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an Eastern Airlines advertisement in 1988 with a painting of Nubians in the Tomb of Seti I dating back to around 1300 BC.

The Bottom Text:

History,its been said,is biography. Yet some of the worlds greatest biographies,black biographies,are all but lost in history. Sundiata. Mansa Musa. Sunni Ali. Askia Muhammad. Not Exactly household names,but they were honored in their time as leaders of empires. Yet it appears their honors have vanished among with their empires. But they werent the end of black history. Only the beginning. Because black history is an ongoing entity;a progression of brilliant biographies still being written. And this time,they wont be lost.

American history could itself said to have begun with a piece of black history when the death of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre made him the first of America’s 600,000 war dead. Dr Daniel Hale Williams made black history,if not world history,when he performed the first successful open heart surgery. Edward M Bouchet made history when Yale made him the first black in America to be awarded a Doctorate. James B Parsons went into the history books as the first black federal judge in the continental U.S. Charlotte Ray joined black history when she became America’s first black woman lawyer. Madame C.J. Walker, when she became America’s first millionaire black woman. Black biographies have made and will continue to make black history in more cities than even Eastern Airlines flies to,wich is more cities in Latin America, Florida, And the Caribbean than any other airline. Thats alot of good cities. But thats alot of history,too.

YES!