History is not the completed version on pages taunted against the melanin of skin. The truth is in the History of progression above the historic struggles that were; created by man.
1. Phillis Wheatley was the first
African-American author to publish a book of poetry.
2. Shirley Chisholm made political
history as the first black woman elected to the US Congress.
3. Mary McLeod Bethune was a
trailblazer for African-American people in education by opening her own school.
4. Bessie Coleman was the first
African-American woman to hold a pilot's license.
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
—Coretta Scott King
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
—Frederick Douglass
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
—Booker T. Washington
“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
—Susan L. Taylor, journalist
—Booker T. Washington
“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
—Susan L. Taylor, journalist
