Alliance Black History Museum

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Big S/O To Bishop Dashon Ennals And Wife Supervisor Chadney Ennals New Life All The Way From Maryland!!!

Big S/O To Brandy And Excell Tour
From Brandy: We owe a special thank you to Mrs. Dyanna Myers for our educational tour of Alliance Black History Museum and pizza lunch. We had a great time and learned quite a bit of information we never knew.
Destiny really enjoyed Amanda touring her mom's museum.

Big Thank You To Bishop Dashon Ennals/ Wife State Supervisor Chadney Ennals And New Life All The Way From Maryland

Looking for a place to take the kids this Summer? One that offer lasting knowledge and insight on Black History. Look no further, we are open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 AM -3:00PM Appointments are needed for off scheduled days. Plan your tour today by calling (330) 257-5782 Who knows? You might discover some of your family history!!!!

Marine Combat Instructor Trainer of Water Survival (MCITWS)Sht. Alyssa Triplett from EWTGPAC Coronado, CA.

In 1788, George Ellicott, a keen amateur astronomer, lent Banneker books and instruments that enabled him to construct tables predicting the positions of the stars and future solar and lunar eclipses.
Three years later, Andrew Ellicott hired Banneker to assist him in surveying the boundaries of the ten-mile square site of the future Federal capital of

In that same year, Banneker got the backing of several Philadelphia, Pennsylvania supporters of the anti-slavery cause to print his work in the popular form of an almanac.
Its 1792 publication, introduced by letters pointing out how Banneker's accomplishments disproved the myth of Negro inferiority, was a considerable success and produced twenty-seven further editions of "Banneker's Almanac" over the next five years.
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Banneker sent a manuscript copy of his work to Secretary of State Thomas
Jefferson along with a plea against the continuance of slavery and received a courteous, if evasive, reply. Though Jefferson praised Banneker as "a very respectable mathematician" in forwarding the manuscript to the notice of the French Academy of Sciences.Banneker died on October 9, 1806 and only fragments of his later writings survive, as most perished in a fire after his death.

At the event other presentations proceeded from a childrens choir singing selections and Black ministers presented scriptures.
This event symbolized the blood , sweat and tears each one of the 257 Union soldiers shedded during the war.

KFC Original Chicken Recipe came from a Black Woman!!

George Crum Potato Chip Inventor

In 1899, a Black man patented the Baby Buggy. His patent number is #405600.
William H. Richardson walked to a Baltimore patent office and received one that changed the was baby carriages are made. It was his idea to use a special joint to allow a bassinet to be turned to face the operator. He created the first reversible baby carriage. Several changes were made that allowed his carriage for the wheel to turn individually, which meant that the vehicle could turn 360 degrees in a
Smaller turning radius.

Henrietta Bowers Duterte, Amerid we First Woman Undertaker Used Coffins to Help Free Enslaved People. Henrietta Bowers was a tailor who made capes, and cloaks for the city's middle and upper classes. In 1852 at the age of 35 she married Francis Duterte, a Haitian- born local coffin maker. Together Henrietta and Francis had several children, but none survived infancy. Francis Duterte was a member of the Moral Reform Retreat, a local organization which supported the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.
After the death of her husband in 1858, Henrietta Bowers Duterte became the first woman undertaker in the U.S. She would go on to be one of Philadelphia's most prosperous Black entrepreneurs, serving both Black and white clients. Once she passed away, she owned multiple properties and made $8,000 a year - which in today's money is approx. $200,000.
Henrietta Duterte worked to abolish slavery.
She became an agent of the Underground Railroad, often hiding runways in coffins or disguising them as part of fueral processions to ensure their safe passage through the city. According to historian Charles L. Blockson: Henrietta Bowers Duterte, the first African-American undertaker in Pennsylvania, on several occasions cleverly concealed runaway slaves in caskets," Blockson wrote. "She also led slaves dressed in northern clothes from Philadelphia to freedom." Henrietta Duterte died in Philadelpma on December 23, 1903. When she died her estate included the undertaking business, hearses, horses, carriages, burial lots in four cemeteries, and houses. Her nephew continued to operate the business until his death in 1927. After the death of her husband in 1858, Mrs Bowers Duterte became the first woman undertaker in the U.S. She would go on to be one of Philadelphia's most prosperous Black entrepreneurs, serving both Black and white clients. Once she passed away, she owned multiple properties and made $8,000 a year - which in today's money is approx. $200,000.

1. New York Life's predecessor (Nautilus Insurance Company) sold slaveholders 508 policies covering slaves during the mid-1800s

2. Aetna, an insurance company insured the lives of enslaved people during the 1850's and reimbursed slave owners when they died

3. Two predecessor banks of Wachovia Corp. Georgia Railroadand Banking Company and the Bank of Charleston owned or accepted enslaved people as collateral on mortgaged property or loans

4. Between 1831 and 1865 two of JPMorgan Chase predecessor banks (Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana) accepted approximately 13,000 enslaved people as loan collateral and seized approximately 1,250 slaves when plantation owners defaulted on their loans

Cornbread has been a staple in the Black community for generations.
Chef Todd Richards wrote in his book, Soul:
A Chef's Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes, that corn has "been grown in Africa since the 1500s," it was brought there from the Americas by the Portuguese. It was a familiar ingredient, to enslaved people who engaged with Native Americans, who'd been cultivating corn for generations.

Polly Colbert, a former enslaved person from Oklahoma, recognized the strong influence that Native Americans had on the large variety of corn recipes Black people made according to U.S. History Scene.
Colbert recalled that "we cooked all sorts of Indian dishes: Tom-fuller, pashota, hickory-nut grot, tom-budha, ash-cakes and pound cakes besides vegetables and meat dishes. Corn or corn meal was used in all de Indian dishes."

Cornbread is also related to the cruelties of forced enslavement. Enslaved people were given limited food, and limited time to eat and prepare their meals. Subsequently, they used cornbread in many different ways. Cornbread was ideal for enslaved people who worked in the fields because it did not require utensils, could be easily transported, and it could last a long time.
They developed methods to stretch the ingredients, from mixing up a cornmeal mush for children to eat from a trough, en masse, to baked or fried varieties that could supplement and sop up watery stews made with vegetables and/or a bit of meat.

Cornbread was also an easy food to prepare for enslaved children.
Robert Shepherd, a former enslaved person from Georgia, recalled dinner on the plantation which was full of vegetables and cornbread, "Aunt Viney crumbled up dat bread in de trough and poured de veg tables and pot-likker [water from boiled vegetables] over it."

Techniques for preparing cornbread was passed along, made from batters that could be as straightforward as cornmeal mixed merely with salt and water. Cornmeal was essential for survival among enslaved people, which Frederick Douglass referred to as "hunger-smitten multitudes."
They took the meager rations that were granted to them and developed methods to stretch the ingredients, from mixing up a cornmeal mush, baked or fried varieties that could supplement and sop up watery stews made with vegetables and/or a bit of meat.