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AFRICAN KING SERIES by International Photographer James C. Lewis AFRICAN KING SERIES | King Tenkamenin of Ghana (1037-1075 AD) Through careful management of gold trade across the Sahara, Tenkamenin’s empire flourished economically yet his greatest strength was in government. He listened to his people and provided justice for all of them. His principles of democratic monarchy and religious tolerance make him one of the great models of African rule. | Model: Ebai Ayuk-Enow
AFRICAN KING SERIES by International Photographer James C. Lewis | Taharqa (710-664 BC) was King of the Ancient Egyptian 25th dynasty and Ruler of the Kingdom of Kush, which was located in Northern Sudan & Ethiopia. He is also mentioned in Biblical references - Scholars have identified him with Tirhakah, King of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9). Model: Elmorris Dukes
AFRICAN KINGS by International Photographer James C. Lewis | Pharaoh Akhenaten meaning "Effective for Aten" known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten. Husband of Nefertiti and father of King "Tut" Tutankhamun. | model: Don James II
AFRICAN KING SERIES by International Photographer James C. Lewis | King or Oba (as it is known in West Africa) Sunni Ali Beer (circa 1442-1492) built the largest most powerful empire in West Africa during his 28-year reign. With a remarkable army,he won many battles, conquered many lands, seized trade routes and took villages to build the Songhay empire into a major center of commerce, culture and Moslem scholarship. | Model: Tony Jackson
AFRICAN KINGS by International Photographer James C. Lewis | Mansa Kankan Musa (1280 – 1337) more commonly known as Mansa Musa was the tenth Mansa, which translates as "King of Kings" or "Emperor", of the wealthy West African Mali Empire. He is also documented as the RICHEST PERSON TO HAVE EVER LIVED...speculated to have been worth $400 Billion dollars in today's times. | Model: Travis Cure
10 African Kings and Queens Whose Stories Must be Told on Film
mansa-musa / A Moor who's story is definitely worth being told being noted as one of the richest men of his time & practically our too being worth over $400 billion ... hit this link and check it out
Meet the 14th Century African king who was richest man in the world of all time (adjusted for inflation!)
List of the wealthiest people ever - adjusted for inflation, includes african kings, wealthy normans that helped invade England, John of Gaunt, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, etc... Interesting little list to supplement history lesson
After the attacks on 9/11, many claimed it was the 1st instance of a terrorist assault from the air on American civilians. Such assertions are only true if one discounts the experiences of Blacks living in Tulsa in 1921. After a rumor spread that a young Black man raped a white woman, a mob of white men formed a lynching gang. The Black community stepped forward to defend the man an armed confrontation ensued. Later 6 biplanes were dispatched, which dropped incendiary bombs on Black residents.
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“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
Stunning pictures of men and women who were born into slavery and photographed more than seventy years after being freed
The last faces of the liberators: Stunning pictures of men and women who liberated themselves from enslavement and were photographed more than 70 years afterwards. This coming June 2014 we will be celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the liberation of Spotsylvania, Virginians. (Although by 1864 60% had already self-liberated, the 23rd USCT came down to liberate the rest in May of 1864, including Lindsay and Joseph Minor!)
.Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is known as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She was born in Tylertown, Mississippi but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bridges Hall’s parents volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system and on November 14,1960, at the age of six, she entered William Frantz Elementary School. This was commemorated in the Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.