Of abraham lincoln, established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of web 23ois, april 23 february in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. Alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great
On lectures in history, Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson teaches a class on the philosophy of w. E. B. Dubois, an author and civil rights activist in the late 18th late 19th and early 20th centuries. He described his early life, role as an educator, and relationship with other activists of the time. This class is about an hour. Maurice jackson today we discuss the works of w. E. B dubois. We just entered africanamerican history month. Odson established this for three reasons. One was because of Frederick Douglass birthday, the birthday of abraham lincoln, who established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of w. E. B. Dubois, born february 23 in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. As we went to the hospital, i said, dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on George Washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, we will have a dubois baby. You can imagine what you would sa
Second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. His grandfather alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great barrington. His grandfather had some going back to hasty haiti, we just dont know. Some mixture, german somewhere along the line. When i asked him w
Things right . We outlined three reasons in the legal brief. First of all, this is not the first time the president has given a posthumous pardon to someone who has passed away. Both president clinton and president bush have given posthumous parting in the last years of their administration. Clinton 1999 and president bush 2008. These are definitely legal, and definitely president for doing so. Secondly, Marcus Garvey is innocent. We have proven that beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt. The United States Congress Held a hearing in 1987 in the House Judiciary Committee chair by john conyers where they afford indepth all of the evidence. They look at historical evidence presented by historians like tony martin. They conclude he was innocent back in 1987. There have been dozens of books. Currently it is in the state. His face is on the currency of jamaicas currency. Marcus garvey is innocent and people around the world have recognized it. Even our own United States government has recogn
Africanamericans to return to africa. The petition was filed in june. This is one hour and 30 minutes. I would like to welcome everyone this afternoon to this historic and is precious occasion. The petition for the pardon of the honorable Marcus Garvey. I am a social justice and human rights lawyer here in the washington, d. C. , area. We have a very Dynamic Panel for us this afternoon. We are going to talk about the legal issues of the case, the historical issues, the impact of Marcus Garvey and the worldwide diaspora and many other aspects as well. Im going to start off with reading a statement. Congresswoman Yvette D Clark representing a new york congressional district. This is her statement that she wanted to have read at the Marcus Harvey press conference august 17, 2016. Marcus garvey lives in history as one of the first readers of the American Civil Rights movement. To unite people toward a common goal of social progress. Marcus garvey founded the universal Negro Improvement Ass