with you all once again about how my higher power has given me a special assignment to start a new school in the hood. I am currently reading books that The Lord has instructed me to read and that is "How To Start A Business In Illinois" "How To Run A Thriving Business" and "Form Your Own Limited Liability Company" It's not easy reading at all because of all of the tax requirements and technical language involved. Before I jump into the business world I want to educate myself about the pros and cons. I can't wait for my book to make it to the best sellers list I have to move ahead. I can't wait on black established organizations to partner with me because this is my vision and my organization. I can't wait on career politicians to help fund my organization because they want credit for their part and dictate what I can and can't do if I want their funding for support. I am not a begger if you want to be part of the winning team then contact me I'm on Facebook; Myspace; Tagged; Black Planet etc... send me your first name and a contact number for me to reach you.
Given the current circumstances with our economy with corporate CEO's making record profits while the rest of us, things aren't quite so cheery. A record one in seven Americans is living in poverty. Nearly 27 million Americans who want to work cannot find a job or full-time work. There is only one job available for every five people who need work. Things are getting worse another 800,000 people got their last unemployment check because Congress failed to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed before yesterday's deadline.
By the end of the year, 2 million will lose their benefits. Another 1 million will lose benefits in January. That's on top of the estimated one million who already timed-out of the extended insurance, or the millions more who couldn't qualify in the first place. The Lord has given me vision on how to correct this problem which is outline in my book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." I have the answer to the unemployment crisis and I have an agenda for full and fair employment. I will be starting a new political organization in the hood called "The Democratic Socialist Party."
I'm still trying to build a coalition of allies to extend long-term unemployment benefits, but so far Congress has yet to act. I hope we can get petitions signed, organize rallies, and write our Senators, and State Representatives. Congress needs to hear your voice call them at (877) 662-2889 Congress has never before failed to extend benefits to the long-term jobless when unemployment rates were so high. So why are they blocking them now? I explain in my book that Conservative Republicans claim that they can't extend unemployment benefits because they're worried about the budget deficit.
Yet these are the same members of Congress who want to extend Bush's tax cuts to millionaires - a move that would cost $700 billion. Even some of the wealthy admit they should be paying more in taxes. The best way back to economic health and to decrease the budget deficit is to eliminate the jobs deficit. Until there are enough jobs, the best way to keep our economy going is to extend unemployment benefits to the long term unemployed. Please read my other entry to learn more about me and what I do for others online who accept my hand of friendship. Peace & blessings.
My Biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emanuel29
Monday, November 22, 2010
Recruiting My Future Staff And My Future Clientele
I have the answer to end gun violence in America; I have the answer to end structural inequality in America; I have the answer to end poverty once an for all in America. What would you pay for such information? The answer is in my new book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America."
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