Sharing black accomplishments, authors, quotes...

Wow. This is great! Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves
Bass Reeves might interest you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Leland
Mickey Leland

Alexander Dumas's mother was an enslaved African woman. You might be able to find information on her.

Euphemia Lofton Haynes became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1943.
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February 1, 1960: At 4:30pm 4 African-American students initiated the sit-in movement by sitting down at Woolworth's lunch counter at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The four freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University– Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), and David Richmond – stayed until the store closed.
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I was gonna suggest Bass Reeves too, but someone beat me too it.

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Mary Fields, known as “Stage Coach Mary” was the first African-American mail carrier. Interesting life to be heard here.

Madame C J Walker

You can only highlight Blacks that accomplished something? What about the white Protestant Evangelical abolitionists in the North that fomented the ire of the Southern plantation owners with leaflets condemning the sin of slavery? That was part of Black history, in that it ended in Emancipation. Why not give credit where credit is due. The current focus of trying to find Blacks in history also might imply that no one was on their side. Try researching who was involved in the founding of the NAACP. Were there any whites (a few Jews I thought).

You can also research the change from just 100 years ago when Blacks were not one monolithic group, reflecting the Southern "one drop" rule. The whole Black history thing could also reflect a political postion of maintaing Blacks as a voting block, rather than a diverse ethnic group that is bi-racial, with all sorts of mixtures, not just white. Or, is the truth persona non grata?

Foof.

I'm not trying to impress on our students the universal truth regarding race, or the whole story around a kidnapped peoples' social and political evolution in their captors' land, etc. If I were to have that goal on my plate, I'd agree your first ideas were powerful.

I'm modeling respect for a group of people who don't get their fair share of respect in my country, and hopefully introducing interesting, worthwhile people to students for further research.

I'll choose a quote or a very brief profile for (hopefully) an artistic corner on a display in a classroom. I can't "teach" it, but I can answer questions by interested students. I'd like to give them a name and an idea, and hope they find their own truths.
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I have what I need now.

I'm grateful to those who helped.

That's a tribute she "so richly deserves"..

Well, we might as well mention the three African-American women featured in Hidden Figures, just out this year.

Katherine G. Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson

I just watched the movie Saturday, well-worth seeing.

This guy almost stayed under the radar permanently.

I'm so thrilled to have learned about him, and more so, to see a statue going up to honor him.

If we had more monuments celebrating the freedom and achievement of black Americans, it may give black Americans more of a sense of equal shareholding in their home. One little chink against systemic less-than status. We should have so many more. How many statues / memorials do we have of black Americans on public property?

Meet Octavius Valentine Catto:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/octavius-valentine-catto-receives-special-honor-in-philadelphia/

"If you can, you must."

Deshaun Watson gave his first NFL game check to help a few familiar faces in need. #HoustonStrong

He gave the money to three employees who had been affected by the storm.

This is wonderful. I was nearly stepped on by Deshaun at a Clemson exhibition game this year. He was visiting, signing autographs.

How lovely of him.