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Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849 – 1908) was an American pianist and composer.He had numerous original compositions published and had a lengthy and largely successful performing career throughout the United States.

Thomas Greene Wiggins was born  to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Georgia. Young Tom was fascinated by music and other sounds, and could pick out tunes on the piano by the age of four. He made his concert debut at eight, performing in Atlanta.

In 1859, at the age of 10, he became the first African American performer to play at the White House when he gave a concert before President James Buchanan.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Children’s Advocate : b. 1939

What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence… I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

MRS. DAISY BATES by Tim Jacob

American civil rights leader, journalist, publisher.

ALTHEA GIBSON

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This is our Freedom Day, and we will continue to fight for our rights

“People have asked me* why I want to go through all those changes. Black men have told me I should stand behind them and push them ahead for the revolution. Black women have said that I am wrong not to want to support our men by raising strong sons and cooking for the revolution. And I say, they’re missing the point. … As the black woman I am and am becoming, I feel that I am someone the black community needs. I will not allow black men to seek their manhood in my oppression. If that is the only way they can feel secure, then I am not willing to help. If, however, they are as strong as I believe them to be, we can all work together as equals for everyone’s benefit.” - Cheryl J. Roberts

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Despite the fact that Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) was literally the first human civilization ever and despite the fact that humanity biggest war by death toll (WWII) happening in Europe just 8 decades ago.

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The 19th Amendment Did Not Liberate Black women 

by Allison Gaines

“The heroes a society accepts say a lot about the values they share. The original American heroes, the Founding fathers, were white men who never regarded Black people or women equally. Despite their violent, sexist, and racist ideology, Americans continue to put these men on pedestals, capitulating to their determination to commit genocide against Indigenous people and exalting them despite their embrace of slavery. 

These men are not heroes to Black people, and they should not be heroes to many Americans. Turning a blind eye to tyranny is not chivalrous; it’s obscene.

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37y after Soujourner Truth died, the 19th Amendment passed but left Black women behind.

They simply refused to fight for Black women’s rights as if they were unqualified to be women….“ 

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