Jonas

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"Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain."

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@JohnnyChapple @JJones816 Me too 🙋🏾‍♂️

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@PERKDAWG22 That’s more like it

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@PERKDAWG22 Crazy this the first trailer we got

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After the U.S. Government failed to uphold promises to relocate the Black Seminoles to the Indian Territory, Horse returned to Mexico. He died there in 1882, attempting to gain additional land rights for his people.

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Black History Lesson of The Day

John Horse

Born in 1812 in Florida, John Horse (Juan Caballo/Cavallo, and often Gopher John) rose to become one of the most successful black freedom fighters in American history. Born into slavery and was of African, Indian, and Spanish descent

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Following the conclusion of the American Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved people, Horse and many of the Black Seminoles subsequently moved to Texas, where many had become U.S. Army scouts. Although he did not enlist, Horse served as an interpreter and negotiator

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By 1963, she published her own book, Garvey and Garveyism and later published two collections of essays, Black Power in America and The Impact of Garvey in Africa and Jamaica.  Amy Jacques died on July 25, 1973, in her birthplace of Kingston, Jamaica.

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Black History Lesson of The Day
Amy Jacques Garvey

Became the second wife of famous United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey in July 1922, only a few months after his divorce from his first wife, Amy Ashwood.

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In 1944 she wrote “A Memorandum Correlative of Africa, West Indies and the Americas,” which she used to convince U.N. representatives to adopt an African Freedom Charter.