Fun Fact of the Week
- enisha smith
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min read
This section will include a fun fact about Black history, culture, excellence, and anything else that comes to mind. This section will be updated biweekly with new and fun information.
April 8, 2020
The hair brush, lawn mower, refrigerator, and the air conditioner were all the fruits of African-American inventors’ creative laboring. Lyda D. Newman, an American inventor, created a hairbrush that could be taken apart easily for cleaning. John Albert Burr invented one of the first rotary-blade lawn mowers. Frederick McKinley Jones was famous for inventing an automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks and railroad cars in addition to filing patents for an automatic refrigeration system for trucks; the starter generator; and a generator for cooling gas engines
March 4, 2020
During the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 1500-1866, more than 12 million African slaves were shipped across the world and only 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage. Over 400 years, the majority of slaves (4.9 million) found their way to Brazil (the last country to ban slavery in 1888) where they suffered incredibly high mortality rates due to working conditions. Of the 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, fewer than 388,000 actually arrived in the United States.
September 14, 2018
Joseph Cinquez, son of an African king, was the leader of an 1839 famous revolt aboard a slave ship en route to Cuba. Cinquez and his Mendi followers seized control over a Spanish slave ship"La Amistad" and killed the captain. The ship slaves were soon recaptured off of Long Island before trying to sail La Amistad back to Africa and were charged with murder and piracy. John Quincy Adams represented the Africans before the Supreme Court, where Cinquez and his followers were set free and allowed to return to Africa.
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September 1, 2018
Carter G. Woodson organized the first Negro History Week Celebration on the second week of February in 1926. The week celebration eventually became a month long celebration which is now known as Black History Month.
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