https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0 Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2021-01-29 14:41:48 UTC 2021-02-16 16:02:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1140980371 The Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery.]]> 2021-01-29 15:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1140980371 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1141007575 The testimonies and stories  of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced. The individuals in this repository who travelled within West Africa as well as those who experienced the “Middle Passage,” which is often seen as a defining moment in the slavery experience. Sometimes these accounts are referred to as “slave narratives”, such testimonies more accurately reflect "freedom narratives" individuals were born free and subsequently regained their freedom, and includes individuals who were never enslaved. ]]> 2021-01-29 15:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1141007575 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1141035199 https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/curious-history-slavery-west-africa
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https://www.britannica.com/place/western-Africa]]> 2021-01-29 15:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1141035199 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1153893535 1.Carter G. Woodson started black history month in February because Abraham Lincoln and frederick Douglass both birthday, he started black history month
2.Phillis Wheatley was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published.
3. The ban on interracial marriage in the U.S. was overturned because of the couple named Mildred and Richard in 1967.
4.Billie Holiday’s famous “Strange Fruit” was originally a poem written by a school teacher.
5. John Baxter Taylor was the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal.]]> 2021-02-02 14:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1153893535 karon_johnson https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1169200527 To assist with making sure your facts are specific, include dates, years, names and locations. If you're using a quote make sure you have used quotation marks.

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John Baxter won a Olympic gold medal in what?]]> 2021-02-05 16:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1169200527 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1207519237 2021-02-16 16:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/h6iviqg8k4hguml0/wish/1207519237