Black History Month: Pullman Porters, Sowell, Rodney M Davis

Part 5 of 8

I may add a few more, but this is the end people focused history. I think the next 3 threads will focus more on events.

Speaking of events, it is really disheartening to see such a strong history tarnished by people being upset over food.

For what it is worth, I love fried chicken, cornbread, mashed potatoes, sweet potato pie, collard greens, carrots, red beans and rice and all sorts of traditional Southern foods. Now onto history.

Pullman Porters- the uniformed African-American train worker, who forged his way into the middle class.

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Thomas Sowell - an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, whose books include Basic Economics. He is currently senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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Rodney Maxwell Davis- Medal of Honor United States Marine (a true hero).

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Ordered to the Republic of Vietnam in August 1967, he was assigned duty as a Platoon Guide with Company B, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division. On September 6, 1967, he was operating with his unit in the Qu?ng Nam Province on a search and clear mission during Operation Swift, when they were attacked by a large North Vietnamese force. Elements of the platoon were pinned down in a trench line by mortars, heavy automatic and small arms fire. He went from man to man encouraging them on and also returning fire at the same time. An enemy hand grenade fell in the trenches his men were fighting from and without hesitation he threw himself upon the grenade. He saved his fellow Marines in this selfless act and thus earned the nation's highest military decoration: the Medal of Honor.

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