Hello Family, prayerfully each of you are well and in good spirits.  Everytime I come to this site and look at the number of views, I get excited!  Please share with family members who may not have access to a computer.  

 

Today, I just want to drop you a few notes here:

 

- There are new reunion updates for you to check out.  Please click on the "Reunion" tab for the latest. Information includes    the welcome letter, hotel, travel and the registration form. *NOTE:  These forms are also being mailed to each household.

- If there is anything you'd like to share with us, please go to the Contact tab in the upper right hand corner and send me a message.

- I'm still looking for photos of the family old and new.  Please email them directly to verlenelittle@yahoo.com.

- If you would like to participate on the reunion conference calls contact Uncle Pook at Bejones_4@msn.com or me.  We will supply you     with the dial in number and passcode.

Now I leave you with a some cool Black History Facts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know.....

 

Cathay Williams was the one and only female Buffalo Soldier, posing as a man named William Cathay to enlist in the 38th infantry in 1866. She served for two years before a doctor discovered that she was a woman, leading to her discharge.

 

Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett refused to give up her railcar seat for a white man in 1884, and bit a conductor on the hand when he tried to force her. She was dragged off the train. She sued the railroad and initially won, but the decision was overturned.

 

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and the first black major-party presidential candidate survived three assassination attempts during her 1972 campaign.

 

The Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, housed one of the most successful Black economies in American history. The area is, now, commonly referred to as “The Black Wall Street.” Most of the businesses and homes were burned down in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.  In a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, six Black families owned their own planes. The average income for a Black family was well over what minimum wage is today. Dr. Simon Berry, who owned the bus system in Tulsa, recalls that in 1910 his average income was around $500 a day, according to reports from sfbayview.com.

 

The first Black professional basketball team “The Renaissance” organized in Harlem by Robert “Bob” Douglas. They were known to their many fans and admirers as “The Rens” and they’ve been called “the greatest basketball team you never heard of.” The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted the New York Renaissance collectively in 1963.

 

Diahann Carroll was the first black woman to be the star of an American television show in 1968 without having to play a maid or any other stereotypical role. Julia was a pretty big deal too, winning her a Golden Globe for best female TV star in 1969.