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NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, 1967-1970

1969-02-06 Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch of the NAACP Page 3

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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 5,000BC.

There were three African Popes of RomeL VICTOR (189-199 AD); MELCHIADES (311-312); and ST. GELASIUS (496AD). It was MELCHIADES who let Christianity to final triumph against the Roman Empire. 

In 218BC, 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 American country has ruled an European one.

PRINCE ABD-EL RAHMAN, a highly educated grandson of the Emperor of Timbuctoo was captured in battle and sold into slavery in America. Years later, a white doctor who had traveled in his land, aw him at Natchez, Mississippi. He was freed in 1829 and $4,000 was paid for the liberation of his children. 

THE ROCK OF GiBRALTER, the symbol of stability, is named after a Negro ex-slave. It is a corruption of "Gebal-tarik", or "The Mountain of Tarik". TARIK captured the Rock which was then called Calpe, in 711 AD. Later, he conquered Southern Spain, Tarik's countrymen, thereafter ruled Spain for 700 years. 

During the period in West African History - from the early part if the fourteenth century to the time of the Moorish invasion in 1591, the City of Timbuktu, with the University of Sankore in Songhay Empire, was the intellectual center of Africa.

ESTEVANICO, a Negro from Morocco, was one of a party of four to cross the North American continent in 1536 for the first time The journey took nine years. In 1539 he headed an expedition that discovered Arizona and New Mexico. Estevanico's travels served to open up the Southwest and the States west of Florida, as far as the Pacific. 

JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE de SAIBLE, a Negro , was the founder of Chicago in 1799.

Negroes and Negro-Indian families helped to found what is now the largest city in the West? Established for the purpose of growing food for the military, it was known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Rieina de Los Angeles. Just as they were among the first citizns of the New mexico Spanish colonies, they were literally the first families of Los Angeles. 

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN, a Negro, born in Moscow in 1799, is considered by Russians to be their greatest literary figure. Turgenev and Dostoevsky called themselves his pupils and Tolstoy learned his verses by heart. 

PATRICK FRANCIS HEALEY, S.J., was the first Negro to win a Ph.D although he had

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-3- 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 5,000BC. There were three African Popes of RomeL VICTOR (189-199 AD); MELCHIADES (311-312); and ST. GELASIUS (496AD). It was MELCHIADES who let Christianity to final triumph against the Roman Empire. In 218BC, 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 American country has ruled an European one. PRINCE ABD-EL RAHMAN, a highly educated grandson of the Emperor of Timbuctoo was captured in battle and sold into slavery in America. Years later, a white doctor who had traveled in his land, aw him at Natchez, Mississippi. He was freed in 1829 and $4,000 was paid for the liberation of his children. THE ROCK OF GiBRALTER, the symbol of stability, is named after a Negro ex-slave. It is a corruption of "Gebal-tarik", or "The Mountain of Tarik". TARIK captured the Rock which was then called Calpe, in 711 AD. Later, he conquered Southern Spain, Tarik's countrymen, thereafter ruled Spain for 700 years. During the period in West African History - from the early part if the fourteenth century to the time of the Moorish invasion in 1591, the City of Timbuktu, with the University of Sankore in Songhay Empire, was the intellectual center of Africa. ESTEVANICO, a Negro from Morocco, was one of a party of four to cross the North American continent in 1536 for the first time The journey took nine years. In 1539 he headed an expedition that discovered Arizona and New Mexico. Estevanico's travels served to open up the Southwest and the States west of Florida, as far as the Pacific. JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE de SAIBLE, a Negro , was the founder of Chicago in 1799. Negroes and Negro-Indian families helped to found what is now the largest city in the West? Established for the purpose of growing food for the military, it was known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Rieina de Los Angeles. Just as they were among the first citizns of the New mexico Spanish colonies, they were literally the first families of Los Angeles. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN, a Negro, born in Moscow in 1799, is considered by Russians to be their greatest literary figure. Turgenev and Dostoevsky called themselves his pupils and Tolstoy learned his verses by heart. PATRICK FRANCIS HEALEY, S.J., was the first Negro to win a Ph.D although he had