So, now I need a couple third or fourth grade teachers or principals to be Beta Readers and provide a review. Any suggestions?
It’s important, at least for me and my project, to provide teachers with content and to show them that incorporating Black History into their present curriculum isn’t difficult. I want to share that teaching Black History all year can be as easy as teaching about Thomas Edison or the railroad. You see, there are no instances in history where there wasn’t an African American presence of some kind. Really – think about it.
So, once the beta readers have completed reading and provide feedback. My next step, well actually while waiting, is to launch a crowdfunding campaign. Yep – being successful requires help. And my goal is to be successful – to put the books into as many children’s hands as I can and into as many libraries that I can. I’ll keep ya posted on that.
Oh by the way, the answer to the question in the blog about the first Black person to have a television and radio show was Nat King Cole.
My little tidbit for today is about George Washington Carver. Do you know how many products he created from peanuts? OMG!!!
Check this list: http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/legacy_of_fame/george_w_carver/carver_peanut_products.aspx
And I found this bit of info here: http://www.biography.com/news/george-washington-carver-facts-national-peanut-month\
Carver was a friend, colleague or associate to a veritable “Who’s Who” of the 20th century. This began in 1896, when Booker T. Washington hired him to oversee the agricultural department at the Tuskegee Institute. Between 1919 and 1926, Carver corresponded with John Harvey Kellogg (of cereal fame), as they shared an interest in food and health. Carver and automaker Henry Ford quickly struck up a friendship after meeting in 1937. Carver would stop by Ford’s laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, and Ford himself visited Tuskegee in Alabama.
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