Osborne Celebrates Black History Month
Please enjoy this year’s excerpts from Osborne’s collection of Actual Factuals, daily accounts of Black history written over the month of February by Monica Tolliver, Office Manager, with contributions from Andrea Goupalsingh, Program Director, Nya Williams, Program Coordinator, and Devin Deane, Court Advocate. Actual Factuals recognize and celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of Black people throughout the diaspora.
Read all of February's Actual Factuals here.Selected excerpts for Black History Month
Charlotte E. Ray
“Charlotte E. Ray is a trailblazer. Her achievement as the first black woman to graduate from Howard University Law School, and her work as a lawyer, inspired other women to follow in her courageous footsteps. Her work as an educator and work in the advancement of black women is significant and laudable given the unrelenting discrimination she faced. Her legacy stands worthy of recognition in Black History Month, and every month.”
John Berry Meachum
“John Berry Meachum valued education, and he was also a religious man so he founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827, where Black abolitionists taught up to 300 students, providing a religious and secular education to free and enslaved Black St. Louisans, never charging those who couldn’t afford the fee.”
Marcus Garvey
“Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born Black activist and a bulwark for the worldwide organization of people of African descent. He planted the seeds of Black pride and determination wherever he went. In 1914, Mr. Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, or UNIA in Jamaica. UNIA sought to acquire economic power for Black people and to infuse a sense of community and group feeling among Black people.”
Claudia Jones
“Claudia Vera Jones was a Trinidad and Tobago-born political activist, visionary, and pioneering journalist who dedicated her life toward the liberation of working people across the world. She is known for her analysis on race, gender, class, and imperialism. “