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Born April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in
the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still, I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past, that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.
Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.
People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.
Here she is, age 70, still absolutely elegant and poised.
1488 – The Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Diaz landed at Mossal Bay in the Cape, the first European known to have landed on the southern extremity of Africa.
1690 – The first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts colony. The currency was used to pay soldiers that were fighting in the war against Quebec.
1783 – Spain recognized the independence of the United States.
1809 – The territory of Illinois was created.
1815 – The world’s first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1862 – Thomas Edison printed the “Weekly Herald” and distributed it to train passengers traveling between Port Huron and Detroit, MI. It was the first time a newspaper had been printed on a train.
1869 – Edwin Booth opened his new theatre in New York City. The first production was “Romeo and Juliet”.
1900 – In Frankfort, KY, gubernatorial candidate William Goebels died from an assasin’s bullet wounds. On August 18, 1900, Ex-Sec. of State Caleb Powers was found guilt of conspiracy to murder Gov. Goebels.
1913 – The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.
1916 – In Ottawa, Canada’s original parliament buildings burned down.
1917 – The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel began service. It is the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet.
1927 – The Federal Radio Commission was created when U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill.
1941 – In Vichy, France, the Nazis used force to restore Pierre Laval to office.
1945 – Russia agreed to enter World War II against Japan.
1946 – The first issue of “Holiday” magazine appeared.
1947 – Percival Prattis became the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC. He worked for “Our World” in New York City.
1951 – Dick Button won the U.S. figure skating title for the sixth time.
1951 – The Tennessee Williams play, “The Rose Tattoo”, opened on Broadway in New York.
1966 – The first rocket-assisted controlled landing on the Moon was made by the Soviet space vehicle Luna IX.
1969 – At the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO.
1972 – The first Winter Olympics in Asia were held at Sapporo, Japan.
1984 – Challenger 4 was launched as the tenth space shuttle mission.
1989 – South African politician P.W. Botha unwillingly resigned both party leadership and the presidency after suffering a stroke.
1998 – Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. since 1984.
1998 – In Italy, a U.S. Military plane hit a cable causing the death of 20 skiers on a lift.
2009 – Eric Holder was sworn in as attorney general. He was the first African-American to hold the post.
2010 – The Alberto Giacometti sculpture L’Homme qui marche sold for $103.7 million.
2015 – The British House of Commons voted to approve letting scientist create babies from the DNA of three people.
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