Tantalizing Truths

We should emphasize not Black History, but the Blacks in history.  What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.  ~Carter Woodson, 1926

Almeric Christian is a pioneering lawyer and judge. Christian, was born in the Virgin Islands. He was appointed a circuit court judge for the Third Circuit, and then to chief judge.

David Hamilton Jackson, was an educator, editor, labor leader, lawyer, judge, and legislator.  A housing project in Christiansted has been named in his honor.  And his birthday is a U.S. Virgin Island Holiday

Edward Wilmot Blyden  was one of the leading figures in the formation of the Pan-Africanism movement. Blyden was born in the Virgin Islands and later moved to Liberia.

Roy Innis is one of the foremost civil rights leaders in the United States. Innis, born on St. Croix

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead.  The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.