Celebrating Black History Month

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Currently is Valentine's Day. I love Valentine's Day. I'm a hoodwink for all of the "Hallmark Holidays," as my husband refers to natural life like Valentine's Day, Grandparent's Day, Mother's Day and common Father's Day. He's positive these holidays were "bent" to stimulate suckers like me to drop resources on worthless heart formed help and sweetie. I can see his point but, that doesn't get him off the hook. I still love Valentine's Day and I'm in suspense for a sweetie heart similar to this afternoon.

We all convene February represents no matter which extend overweight than Valentine's Day. February is about celebrating leadership. The leadership of our Presidents and of the leadership of great African Americans. Taking part in the comprehensive month of February, we smudge Black Full-blooded Month, a federally legendary, nationwide person that provides the cause for all Americans to mull over on the overweight roles that African Americans wave around played in the influential of U.S. Full-blooded.

For the taking into account two get-up-and-go, the Sodexo Careers Blog has overall Black Full-blooded Month with guest blog posts from Sodexo's leaders who mutual their career experiences and great endeavors. Organize rendezvous we heard from Veronica Harville, Wickedness Go Customer Dwell in and the President of our African American Regime Gathering place (AALF) Snare Set and Mel Maycole, All-embracing Chief for Sodexo's Artless Military. And in 2009, we heard from Calvin Johnson, (CJ), Go, Sodexo's Hospitals, Aster Angagaw, Advanced Wickedness Go, Go Mount, Sodexo Dealing Military, Mike Grey, Vice-President, Operations, Sodexo Train Military, and James Taylor, Go, Sodexo Advanced Military

As I was exploring options for celebrating the month this rendezvous, I came corner to corner a 101 Press out Substantiation about Black Full-blooded buzz by biography.com. Stage are 366 records in total on this list and I read every one of them over the weekend. Stage are so compound examples of achievements of Black Americans about history that it was hard to pick a few to allocation. Bottom are the first 25 records on this list. You can read the comprehensive list of 366 records on the biography.com web site. You will find an interactive time line on this web site that is good-looking refurbish aloof too.

* Nathaniel Alexander was the first to reveal the downfall be in charge. His new idea was alleged to be used in schools, churches and at large social gatherings.
* Andrew Jackson Wool imaginary the "Jenny Coupler" in 1897, a method which legitimate train cars to hook themselves together following they are bumped into one numerous. The method saved the lives of compound browbeat effort, who by yourself had the ghastly job of hooking the stirring cars together by make the grade.
* Henry Blair, the second African-American to hold a reveal, imaginary a corn bug planter in 1834 and a cotton planter in 1836. Blair may possibly not read or marshal and signed his reveal with an X.
* Otis Boykin imaginary electronic proceed devices for guided bombs, IBM computers, and the proceed unit for a leader.
* C.B. Brooks imaginary the street sweeper in 1896. It was a motor vehicle prepared with brooms.
* Henry Shadows bent what is now sure as a "treasury", a metal job to store resources and majestic entry permit that may possibly be safe with a key.
* George Carruthers imaginary the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 fling. This new idea exposed new skin in Earth's far-outer appearance and deep-space relevant from the incline of the through the ceiling quality. Carruthers was inducted into the Birthplace Inventor's Hall of Protrusion in 2003.
* In 1897, African-American inventor Alfred Cralle patented the first ice comfort anecdote. His chief tool rubble in wide use, common today.
* African-American prescribed planner, David Crosthwait, Jr. bent the heating systems for the Rockefeller Investment and New York's Telephone lines Urban Music Hall.
* David Crosthwait, Jr., who bent the heating system for New York City's Telephone lines Urban Music Hall, holds 39 U.S. patents and 80 international patents pertaining to heating, refrigeration and heat up adaptable systems.
* Parcel Dean lay aside with his co-inventor Dennis Moelle bent a microcomputer system with bus proceed way for lateral management devices. This new idea allows the use of workstation plug-ins like revolve drives, speakers, scanners, etc.
* African-American doctor Charles R. Drew is on a regular basis attributed with the new idea of the first universal blood with the exception of.
* The first sociology allotment in the U.S. was obstinate by tutor and benign care order leader, W.E.B. Du Bois.
* Sarah E. Goode imaginary a bed that folded up into a sideboard in 1885. Antithesis to popular perception, she was not the first African-American woman to hold a reveal, but the second.
* In 1899, African-American golf fan Dr. George Franklin Acknowledge expected a reveal for the world's first golf tee. Acknowledge, nevertheless, never marketed his new idea, fairly altruistic the tees publicized to friends and guy golfers.
* Thomas L. Jennings was the first African-American to hold a reveal in 1821. It was for a dry-cleaning process in 1821. He used the resources earned from the reveal to show domestic out of slavery and support abolitionist causes.
* Lonnie G. Johnson, an planner who performed metier system tool for NASA, imaginary the Massive Deluge river gun-the number one selling toy in America in 1991.
* Frederick Jones acceptable over 60 patents, with furthermost of them pertaining to refrigeration. His cell air conditioner was used in Ground War II to assert pills and blood serum.
* Dr. Maulana Karenga bent the African-American feast, Kwanzaa, in 1966.
* Full-blooded has attributed Thomas Edison with the new idea of the bright bulb, but minus people convene about Lewis Latimer's innovations near its entrance. Until Latimer's process formaking carbon strand, Edison's bright bulbs would only zoom for a few report. Latimer's strand burned for something else hours.
* Joseph Lee imaginary a bread-making piece of equipment that dissimilar the ingredients and kneaded the money in 1895.
* John Comparable imaginary the pencil sharpener in 1897.
* Thomas J. Martin patented a fire extinguisher in 1872.
* Bridget "Biddy" Mason founded the Earliest African Methodist Episcopalian church in Los Angeles.
* Jan Ernst Matzeliger imaginary the Shoe Lingering piece of equipment, which united the elder part of the shoe to the unattached, a punctilious process that was as a matter of course accomplished by make the grade. This new idea revolutionized the shoe making industry.

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