African American Heroes

Sometimes I don't think people realize how much African Americans have done for us, and this country. While researching I learned so many things invented, and achieved by African Americans. There are also a ton of African American heroes. Every hero was modest, intelligent, and didn't let anything get in the way of them. African Americans have achieved so much this far and the heroes really should be more well known.

Drinking Gourd Song

When the sun comes back,
and the first Quail calls,
Follow the drinking gourd,
For the old man is waiting
for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.

Chorus:

Follow the drinking gourd,
Follow the drinking gourd,
For the old man is waiting
for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.

The riverbank will make a very good road,
The dead trees show you the way.
Left foot, peg fo

ot traveling on,
Following the drinking gourd.

The river ends between two hills,
Follow the drinking gourd,
There's another river on the other side,

Follow the drinking gourd.

When the great big river meets t

he little river,
Follow the drinking gourd.
For the old man is waiting
for to carry you to freedom

If you follow the drinking gourd.

The drinking gourd song was supposedly used by the Underground Railroad that included instructions and a map to escape slavery.

QUOTES......

"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."
Ralph Abernathy, Civil Rights Activist (1926-1991)

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will acco

mplish nothing in life."
Muhammed Ali, Boxing Champion (1942-)

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
James Baldwin, Writer and Activist (1924-1987)

HEROES....

George Washington Carver was a hero because he dreamed of going to college for so long and finally was able to. While he was there Carver worked so hard and he was asked to stay and become a science teacher. But Carver had already decided to move to Alabama and assist poor farmers. He figured he could teach the poor people the things he learned in college. George Washington Carver supplied education to people who needed it the most. He was in fact a hero.

This song is Slide Show by T.I ft. John legend. I posted this because African American heroes, DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa are said to of discovered rap. This is a modern day rap song.

The picture is Jesse Owens. Owens was a track-and-field star who set a world record for the long jump that stood for 25 years and won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.

Mae Jemison was the first woman, not to mention African American woman to land on the moon. She was a hero because Jemison worked so hard to be an astronaut and was finally rewarded with being able to go to the moon. She accomplished so much as an African American hero.

Conclusion

My overall findings with African American heroes was every single hero had to have enough endurance and ability to devote their life to something. So many African Americans have accomplished so much and its just amazing to see in comparison to modern day. Without African Americans in general, the world as we know it today most definitely would not be the same.

Citations

http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/followthedrinkinggourd.htm

http://www.orgsites.com/oh/creation/Carver,_George_Washington.jpg

http://www.learningtogive.org/search/quotes/Display_Quotes.asp?perspective_id=1&search_type=perspective

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Jesse_Owens.jpg

http://www.cap.gov/documents/Mae_Jemison_1.jpg