February is Black History Month !

(post written before leaving for Ethiopia)


Here is an email that I have received from our agency for Black history month! There are lots of neat information in these links !

A few facts that have been forgotten: some info on African-American inventors:
1899 George Grant invented the golf tee
1887 Alfred Cralle invented the ice cream scoop
1882 Oscar Brown- horse shoes
J.L.Love invented the pencil sharpener
1890 W.B.Purvis invented the cartridge for fountain pens
1975 A.P. Ashbourne- biscuit cutter (to make such round biscuits!)
1923 Garrett Morgan invented the traffic light
Madame C.J. Walker created hair products for black americans
J.A.Burr-lawn mower, 1899
Sarah Boone-1892, ironing board
P.B.Dowing-1891,mailbox
Isaac Johnson-1889, bicycle
J.M.Certain-1899, bicycle basket

Learn more at the following siteshttp://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/black-noir/index_e.cfmhttp://www.biography.com/blackhistory/index2.jsp

Scroll down in this one and take a few quizzes to test yourself. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.htmlurself or do a crosswordhttp://blackhistorycanada.ca/

http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/black_history/online/index.html

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/

http://socialstudies.com/c/blackhistory.html

http://socialstudies.com/c/search.html?Record_Type=Products&Subject=World%20History&Subcategory=Modern%20African%20History&+s@HVFMX.smGIZ8s

http://www.tntech.edu/history/bhmonth.html

http://firestone.princeton.edu/africanamerican/#top

http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/black_history/index.html