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History Quotes

We should emphasis not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of natural bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

--Carter G. Woodson

A people without the knowledge of their past, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

--Marcus Garvey

Those who have no recordof what their forebearshave accomplishedlose the inspirationwhich comes from the teachingof biography and history.

--Carter G. Woodson

Henry W. Lockerman

Henry W. Lockerman was a Porter of the Nevada State Senate in 1889. He was a civil war veteran who served in the 79th U.S.C.I. at Fort Scott, Kansas which was the first colored infantry unit in Kansas. He is buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City, Nevada.