03/21/2022
March 21, 1981
After a Mobile, Alabama jury acquits a black man of killing a white police officer. Ku Klux Klan members randomly kidnap and kill 19-year-old Michael Donald, a Black man, and hang his body from a tree.
03/21/2022
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
03/19/2022
March 19. 1939
Lloyd Gaines, a Black man, disappears months after the U.S. Supreme Court orders him admittance to the University of Missouri School of law. His family believed that he was possibly murdered.
03/18/2022
March 18, 1831
The U.S. Supreme Court declares in Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia that tribes are "domestic dependent nations" whose relationships to the U.S. "resembles that of a ward to his guardian".
03/18/2022
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
03/17/2022
Marian Wright Edelman
College: Spelman College
Date Graduated: 1959
Marian Wright Edelman is a children’s rights activist who helped establish the Head Start program.She has advocated for disadvantaged Americans all of her professional life and is president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, she was the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. In 1960 Edelman was arrested along with 14 other students at one of the largest sit-ins at the Atlanta City Hall. She has worked to persuade Congress to overhaul foster care, support adoption, improve child care and protect children who are disabled, homeless, abused or neglected. She has also worked to curtail children’s exposure to violent images in media.
03/17/2022
March 17, 1851
Southern physician Samuel Cartwright claims the discovery of the disease, "Drapetomania", that makes Black people run from slavery; prescribes whipping and amputation as treatment.
03/17/2022
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Steve Jobs
03/16/2022
Yolanda Adams
College: Texas Southern University
Major: Broadcasting
Yolanda Adams is an American gospel singer, actress, and host of her own nationally syndicated morning gospel show. She is one of the best-selling gospel artists of all time, having sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide. In addition to achieving multi-platinum status, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Dove Awards, five BET Awards, six NAACP Image Awards, six Soul Train Music Awards, two BMI Awards, and sixteen Stellar Awards. She was the first Gospel artist to be awarded an American Music Award.
03/16/2022
March 16, 2021
A white man targeted three (3) Atlanta- area spas in mass shootings that killed eight (8) people, including six (6) Asian women.
03/16/2022
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Nelson Mandela
03/15/2022
Lonnie Johnson
College: Tuskegee University
Major: Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Nuclear Engineering
An inventor and engineer, Lonnie Johnson holds more than 120 patents. He invented the Super Soaker water gun, one of the world’s bestselling toys. Curious as a child, Johnson almost burned down the family home trying to make rocket fuel. After college, he joined the U.S. Air Force, working on the stealth bomber program before working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He teamed up with scientists from Tulane and Tuskegee universities to develop an affordable way to transform heat into electricity. Johnson founded at least two tech companies in Atlanta: Excellatron Solid State LLC and Johnson Electro-Mechanical Systems (JEMS).