California Named After 15th Century African Queen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLjt00WHHU8 The NIA Speaker of Color Series NIA is the Swahili word for purpose. NIA stands for the hopes and dreams for the future of our children and the future of Head Royce School. The four founding members are four African American parents of students at Head Royce School (grades K - 12). It has been noted, this is the first time within Head Royce, multiple individuals have initiated an endowment for the purpose of funding a scholarship. The group was initiated because they felt the need to push for more diversity within the Head Royce School for children of color - through a scholarship fund. Also, by launching the speaker of color series. The group addresses multiple areas: foster pride, leverage powerful voices through financial support, showcase rich and important history and positively promote diversity.
Queen Califia - Mother of California
Grandmothers Who Help, Celebrating People of Color Around The World
Flalg of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Exhibit! Please visit our exhibit at the Livermore Library 1188 S. Livermore, Ave. The show case exhibit will be on display from December 7 to 31, 2009. For questions please call GWH 925-606-7239. Thank You! (Artifacts Donated by Sylvana Kruger.
************** **** Traveling Black History Exhibit by Grandmothers Who Help, Inc. California History *******
Jackson,
Lydia Flood (1862-1963)
Lydia Flood Jackson was a champion of womens rights and
suffrage in California for African American women and other people of color.
The outspoken activist was the first black student to attend an integrated
public school in Oakland, California.
Floods mother, Elizabeth Thorn
Scott Flood, led the 19th Century campaign for desegregated education in
California and founded the states first African American school in Sacramento
in 1854. Her father Isaac Flood, one of the first African American
residents of Oakland, California, also fought for education and equality for
blacks.
Lydia Flood was born in Brooklyn,
California (near Oakland) on June 6, 1862. She attended the private school for
blacks and other children of color in Oakland that her mother began in their
home at 1334 Fifteenth Street in 1857. Her father, a member of the California
Colored Convention Movement, challenged Californias segregation laws in the
early 1870s citing the recently enacted 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution. His campaign proved successful when his ten-year-old
daughter, Lydia Flood, became the first black student to attend John Swett
School in Oakland in 1872. Sources:
Tricia Martineau Wagner, African American Women of the Old West (Guilford,
CT: TwoDot, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press, 2007); Delilah L. Beasley, The
Negro Trailblazers of California (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1919);
“Elizabeth Flood’s School: Oakland’s First African American Institution”
(Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Winter 1992-93); George F. Jackson, Black
Women Makers of History (Sacramento: Fong & Fong, 1977).
Help Keep Black History In Our Schools! Please send your donation of any amount - To Grandmothers Who Help, Inc. P.O. Box 2533 Livermore, CA. 94551 - Help Sponsor a school in your community - Thank You
Grandmothers Who Help, Inc.
Mission Statement:
To encourage African American self-interest promotes group
development and cultural activities by presenting the History and Life of
African American People in a multi-media exhibit through educational
environments.
To become a working
organization to help “transform the problems of prejudice into the promise of
unity.”
Ma Ma Mousso Welcomes you to enter our annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Art and Essay Contest. Keeping Black History In Our Schools is very important. Keeping our children interested in subjects such as reading, writing and art helps them to be able to concieve of a vision and realize that vision. For twelve year Grandmothers Who Help have been pushing to keep Black History in Our Schools With emphasis on the contributions African Americans have made and are still making to these United States. Let us make sure the history we are living today stays in the forefront of our childrens education. I received a poem over the e-mail "Today" Today , I cried... I voted for a black man and, I cried. I cried for my father and my grandfather and all grandfathers before him. I cried for my uncles, my four brothers, my seventeen nephews, my two sons, my six grandsons and one great-grand son. I cried for the black I have loved and those that have loved me. I cried for the millions of little black boys (not forgetting the girls) over the centuries that did not, in their wildest dreams, imagine...that they could run for Office. I cried for their despair...I cried for all the men and boys incarcerated that lost hope in themselves and took the low road. I cried, I cried and I cried.. I know that this was "just the primary." But whatever the end result may be, today I voted in the United States of America for a black man, and.. I cried. If I should die before the presidential election it will be OK, Because today I voted. I voted for a black man and I cried." We want this history to always be known. Keep Black History in our schools. We want to always want our children to relize thier visions, they too can be the next president of the United States Of America. Support us with your donations. We appreciate and need your support.
Grandmothers Who Help, Inc. would like to inspire and support our next generation of Educators and Artists.
If you like to Write or Draw - Please send us an essay or a drawing that pertains to Juneteenth.
We would like to commission your art work, award you with cash and prizes, and make sure that the community at large knows about you and your talents. We would like to have your essays and art work published in news papers and magazines: And on display in important building in our communities. Please register for this contest - fill in the information below and become a winner of the Dr. Martin Luther King Essay and Art Contest.
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Dr. Martin Luther King - March on Washington
Don't Stop Now!
Standing On The Shoulders Of:
Fredric Douglas 1817-1895
We would like people from all walks of life to understand the "contributions African Americans have made to these United States, from "Antiquity to Present Times."
"Help" Grandmothers Who Help, Inc. Educate and Enlightenten, by donating to our organization Book our Traveling Black History Exhibit for your Dr. Martin Luther King events. Get an understanding of the African American Culture and how ones culture is related to the cultures of the world.
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