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1968-02-15 Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch of the NAACP Page 3

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(Facts, cont'd) 

rich treasures among which was the famous statue of the goddess, Nana. Later it became the capital of Cyrus the Great and Darius. Susa is the Shushan of the Bible where Esther sought the favor of King Ahaserus of Persia and Ethiopa.

*Cheops, a Negro built the Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is 451 feet high, has 2,500,000 blocks of granite, each two and a half tons, covers 13 acres, took 100,000 men thirty years to build and was completed in 3730 B. C. 

*Piankhi, a ruler of Ancient Egypt, left his country in Central Africa and conquered all of that country to the mouth of the Nile in 750 B.C.

* Negroes lived in America thousands of years before Columbus. Central American monuments show numerous carving of them as gods. When Columbus came to the New World, Negroes had been crossing from Africa to South America a distance of 1600 miles. The first white men to reach the American mainland, tell of seeing Negroes. Columbus who visited South America said that he had heard of them there.

*Imhotep of Ancient Egypt, was the real Father of Medicine. He lived about 2300 B.C. Greece and Rome had their knowledge of medicine from him. In Rome he was worshipped as the Prince of Peace in the form of a black man. His Ethiopian portraits show him as a Negro. Imhotep was also Prime Minister to King Zoser as well as the foremost architect of his time. The saying, "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die," has been traced to him. Hippocrates lived 2,000 years after Imhotep.

*France has had six colored Cabinet Ministers - Severiano de Heredia, 1887; Senator Henri Lemery, 191-1918; and 1934; Alcide Delmont. 1928;  Blaise Diagne, 1931; Gratien Candace, 1932; Gaston Monnerville, 1937. De Heredia, as Minister of Public Works, built some of France's finest roads.

*The oldest and most noted statue in the world bears the face of a Negro. It is the Sphinx of Gizeh, which was worshipped as Horus, or Harmachis, the Sun-God of Light and Life. It was erected about 5,000 B.C.

* There were three African Popes of Rome; Victor  (189-199 A.D.);  Melchiades  9311-312); and St. Gelasius  496 A.D.). It was Melchiades  who led Christianity to final triumph against the Roman Empire.
 
*The celestial saint of Germany is St. Maurice, a Negro. While in command of a Roman legion in Gaul (Switzerland), in 287 A.D., he refused to attack the Christians when ordered to do so by the Emperor Maximian Herculius, for which he was killed. His picture is in many German cathedrals and museums sometimes with the German eagle on his head.

* In 218 B. C., Hannibal, a Negro, marching through conquered territory in Spain and France, performed the astounding feat of crossing the Alps. With only 26,000 of his original force of 82,000 men remaining, he defeated Rome, the mightiest military power of that age, who had a million men, in every battle for the next fifteen years. He is the father of military strategy. His tactics are still taught in the leading military academies of the United States, England, France, Germany and other lands.

* John VI,  King of Portugal, a Negro was the maker of modern Brazil. Transferring his throne to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, he ruled Portugal from Brazil. This is the first and only time a European country has been ruled by and American one. 

* Cetewayo, King of Zululand, South Africa massacred an entire British army

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- 3 - (Facts, cont'd) rich treasures among which was the famous statue of the goddess, Nana. Later it became the capital of Cyrus the Great and Darius. Susa is the Shushan of the Bible where Esther sought the favor of King Ahaserus of Persia and Ethiopa. *Cheops, a Negro built the Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is 451 feet high, has 2,500,000 blocks of granite, each two and a half tons, covers 13 acres, took 100,000 men thirty years to build and was completed in 3730 B. C. *Piankhi, a ruler of Ancient Egypt, left his country in Central Africa and conquered all of that country to the mouth of the Nile in 750 B.C. * Negroes lived in America thousands of years before Columbus. Central American monuments show numerous carving of them as gods. When Columbus came to the New World, Negroes had been crossing from Africa to South America a distance of 1600 miles. The first white men to reach the American mainland, tell of seeing Negroes. Columbus who visited South America said that he had heard of them there. *Imhotep of Ancient Egypt, was the real Father of Medicine. He lived about 2300 B.C. Greece and Rome had their knowledge of medicine from him. In Rome he was worshipped as the Prince of Peace in the form of a black man. His Ethiopian portraits show him as a Negro. Imhotep was also Prime Minister to King Zoser as well as the foremost architect of his time. The saying, "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die," has been traced to him. Hippocrates lived 2,000 years after Imhotep. *France has had six colored Cabinet Ministers - Severiano de Heredia, 1887; Senator Henri Lemery, 191-1918; and 1934; Alcide Delmont. 1928; Blaise Diagne, 1931; Gratien Candace, 1932; Gaston Monnerville, 1937. De Heredia, as Minister of Public Works, built some of France's finest roads. *The oldest and most noted statue in the world bears the face of a Negro. It is the Sphinx of Gizeh, which was worshipped as Horus, or Harmachis, the Sun-God of Light and Life. It was erected about 5,000 B.C. * There were three African Popes of Rome; Victor (189-199 A.D.); Melchiades 9311-312); and St. Gelasius 496 A.D.). It was Melchiades who led Christianity to final triumph against the Roman Empire. *The celestial saint of Germany is St. Maurice, a Negro. While in command of a Roman legion in Gaul (Switzerland), in 287 A.D., he refused to attack the Christians when ordered to do so by the Emperor Maximian Herculius, for which he was killed. His picture is in many German cathedrals and museums sometimes with the German eagle on his head. * In 218 B. C., Hannibal, a Negro, marching through conquered territory in Spain and France, performed the astounding feat of crossing the Alps. With only 26,000 of his original force of 82,000 men remaining, he defeated Rome, the mightiest military power of that age, who had a million men, in every battle for the next fifteen years. He is the father of military strategy. His tactics are still taught in the leading military academies of the United States, England, France, Germany and other lands. * John VI, King of Portugal, a Negro was the maker of modern Brazil. Transferring his throne to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, he ruled Portugal from Brazil. This is the first and only time a European country has been ruled by and American one. * Cetewayo, King of Zululand, South Africa massacred an entire British army