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This book, called The Pride and The Journey, presents a tiny portion of the black threads woven into the tapestry of world culture. The Pride and The Journey takes the reader on a never-to-be-forgotten trip spanning one hundred centuries of civilization. It introduces the reader to the ancient Africans who charted the paths the stars took in outer space to the modern Africans who traveled among the stars in outer space. It was the ancient African women who created trigonometry, which enabled their men to build the pyramids, and it was an African man who gave algebra to the world.

Travel from the beautiful university cities of the ancestral home of African Americans and discover their degradation in the “New World” as enslaved prisoners of war. There were rigid laws preventing them from learning to read and write. Yet the men who risked punishment produced hundreds of inventions. Among them were the electric railway system, the telephone transmitter, and the camera that captures the colors of far off planets.

The Pride and The Journey highlights the little-known facts of the lives of world-famous entertainers and educators, poets and publishers, politicians and philosophers, authors and athletes – all descendents of the kidnapped African who conquered where others would have perished.

Through the intimate lives of Black soldiers and sailors, learn the real story of why the North won the Civil War, how Blacks kept the union together, and why the Anti-Slavery Society of France first sent the Statue of Liberty over in the form of a Black woman.

Each biographical sketch features a portrait of a hero. The Pride and The Journey should be the basis of every home's library.

Edward W. Robinson, Jr., J.D.

Featured Bios

President Barack Obama

The story of our 44th president begins with modest roots, as Barack H. Obama, II, grew up with a focus on education and the foundation of a close middle-class family. Born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, Obama expediently learned the values of service towards each other. His maternal grandparents served prominently in his upbringing. His grandfather served under General Patton, and his grandmother prospered in local banking.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in rural Umata, Transkei, South Africa. He was the son of a Tembu national chief advisor. After the death of his father, at the age of twelve, Nelson Mendela was sent to live with the chief of the Tembu nation. In his late teens, Nelson Mendela renounced his hereditary right to the chiefdom and entered college in pursuit of a law degree.

Garrett A. Morgan

Garrett A. Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, on March 4, 1877 and later moved to Cleveland where he spent most of his youth. He played an integral role in the shaping of America. One day he witnessed a two-car collision on a main intersection. Two people were badly injured and the driver rendered unconscious. Morgan pondered the dilemma for awhile and later devised the method that would eliminate the problem. He invented the three-color traffic signal, which ultimately became the pervasive traffic light. He sold the patent rights to General Electric for $40,000.

Stephen Atkin Swails

Stephen Swails was born on February 23, 1832 in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a boatman and became the first Black to break through the barrier of race.

James Forten

James Forten was an honorable, industrious, and committed activist dedicated to the antislavery forces at work during colonial America. Born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a powder boy on Stephen Decatur’s Royal Louis at the age of fourteen. He participated in victories over several English vessels.

Carter Godwin Woodson

With the establishment of “Negro History Week” in 1926, Carter Godwin Woodson earned the designation as “The Father of Negro History.” Negro History Week later turned into nationally celebrated “Black History Month.”

Ahmos

One of the greatest mathematicians of all times is the African scribe, Ahmos, who lived approximately 3,700 years ago. The World Book Encyclopedia credits him with creating algebra with these words, “. . . the first definite traces of algebra were found in the writings of the Egyptian, Ahmos, who lived about 1700 B.C. or earlier. Much later the Greeks added their contributions to its development.”

Makeda, Queen of Sheba

Makeda, known in history as the Queen of Sheba, ascended the Ethiopian throne in 1005 B.C., presiding over a huge Ethiopia that stretched from Southern (Upper) Egypt and Ethiopia across parts of Arabia, Syria, and India.