JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 21, 2012

I’d still say Langston Hughes. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are done to death.

Why always these three? There are over 60 inventions we use every day that were created by black inventors. How about the CELL PHONE? Invented by Henry T. Sampson in 1971!

Vivian Thomas. He worked side be side with Alfred Blalock to perfect the operation used to treat “Blue Babies”. Because he was Black, he never got the recognition he deserved, and was denied admission to medical school.

She can’t do a report on her mother. She’s too close. It should be objective.

Thanks for the mention of the McCoy Lubricator. Wikipedia mentions how it is likely (but disputed) that that is where the phrase, “the real McCoy” comes from.

How about Otis, inventor of the elevator

If not for MASH I would never have found out Thomas Drew seperated red blood cells from plasma for storage — Then Bled to death from a car crash because the Hospital had a sign: FOR WHITES ONLY

How about supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, or is he just an ’Uncle Tom" like the media called him.

Skip a Koch puppet like Thomas. Thurgood Marshal is a far better judicial example.

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, open heart surgery pioneer.

Florence Price!!

Why do they have to be dead to be historic? How about the kids (now 50- or 60-somethings) who integrated public schools? How about men who fought in WW II and Korea? And why not interview local people? There are plenty of folks in kids’ own towns who have stories to tell. Rev. Mr. King didn’t make history all by himself!

How about BGEN Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the first flag rank black officer of the US Army? Or his son, LGEN Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., who led the legendary Tuskegee Airmen during WW2?

For truly obscure but important Revolution-era historical figures: Wentworth Cheswell or James Armistead Lafayette (one of the first American spies).

hehe, very cool <3

WTF! Florence Griffith Joyner was FloJo! Where do you people get this stuff?