FREEDOM

Fredrick Douglass was advisor to the pres.

President Lincoln tend to do what he said

68 Olympics Tommie & John

salute to Black power as soon as they won

standing on the podium fist in the air

they were suspended but they didn’t care

2008 an the first black man

to ever win primary Election

beat Mrs. Clinton and John McCain with honor

First Black President Barack Obama

1770 freedom fight

Crispus Attucks was the first to die

Black man shed his blood for the cause

Loved his country & paid the final cost

Vermont was the very first state

1777 to end slavery

Back in 67 Mr. Thurgood done it

first black American Supreme court justice

Robert Lawrence set his sights to the stars

First black ever in the world Astronaut

Dealt with the criticism dealt with the hate

Rose above it all cuz the call is great!

One small woman played a huge big part

Didn’t move to the back of the bus that’s Rosa Parks

And the train keeps coming Here the proud whistle blowing saying…

Freedom Freedom Oh Lord my train is coming round.

First black doctor in 1783

Brother James Derham persevered with Degrees

Stokely Carmichael yes did what he did

started the Black power movement in 66

same year Bobby Seale & Brother Huey P.

in Oakland, brought us the black panther party

Started serving lunches, & preaching to the crowds

Carried mad weapons made the people feel Proud

France was the first no one did it before

To stop trading slaves 1794

Asa Hilliard was the first black dude

To put black content into the schools

Before that nobody knew what we do

Now a days it still ain’t really much improvement

Marcus Garvey was the first do a lot

UNIA was one of many things he brought

Benjiman Banneker  first wooden clock

Back in 55 our brother named Emmett till

Just whistled at a white women – brutally killed

1904 Atlanta race riots,

whites massacred blacks police stayed quiet

dey ghost still living & the blood still talks

Freedom train coming don’t nobody walk

1970 Mississippi on the news

first black kids enrolled in an all white school

now days you wouldn’t believe how it was

soldiers with rifles had to walk em to the door

Harriet Tubman freed 200 slaves

George Washington Carver best known scientist

Bill cosby 20 million

Oprah winfrey

Mlk holiday when every state agreed

1993

George Bush vetoed the civil rights bill

She said “I don’t have time to be polite”

Maxine Waters brought the HIV fight

Sally Hemmings  Thomas Jefferson’s mistress

Black and whites been deep from the beginning