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Black History Month: Rice, Powell, and Dungy
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:28 pm
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I am considering mentioning a few more black figures. The final parts of this series may be focused on critical events in black history.
Condoleeza Rice
First black woman to serve as the United States' national security adviser, as well as the first black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09).
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Colin Powell
The first African American appointed as the U.S. Secretary of State, and the first, and so far the only, to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Tony Dungy
the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI
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Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:29 pm to volod
Medgar Evers
This post was edited on 2/20/17 at 6:28 am
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:30 pm to volod
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critical events in black history.
Can we make suggestions on what to include in that thread?
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:33 pm to volod
Tony Dungy was the first black head coach to coach in a Super Bowl.
What's cool about it is there was another coach that was ALSO the first black coach to coach a Super Bowl... Lovie Smith, on the other sideline coaching the Bears.
Was weird that it happened like that.
What's cool about it is there was another coach that was ALSO the first black coach to coach a Super Bowl... Lovie Smith, on the other sideline coaching the Bears.
Was weird that it happened like that.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:35 pm to Lacour
The Greatest Black Generation >>> black people today
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:37 pm to RhodeDawg
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What's cool about it is there was another coach that was ALSO the first black coach to coach a Super Bowl... Lovie Smith, on the other sideline coaching the Bears.
I actually came across that bit of information while looking up the results of that Superbowl. Really interesting and unexpected development.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:40 pm to weagle99
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Can we make suggestions on what to include in that thread?
Sure. Go ahead. I only stopped examples for people because at the time I had enough.
I am considering doing a Civil Rights Movement Segment vs Modern State of Civil Rights.
Or I could do something like the Harlem Renaissance.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:41 pm to volod
why you gotta throw all the Republicans into ONE week ?
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:50 pm to volod
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Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks.
Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, as Browder v. Gayle, and she testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld their ruling on December 17, 1956. Colvin was the last witness to testify. Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end bus segregation, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott was called off.
For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager who was pregnant by a married man. While, the conventional story is that she was pregnant at the time of the incident, she actually did not become pregnant until later. Words like "feisty", "mouthy", and "emotional" were used to describe her, while her older counterpart Rosa Parks was viewed as being calm, well-mannered, and studious. Because of the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to symbolize their boycott.
Claudette Colvin: "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:53 pm to volod
I don't know if they count since they're Republican..
Posted on 2/19/17 at 7:55 pm to goldenbadger08
quote:wish I had made that joke
I don't know if they count since they're Republican..
oh wait I did
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:10 pm to volod
Up vote for Rice, massive downvote for that holier than thou bag of garbage Dungy.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:14 pm to volod
Under a banner of "equality" there's a basketball game being played in New Orleans with 2 white players.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:14 pm to Jcorye1
Condoleeza Rice gets very little attention and is looked over quite a bit by the black community when she should be head and shoulders at the top. Regardless of politics.
And if she ever decided to run for president I would not think twice in supporting and voting for her.
And if she ever decided to run for president I would not think twice in supporting and voting for her.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:15 pm to RhodeDawg
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Tony Dungy was the first black head coach to coach in a Super Bowl.
Dungy is also one of just three men to win a Super Bowl as a player and as a head coach. (Tom Flores and Mike Ditka are the others.)
Dungy is the only player since the merger to intercept a pass and throw an interception in the same game.
His autobiography, "Quiet Strength", was the only football related book to debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:15 pm to Martini
I am not a Conservative, but I would vote for Rice in a heart beat. She's brutally intelligent and comes off as a great leader.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:16 pm to volod
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Condoleeza Rice
First black woman to serve as the United States' national security adviser, as well as the first black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09).
Also the first female member of Augusta National.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:17 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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Under a banner of "equality" there's a basketball game being played in New Orleans with 2 white players.
You must be in favor of participation trophies, I see.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:22 pm to volod
Lovie Smith: the first African-American head coach to lose the Super Bowl.
Posted on 2/19/17 at 8:22 pm to volod
I like Rice because her dad was a football coach and she loves college football.
I am a big fan of Tony Dungy. It was sad when he lost his son.
Colin Powell... I truly believe this. If I were to name one person I think would be the best person to run this country it would be Colin Powell. Part of the problem with our government is that we are in a time I call a "cold-civil war". Both parties don't just fight with each other in congress, they fight each other through groups who represent them. If anyone could bring some stability to our government it would be him.
I am a big fan of Tony Dungy. It was sad when he lost his son.
Colin Powell... I truly believe this. If I were to name one person I think would be the best person to run this country it would be Colin Powell. Part of the problem with our government is that we are in a time I call a "cold-civil war". Both parties don't just fight with each other in congress, they fight each other through groups who represent them. If anyone could bring some stability to our government it would be him.
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