LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY

FIRST AFRO-AMERICANS LISTED IN LITERATURE: https://en.wikipedia.org JUPITER HAMMON IMAGE:  https://relg250.marybethmathews.org 1760 First known African-American published author:  Jupiter Hammon  (poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by  Christ with  Penitential Cries", published as a  broadside ) PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753–1784) IMAGE:  https://www.biography.com 1773 First known African-American woman to publish a book:  Phillis Wheatley   ( Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral ) PETER WILLIAMS, JR IMAGE:   https://en.wikipedia.org 1827 First African-American owned-and-operated newspaper:  Freedom's Journal , founded in New York City by Rev.  Peter Williams Jr.  and other  free blacks WILLIAMS WELLS BROWN 1814 OR 1815- 1884 IMAGE:  https://en.wikipedia.org 1853 First novel published by an Af

ROSA PARKS https://en.wikipedia.org Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.  On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.  Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the  NAACP believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for  civil disobedience  in violating Alabama segregation laws. https://www.google.com https://www.amazon.com Parks wrote her autobiography and it was published in 1992.  The title was: Rosa Parks: My Story.  There were books written  about her available online: National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks  Who Was Rosa Parks? By: Yona Zeldis McDonough So

https://en.wikipedia.org Mae Carol Jemison  (born October 17, 1956) is an American  engineer ,  physician , and former  NASA  astronaut. She became the first  black  woman to travel into space when she served as a  mission specialist  aboard the  Space Shuttle  Endeavour . Jemison joined NASA's  astronaut corps in 1987  and was selected to serve for the  STS-47  mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on  September 12–20, 1992. OTHER WOMEN IN SPACE EXPLORATION: XPLORATION OUTER SPACE TV SHOW: GROUP FROM TRINIDAD & TOBAGO- COMPETING WITH  ROBOTS!

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, 2020  CELEBRATION AT MLK CENTER IN RESEARCH TRIANGLE AREA, NORTH CAROLINA. (GLARE ON SUNNY DAY PREVENTED CLEAR VIEW OF FACE)