Homer Adolf Plessy purchased a ticket from New Orleans to Covington and took a seat in the “white” section of the East Louisiana Railroad Company train. Railroad officials ordered Plessy to the “colored” car. When he refused, a police officer forcibly ejected Plessy and hurried him off to the parish jail in New Orleans. Officials charged Plessy with violating a recently enacted state law—one of many Jim Crow laws enacted in the late 1800s as whites moved to entrench their power in state governments–that barred persons from occupying rail cars other than those to which their race had been assigned.
Before there was Johnnie Cochran, there was Charles Hamilton Houston.
Below is a TBS video made in its 1991 Black History Month Series. In this video, Barack Obama, then the first black president of Harvard Law Review, renders homage to Charles Hamilton Houston another great black ancestor, a legal legend who made the way and shone the light for many of alive today.
King Kenneth Dubh: 962 – 997 AD
Dub mac Maíl Coluim (Modern Gaelic: Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim) sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm Niger, “the Black” (died 967) was king of Alba.
This is the icon of Emperor Constantine the Great of Byzantium, the first Christian Emperor of Rome.
An icon is a religious depiction of the exact image of the subject. An icon not only captures the true physical attributes of the person, it captures also the spiritual essence of the person.
As it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end:
Black Hebrew Israelites in Moorish Spain anticipating Bob Marley and the Wailers?
Jamming…
Anastasia was the daughter of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and half sister of Emperor Constantine I. Emperor Constantine proposed marrying her to form an alliance with Bassianus; however, Bassianus was found to be plotting against Constantine and the marriage was called off.
Slavery continued until 1945 when Nazi Germany was defeated and 10 million white slaves were liberated by the U.S. soldiers, many of whom were African Americans.
Before the time of Elizabeth the Ist of England and contemporary with her time, England was home to thousands of Moors, living peacefully, carrying on different types of profession and trade, and contributing to every fabric of society as they had always done in England since centuries earlier.