Celebrating Black History...Leaving A Legacy

PROLOGUE

Whatever you want your legacy to be, you must live that way right now. 
--Bruce H. Clark, The Power to Advance, Pastor of Advance Church in Silver Spring, Maryland

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Dr. Mae Jemison

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. 
-- Mae Jemison, Astronaut--First African American Woman in Space, Physician and Founder of two Technology Companies, www.drmae.com

Cicely Tyson

"I say that if each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this tablecloth, bedspread, whatever, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet."
 --Cicely Tyson, America I AM Journal

Dr. Cornell West

• "To be great does not mean you have to dominate other people."
  
• "When you really love people, you can't stand the fact that they are treated unjustly."
  
• "We may be disappointed in something or someone, but in #love we should never give up on it...or on him/her."

--Cornell Well, Noted Professor and Intellectual

Dr. John Hope Franklin

"It takes a person with a stout heart and great courage and uncompromising honesty to look the history of this country squarely in the face and tell it like it is." 

--John Hope Franklin, Noted Historian, Professor and Researcher

John Hope Franklin was born Jan. 2, 1915, in Rentiesville, Oklahoma.  He died on March 25, 2009 in Durham, North Carolina. 

Justice Thurgood Marshall

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." 
--Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), The First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Native of Baltimore, Maryland

Some of the public institutions named after Justice Marshall:

• Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas
• Thurgood Marshall College, La Jolla, California
• Thurgood Marshall Middle School, San Diego, California
• Thurgood Marshall High School, Sugarland, Texas
• Thurgood Marshall Academy, A Public Charter School , Washington, D.C.
• H.S. 670 Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change, New York City, NY
• Baltimore Washington International Airport, Baltimore, MD

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EPILOGUE

Kevin Wayne Johnson

"…our deeds, no matter how small, can bring forth a great return."  
--Kevin Wayne Johnson, Author of Give God The Glory! series & Founder of Writing For The Lord Ministries