The following 7 quotes, many of which resonated with me while reading, will make you stop and think. “Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.” Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book “Prosperity is ephemeral; because if a man behaves with patience and circumspection and the time and circumstances are such that this method is called for, he will prosper; but if time and circumstances change he will be ruined because he does not change his … [Read more...]
Black History Month – Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute and Author of Up From Slavery
February 8, 2012 by
This month is Black History Month and today we profile Booker T Washington, and follow up with other profiles of people who contributed to black history. Born into slavery, Booker T Washington was one of the leading African American figures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In 1881, on the recommendation of his mentor Samuel Armstrong, a former Union Army general, Washington was placed in charge of the Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute. He received $2,000 from the government for salaries, but there was no campus, buildings, students or staff. When Washington died in 1915, Tuskegee Institute had 1,500 students enrolled, … [Read more...]
Black History Month – Madam C J Walker, Operated the Largest Black-Owned Business in the Early Twentieth Century
February 1, 2012 by
This month is Black History Month and we will start off with Madam C J Walker, and follow up with other profiles of people who contributed to black history. “Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face. I have been trying to tell you what I am doing. I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. I was promoted from there to the washtub. Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton. I have built my own factory on my own ground.” Madam C J Walker at Booker T … [Read more...]
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