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Pam Grier in Coffy, 1973.
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Nathaniel and Viola Stewart were a trailblazing couple who left an enduring mark in African American history. They met on a blind date in 1945, and after falling in love, were married for more than 50 years.

Viola Duvall Stewart, born June 30, 1919, in Charleston, was an unsung educational justice advocate and civil rights pioneer. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1941 from Howard University, where Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche was one of her instructors. While a teacher at Burke High School in Charleston, Viola was recruited by the South Carolina NAACP to be the plaintiff in an African American teachers’ equalization salary case. Her case went to trial in 1944 and she was represented by NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall with federal judge J. Waites Waring presiding over the case. In less than 15 minutes, without either side making an argument, the case was decided in favor of the plaintiff, Viola Duvall.

The case, Duvall v. J.F. Seignous et al., led to other lawsuits that challenged inequities in African American teacher salaries across South Carolina. Later in Viola’s career, she became an itinerate special education instructor with visually impaired children in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, public schools. She retired in 1981.

Mrs. Stewart passed away on Dec. 10, 2010. Nathaniel C. Stewart, Viola’s husband, was born July 8, 1922, in Ft. Motte. He earned the rank of second lieutenant, in the 99th Pursuit Squadron of the United States Army Air Corps, as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. He was an integral part of the successful effort that fought and defeated foreign fascism and racial segregation in the United States military. After his discharge from the Corps in 1946, he went to work at the Philadelphia General Hospital as a staff pharmacist. Once promoted to Director of Pharmacy, he was designated as the first African American to hold a senior administration position at the hospital.

Stewart died on April 6, 2000. Participants in the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” address, the Stewarts remained active in the civil rights movement as NAACP Life Members. In 2010, their lifetime commitment to justice and equality were recognized by the Honorable James E. Clyburn in the Congressional Record.
 
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Marvin Gaye, holding his happy looking four year old son Frankie, on their arrival at London's Heathrow airport from San Francisco (1980)

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Marvin Gaye, holding his happy looking four year old son Frankie, on their arrival at London's Heathrow airport from San Francisco (1980)
 
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Frederick Jones
(1893–1961)

Frederick Jones was an inventor best known for the development of refrigeration equipment used to transport food and blood during World War II.
Who Was Frederick Jones?
After a challenging childhood, Frederick Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound and automobiles. Portable refrigeration units developed by Jones helped the United States military carry food and blood during World War II.
Early Life
Frederick McKinley Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 17, 1893 to a white father and black mother. His mother deserted him when he was a young child. His father struggled to raise him on his own, but by the time Frederick was 7 years old, he sent young Jones to live with a priest in Kentucky. Two years later, his father died. This living situation lasted for two years. At the age of 11, with minimal education under his belt, Jones ran away to fend for himself. He returned to Cincinnati and found work doing odd jobs, including as a janitor in a garage where he developed a knack for automobile mechanics. He was so good, he became foreman of the shop. He later moved on, again taking odd jobs where he could. In 1912, he landed in Hallock, Minnesota, where he obtained a job doing mechanical work on a farm.
Inventions
Jones had talent for and an interest in mechanics. He read extensively on the subject in addition to his daily work, educating himself in his spare time. By the time he was twenty, Jones was able to secure an engineering license in Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I where he was often called upon to make repairs to machines and other equipment. After the war, he returned to the farm.
It was on the Hallock farm that Jones educated himself further in electronics. When the town decided to fund a new radio station, Jones built the transmitter needed to broadcast its programming. He also developed a device to combine moving pictures with sound. Local businessman Joseph A. Numero subsequently hired Jones to improve the sound equipment he produced for the film industry.
 
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Casca said:
On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Messman Charles Jackson French swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark infested waters. Hero
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French only received a letter of commendation from an admiral.
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This shit needs to be revisited. A damned Letter of Commendation is a travesty. :angry:
If not the Medal of Honor, those actions are worthy of a Navy Cross to say the least.
 
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blackpepper said:
Is it too late, or could he still sue that school for racial discrimination? Has that ever been tried?
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I don't know. I imagine that the Brotha went to another school, but I wonder if Emory can be pressured into making the sort of reparations available the way Georgetown did and offer placement for the family members.

CACs, coons, and others are quick to say that shit like this was a long time ago when it was in many people's lifetime. Hell, it's only 5 years before I was born and I have older siblings that are as many as 10 years older than me.
 
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Shaka54 said:
I don't know. I imagine that the Brotha went to another school, but I wonder if Emory can be pressured into making the sort of reparations available the way Georgetown did and offer placement for the family members.

CACs, coons, and others are quick to say that shit like this was a long time ago when it was in many people's lifetime. Hell, it's only 5 years before I was born and I have older siblings that are as many as 10 years older than me.
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Yeah I've got lots of people in my family that lived through that time. I was born up north and my mother has stories of black people being openly discriminated against (herself included) and much worse in a time and place you wouldn't expect it. Many of the people that did it are still alive, most often very old and frail, but still alive. If they were sued now for their conduct back then, I believe they'd just say it wasn't illegal until 1968. It would still make a great good story though, IMO.
 
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Simply_Black said:
Marvin Gaye, holding his happy looking four year old son Frankie, on their arrival at London's Heathrow airport from San Francisco (1980)

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Marvin Gaye, holding his happy looking four year old son Frankie, on their arrival at London's Heathrow airport from San Francisco (1980)
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That's a big 4 yr old
 

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