Recognition (Part 2)
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#5 Recognition (Part 2)
Will that day ever come
Will the story unfold
Will the world recognize
And will our children be told
About how Blacks played a part
In shaping our lands
With inventions we gave
From the strength of Black hands
Like the Gas Mask device
That Morgan had made
Saving lives in the mines
Or some Chemical raid
And those Propellers we use
In our vessels today
Thanks to George Toliver
With his massive display
The Fountain Pen had a charm
William Purvis helped to form
Isaac Johnson had a dream
And the Bike Frame was born
The Game of Golf took a turn
When Grant made the Tee
And Burr's Lawn Mower design
Keeps the grass below our knee
Thanks to Burridge and Marshman
The Typewriter gave print
And Sarah Boone's Ironing Board
Was a gem and a mint
Travel trains became safe
When train cars would connect
With the help of a Coupling
Andrew Beard would perfect
The Horseshoe and Saddle
Helped the West find its way
Commending Davis and Rick
Who put it all into play
The Elevator device
Made its functions more safe
Giving Cooper the rights
To put it all into place
Henrietta Bradberry
Had a legend so large
When she concocted the patent
For the Torpedo Discharge
There was a Genius in Dickinson
With songs of pure treasure
And his Player Piano
Gave us musical pleasure
And then Elijah McCoy
Made a Lubricating Device
And that Real McCoy phrase
Was the best in advice
There's been tons of Inventions
And Patents from Blacks
Yet recognition is something
We still seem to lack
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me.
Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my
goals, my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.--
Billie Holiday
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
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-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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