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Understanding Wisdom And FOREVER Appreciating The Past
Dr. Alice Tyler Milton
~ Associate Dean of Business and Information Technologies Division ~
~ Acting Director of the Small Business Center ~
~ College Webmaster/BlackBoard/Tegrity Administrator ~
Below are links that will enrich your knowledge of the past, present, and selfless contributions made by just a FEW of our MANY great African Americans. As you read the wealth of information on this page, think about how our world would be today without the contributions. Also, recognize the unbending focus and intensity of their efforts despite repeated rejections and unfulfilled expectations.
We must continue to remember and respect our heritage by never saying good-bye to

yesterday, for we are still standing on their shoulders—yesterday made our present possible . . .
Click the picture for detailed information.

The First African American President of the United States
Obama Obama Obama Obama
Yes, We Can!!

Yes We Can -- By: Will-I-Am - MP3
What A Wonderful World - PPT
Mr. President - P DF
President-Elect Barack Obama Headlines
World-Wide Leaders Congratulate President Elect
A Look At Our President - Chicago SunTimes
Click here: Barack Obama's slideshow on Flickr - November 4, 2008

A Salute to President-Elect Barack Obama
By: Dr. Alice Tyler Milton - Music By: Will-I-Am

"We aren't what we ought to be. We aren't what we are going to be.
We aren't what we want to be.
But, thank God, we aren't what we were . . ."
Continue to Register to Vote

Who Is The Man Barack Obama And Where Did He Come From
Obama's Song 2008
Hope And Vote
Signed, Sealed, And Delivered
LET US REMEMBER WHY WE SHOULD VOTE!
A View From The Mountaintop
Obama - In Detail
Robert Kennedy's Prediction
Amazing: Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago
III: HU Stream - 2007
18th annual Patricia Roberts Harris Lecture - Senator Edward Brooke

Click Here for Memorial Program of Bernard Jeffery McCullough - "Bernie Mac"
Click Here for Overview of Life
Other African Americans Gone But Not Forgotten (2003 - 2008)

Russell Williams II
Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations
The Blue Baby Syndrome - Vivien Thomas
Black U. S. Marshals
Robert Moore
CEO/Executive Recruiter, Robert Moore Associates

Jack and Christine Hadley
Jack Hadley Black History Museum
The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses
First Two Black NFL Coaches To Compete At The Super Bowl
Lovie Smith - Chicago Bears

Tony Dungy - Indianapolis Colts
Winner of 2007 Super Bowl
Read Story
Ruben Studdard
Fantasia

Jennifer Hudson
A Salute to Coretta Scott King - A Virtuous Woman
A Salute to Martin Luther King
Martin and Coretta King's First Grandchild
Yolanda Renee King - Born May 25, 2008
Article I
Article II
A Salute To Black Gospel
A Salute to President-Elect Barack Obama
Black Entertainers - A Tribute to Past and Present

A Salute to Ray Charles
A Salute to the First Black Nurses
Inventors of Yesterday - A Salute of HBCUs
The United Negro College Fund
Milestones in African American Education
Iron Hill School - One Room School
African American First . . .
More African American First . . .
The HBCUs in the United States - Web Sites
The Murder of Emmitt Louis Till - Place: Money, Mississippi
Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4

The Greensboro Four -- Sit In
L ittle Rock Nine
The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
First Totally Black Owned Search Engine
The Sixteenth Street Bombing - Place: Birmingham, Alabama
Willie Lynch Letter: The Making Of A Slave
Apollo Theater - Many Entertainers Were Discovered

Points Theatre - Empowerment Through Edutainment
- The famous historian, Arnold Toynbee, once commented,
"When we classify mankind by color, the only primary race that has not made a creative contribution to any civilization is the
Black race." For 15 years and 2,500 performances, "1001
Inventions" has been an unusually funny antidote for this gross misconception.
The Myths, The Facts, The Stereotypes--The Realities
Click On The Picture Below
Martin Luther King's Six Principles of Nonviolence
Principle One
Nonviolence is a Way of Life for Courageous People
Principle Two

The Beloved Community is the Goal
Principle Three
Attack Forces of Evil, Not Persons doing Evil
Principle Four
Accept Suffering without Retaliation for the Sake of the
Cause
Principle Five
Avoid Internal Violence of the Spirit as well as External
Physical Violence
Principle Six
The Universe is on the side of Justice
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Atlantic Monthly--Black Milestones in African-American

History
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History
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Alabama
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League Schools, etc.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should

sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or
Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Tavis Smiley

~ BE READY
~ BE REAL
~ BE SMART
~ BE A SERVANT
~ BE HUMBLE
When your opportunity comes.
You will never be a success trying to transcend who you are. You have to embrace yourself, including your Blackness.
Learn to think critically for yourself.
Your generation, in many respects has it all twisted, it ain't about the ice and the bling-bling, it's about being a servant.
Cornel West put it this way; you can't lead the people if you don't love the people. And you can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
Because the toes you step on today may be connected to the behind you have to kiss tomorrow."

DR. CHARLES
SUSAN L.
TAYLOR
"In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change-
-breaking down
MADAME C. J.
H. EPPS, JR.
(Howard
WALKER -- wait for the
"I
University)
“I don’t consider had to make my own living and my own opportunity-myself brilliant, but I learned that I
Don't sit down and could work as hard as anybody opportunities to to achieve what I wanted to come; you have to get up and make them." achieve. I was willing to go old structures, without the latest shaking loose jacket, sneakers negative habits so or whatever. It is that something more important new and better TO GET A can take their place."
GOOD
EDUCATION.”
MUHAMMAD
ALI
"Champions aren't made in gyms.
GEORGE
WASHINGTON
CARVER
"How far you go

COLIN POWELL
"There are no secrets to success:
Don't waste time looking for them.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence."
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision.
They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." in life depends on your being tender with the young, compas-sionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these."
REV. JESSE
JACKSON
"We must turn to each other and
NOT on each other."
ALICE
WALKER
"No person is your friend who
BOOKER T.
WASHINGTON
"One cannot hold another down in demands your the ditch without silence, or denies staying down in your right to the ditch with grow." him."
More African
American Quotes

JUDITH
JAMISON
"Excellence is the name of the game no matter what color or what country you're from. If you are the best at what you're doing, then you have my admiration and respect."
THURGOOD
MARSHALL
A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
African Americans
Entertainers . . .
Aaliyah Al Green Jeffrey Osborne
Ashford and Simpson Fred Hammond Wilson Pickett
Yolanda Adams
Louis Armstrong
Pearl Bailey
Anita Baker
Steve Harvey
Isaac Hayes
The Platters
Leontyne Price
Bar-Kays
Be Be Winans
Black Gospels
Bobby Blue Bland
Jimi Hendrix
Z. Z. Hill
Billie Holliday
Lou Rawls
Otis Redding
Minnie
Ripperton
Marvin Sapp Lena Horne
Cissy Houston Shaq
Whitney Houston Sinbad
James Brown
Shirley Caesar
Kurt Carr
Ray Charles
Ce Ce Winans
Chubby Checker
The Clark Sisters
Cotton Club
Natalie Cole
Nat King Cole
The Isley Brothers
Smokey
Robinson
Mahalia Jackson Micah Stampley
Michael Jackson
The Staples
Singers
The Jackson 5
Etta James
Johnny Taylor
KoKo Taylor
Alicia Keys
Chaka Khan
B. B. King
Temptations
Carolyn Traylor
Chris Tucker
Gladys Knight Tina Turner
Evelyn
"Champagne"
King
Luther
Vandross

Commodores
Sam Cooke
Beyonce' Knowles Sarah Vaughan
Pattie LaBelle
Queen Latifah
Hezekiah
Walker
Dionne Warrick Andrae Crouch
Sammy Davis Jr.
Fats Domino
Gerald Levert
Left Eye Lopes
Ethel Waters
The
Earth, Wind, and Fire Malaco Records Barry White
Whispers
Ebonys
Duke Ellington
Missy Elliott
Aretha Franklin
Kirk Franklin
Marvin Gaye
Larry Graham
Hattie McDaniels
Mary Mary
Mo'Nique
The Williams
Brothers
Flip Wilson
Jackie Wilson
Dorothy Moore Vickie Winans
Motown Stevie Wonder
Smokie Norful Alfre Woodard
The Ojays Timothy Wright