Sir Godfrey GreggCelebrating Black History Month: Iconic Civil Rights Moments Yahoo News Photo Staff February 6, 2017 Black History Month is a time for the United States to remember and honor the plentiful and rich contributions of African-Americans to the nation. The civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s helped define…
Sir Godfrey GreggThis make you uncomfortable ? Black history is U.S. history. This picture is only 75yrs old, How many of you have grandparents who are 75 and older ? Can you imagine what they went through ? Don’t be afraid of the past and don’t forget it Average Rating 0…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggPaul Bogle (1822 – 24 October 1865) was a Jamaican Baptist deacon and activist. He is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 Morant Bay protesters, who marched for justice and fair treatment for all the people in Jamaica. After leading the Morant Bay…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMASS MURDER OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE 1910 SLOCUM MASSACRE IN EAST TEXAS In 1910, it is estimated that anywhere from 8-22, and possibly more African-Americans were killed in East Texas by White Supremacists. The tragedy is known as the #Slocum Massacre. The massacre has become a forgotten and hushed secret of…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggGODFREY GREGG FORSYTH COUNTY, GEORGIA: THE RACIAL CONFLICT OF 1912 In 1912, two different black-on-white rapes allegedly occurred in Forsyth County, Georgia. They threw the area into racially segregated chaos and changed the county for years. Ellen Grice was a young 22-year-old white woman who claimed that a black…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLOOKING BLACK ON TODAY IN 1974, DR. KING’S MOTHER, ALBERTA KING WAS ASSASSINATED DURING A SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE Alberta King was shot and killed on June 30, 1974 by 23 year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault as she sat at the organ of the Ebenezer Baptist Church during a Sunday service.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggEliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist and religious leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), and was a strong advocate for women’s equality within the church. …
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE THIRD SLAVE REBELLION – Unarguably, the slave trade had a remarkable effect on the demographics of Barbados, in that as early as 1685, the white population was completely outnumbered by the slave population by approximately 4 to 1. This racial disproportion created an unnerving and…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE BERBICE SLAVE UPRISING – Pre-Haitian Revolution, one of the major rebellions against colonial rule occurred in the Dutch colony of Berbice (modern day Guyana) on February 23, 1763. Slaves on Magdaleneberg, a plantation located on the Canje River, revolted against the cruel and…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggQueen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1686 – c. 1755), Jamaican National Hero,was a well-known, 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. Much of what is known about her comes from oral history, as little textual evidence exists. She was born into the Asante people in what is today Ghana, and…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggSojourner Truth; born Isabella (“Bell”) Baumfree; 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in…
Read moreSir Godfrey Gregg52 years ago, this speech changed the course of black voting rights in America Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired,’ and she told the 1964 Democratic National Convention Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer bore witness to the violence of Jim Crow and demanded…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE APONTE REBELLION – José Antonio Aponte, a free black carpenter, a descendant from the Yoruba tribe and former first corporal in the colonial black militia, was widely seen as the leader of a series of revolts that gripped Cuba in 1812. This series of revolts…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggA New International Airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines The Caribbean’s most anticipated airport project has finally come to fruition. The new Argyle International Airport on the island of St. Vincent receives its first-ever flights on Tuesday as the largest project in the history of the country. The…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE REVOLT OF 1522 – The earliest and most serious slave rebellion in the so called New World occurred on December 25, 1522 on the Spanish Caribbean colony of Hispaniola (Espanola), which is modern day Dominican Republic and Haiti. Approximately thirty years after Columbus first landed,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggFrom whence we came…The good old Friendship Rose on one of her afternoon tours. She was the first ferry to take me to and from mainland St. Vincent back in the days. Under new ownership she still sail our waters doing day cruises. She was built right here in…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggToday is the 209th anniversary of the arrival of the last known shipload of enslaved Africans in Kingstown, Saint Vincent. On 13th Feb. 1808, the Constance arrived in SVG carrying 250 enslaved Africans. The deadline for legally landing enslaved Africans in the British West Indies was 1st March…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggWhen the black justice movement got too powerful, the FBI got scared and got ugly In the 1970s, the surveillance and intimidation was no joke Members of the New Orleans Black Panther Party were arrested in September, 1970. Law enforcement’s strategy against the BPP was one of systematic harassment and criminalization.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThis unheralded woman actually organized the Montgomery bus boycott Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history Jo Ann Robinson’s booking photo after her arrest for helping organize the boycott. (Alabama State University) Earlier this week, the nation celebrated the birthday of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. — a custom that…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: Natasha Gregg THE ST. PATRICK’S DAY REBELLION – March 17, is more commonly known to the Irish community as St. Patrick’s Day or the Feast of St. Patrick. In the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, the day is also known as St. Patrick’s Day, but celebrated…
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