Mikaila Ulmer signed an $11 Million deal at 11 years old

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Mikaila Ulmer signed an $11 Million deal at 11 years old

Mikaila’s interest in Lemonade

Mikaila Ulmer, at age 4,  asked her parents for a toy. Instead of giving her the money or the toy, Mr. and Mrs. Ulmer encouraged her to make her own money to buy it herself. Mikaila entered The Acon Children’s Business Fair and the Austin Lemonade Day.  While brainstorming ideas for these competitions, Mikaila was stung by a bee twice in one week.  Therefore, her parents encouraged and helped research bees to take the ease out of the unpleasant situation.  During her research, she found that bees are dying and saw how beneficial bees are to our ecosystem. Mikaila wanted to know what she could do to save them.

Me & the Bees Lemonade

Her Great Granny Helen sent her a 1940s cookbook, including her special Flaxseed Lemonade recipe.  She used the recipe, hoping that it would work.  It did! She opened a lemonade stand in front of their Austin, Texas home, and then BeeSweet Lemonade was born, later renamed Me & the Bees Lemonade after a trademark dispute.  Mikaila lemonade uses all-natural ingredients with Granny Helen’s flaxseed and local honey instead of sugar.  

Mikaila squeezed her lemonade at her stand, but her parents helped design the stickers for the cups.  She participated in the Austin Lemonade Day in 2010 and won awards. Even a local pizza business started supplying her lemonade, followed by a pastry shop that offered to sell her product if she bottled and labelled it.  “As the business grew, I had to say, ‘I can’t do this alone.’ That’s when I had to start asking, ‘Mom, Dad, how do I get a logo? And into a manufacturer? And more stores, Mikaila stated in one of her interviews.

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Her Success

At nine, she pitched her lemonade on Shark Tank, where she received $60,000 from FUBU CEO Daymond John. Now, at 13, her company, Me & the Bees Lemonade, is in demand.

“My goal is to offer a wide range of lemonade products and one day expand beyond lemonade.  With a larger audience and the launch of a non-profit organization in the near future, my team and I can make a greater impact on saving the bees,” says Mikaila.

Her worth

 In 2016, According to Celebrity Net Worth, Mikaila was worth $11 Million at 11 when she made a deal with Whole Foods. She now has flavors like Mint, Prickly Pear, Ginger, and Half Tea and Lemonade and has formed her own nonprofit, Healthy Hive Foundation, a nonprofit powered by The Giving Back Fund.  Therefore, her lemonade is now in more than 380 stores nationwide.  According to BevNet.com, in 2017, a group of 12 angel investors comprised of 10 professional football players and two advisors has contributed $810,000 in funding to support the growth of the company’s distribution channels and to increase production.

According to Bevnet.com, her angel investors and their affiliation are as follows:

Omar Bolden “ Safety, Chicago Bears and Denver Broncos

Arian Foster “ former Running Back, Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins

Jonathan Grimes– Running Back, Houston Texans, New York Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars

Malik B. Jackson “ Defensive Tackle, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars

Lameck Humble Lukanga “  Certified Financial Planner for athletes, entertainers, and executives; founder of LifeLine Financial Group

Media Coverage

Mikaila’s lemonade story has led her to be a nationally recognized speaker.  She has gained attention even in Washington, where she was invited to The White House to meet President Barack Obama three times.  Mikaila was struggling with some of her schoolwork.

“Sometimes I have to miss classes to do an interview or travel for a TV show. Or I’ll miss a big show or presentation because I have a large project or test at school.”  She received an “a” in her math class due to her obligations as co-CEO of her company. 

According to a BBC news article in 2018

She has also missed TV interviews and panels due to a test or a project at school.

Her Philosophy

“Don’t be discouraged by lifeâ’s little things but get back up and spread your wings. Find your passion or a cause that you can use your company to help save, or to do good as well as make a profit.“

Mikaila Ulmer

Work Cited
Jeffrey, James. The 13-Year-Old Who Built a Best-Selling Lemonade Brand. BBC News, BBC, 23 July 2018, www.bbc.com/news/business-44860428.
Me & the Bees Lemonade Raises $810k from Football Players and Advisors.” BevNET.com, 14 July 2017, www.bevnet.com/news/2017/bees-lemonade-raises-810k-football-players-advisors.
Welcome to Me & the Bees. Me & the Bees Lemonade, 2019, www.meandthebees.com/.

Co-hosts tell the story of Ophelia Devore-Mitchell.

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Co-hosts tell the story of Ophelia Devore-Mitchell.
Co-hosts Vanessa & Cyslie chat about the first known black model, Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell. They recap their blog about how DeVore became a businesswoman by opening Grace Del Marco in 1946, which is one of the first modeling agencies. Vanessa and Cyslie tell her story and discuss how significant it is for black women today.
Podcast Notes
Who was Ophelia?
  • She was the first black model
  • One of four founders of one of the first modeling agencies
  • Grace Del Marco in 1946 (the same year as Ford Modeling)
Her early life
  • Biracial (dad was white and mom was Black/Cherokee)
  • She lived with a relative in NYC so she could get a better education.
  • She graduated from NYU with a double major
Modeling career
  • She modeled for hair products and Ebony magazine
  • She wanted to see a change in black models so she went to modeling school
  • Vogue School of Modeling (no connection with Vogue magazine) didn’t know she was Black because of her light skin.
Modeling Agency
  • Grace Del Marco named from the 4 owners
  • The name of the latter changed to her name
  • They represented Black models
  • They started a Charm School to help with grooming, makeup, walking, etc.
  • She represented models, actors, TV personalities like Cyslie Tyson.
Accomplishment
  • She received numerous awards
  • Her talent won Emmy’s and was first to produce a TV show with a black actor
Check out our blog for more information on Ophelia DeVore.

Black is Beautiful’ pioneer Ophelia DeVore

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Black is Beautiful’ pioneer Ophelia DeVore

Photo credit: New Pittsburgh Courier online

“I wanted America to know that beauty isn’t just white, it’s all colors. I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States”

” OPHELIA DEVORE, THE GRIO

Ophelia DeVore was one of the first black models in the United States. She also made history by becoming the brainchild behind one of the first modeling agencies, Grace Del Marco, in 1946; the same year Ford Modeling opened its doors. Grace Del Marco was unlike Ford Modeling. Ophelia helped change the face of the fashion and beauty industry by representing black women during a time when it was almost impossible to have black women in the media.

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Introduction

Ophelia DeVore was one of the first black models in the United States. She also made history by becoming the brainchild behind one of the first modeling agencies, Grace Del Marco, in 1946; the same year Ford Modeling opened their doors. Grace Del Marco was unlike Ford Modeling, Ophelia helped to change the face of the fashion and beauty industry by representing black women during a time it was almost impossible to have black women in the media.

DeVore was born Emma Ophelia DeVore on August 12, 1922, in Edgefield, South Carolina. She was biracial. Her father was white (German and French descent) and her mother was black and Native American (Cherokee). Her father mentored her in communicating well with people, as her mother stressed proper education, appearance, and etiquette. Devore attended segregated schools until she was nine years old, but in 1933, her parents sent her to New York City to live with her Great-Aunt Stella in order to complete her education. She graduated from Hunter College High School and later graduated from New York University where she studied mathematics and languages, including French, Latin, and German.

Ophelia DeVore and her modeling career

In 1938, friends and family encouraged DeVore to go into the modeling industry after seeing photographs of her. She began modeling for small hair care jobs because these were the only ones offered to Black models then. Her mission as a model was to change the stereotype of how blacks were depicted in the print media. At age 16, she attended the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, so she could get more formal training in modeling. There, she took classes in modeling and charm, but the school was unaware that she was Black. They did not serve Black clientele then. According to an interview with Vision Project in 2010, DeVore said she overheard a representative at Vogue School of Modeling saying to a colleague “What are we going to do with them,” speaking of an applicant with café au lait skin, as she called it? She then realized they didn’t know that she was Black, but DeVore didn’t feel the need to broadcast her race to the school’s administrators because she knew the outcome. After completing modeling school, she began modeling continuously for the new Black magazine, Ebony, founded in 1945.

Cicely Tyson and modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore disembarking from an airplane, probably in the early 1960s. Photo credit: Black Girl Long Hair Cicely Tyson and modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore disembarking from an airplane, probably in the early 1960s. Photo credit: Black Girl Long Hair

Grace Del Marco Modeling Agency

In 1946, DeVore and four friends began the Grace Del Marco Modeling Agency. According to Ebony magazine, the name came from “Grace,” signaling elegance and style, “Marco” was an acronym formed by the names of its founders: “M” from Marie Mayo, “A” from Albert Murphy, “R” from Rupert Callendar, “C” from Charles Mayo and “O” from Ophelia DeVore, and “Del” is from the Spanish word for by. Racism was rampant in New York’s fashion business, and the Grace Del Marco Agency was one of the few places non-White models could receive work. 1948, the agency opened the Ophelia DeVore School of Charm (Self-Development & Modeling). This is where black people would learn etiquette, poise and posture, speech and ballet, and self-presentation. “Charm School offered a counterweight to the tradition of internalized self-hatred that was many black Americans’ legacy.” (NYTimes). Initially located in Queens, the school ultimately moved to the Empire State Building.

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DeVore paved the way for black models like Diahann Carroll and Helen Williams, in which she produced a mega promotional campaign for the Johnson & Johnson corporation that launched the career of supermodel Williams, one of the first African-American fashion models to break into the mainstream. She also represented the legendary actress Cicely Tyson and Gail Fisher. She won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. Along with others, Richard Roundtree is known as “the first black action hero.” In addition, she worked with TV reporters such as Trudy Haynes, who was one of the first black female TV reporters. Her shows for the agency took place in churches, college campuses, and the ballrooms of the Diplomat and Waldorf-Astoria hotels.

Making History

According to the National Visionary Leadership Project, DeVore-Mitchell and her models made history in 1955 as hosts of ABC’s weekly television show “Spotlight on Harlem,” the first television show in New York produced by and for African-Americans. She also produced several television shows, including “Ophelia DeVore Show.” In 1960, two of her clients, Cecilia Cooper and LaJeune Hundley, were the first Black or White Americans to win titles at the Cannes Film Festival. Grace Del Marco has later renamed Ophelia DeVore Associates and then the Ophelia DeVore Organization.

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She once sued Life Magazine after it published a story in 1969 on Black models for which DeVore was interviewed. The article ended up leaving her interview but cited White-owned agencies instead. In 1971, DeVore and her models took to the streets of New York to protest “Racial Journalism” against Life Magazine and their parent company Time, Inc. It angered DeVore that Black models were being kept from being used, and her passion for supporting the growth of the Black business was a priority for her. DeVore took her case to the New York Supreme Court and said, “if the case is thrown out of the courts, we’ll take it to the streets.” (Jet Mag).

Devore also created a makeup line for women of color and developed and produced the first beauty pageant for black women here in the U.S. She was the owner and publisher of The Columbus Times, based in Columbus, GA., and a founder of The Black Press Archives at Howard University, a repository for Black newspapers. She has received over 200 awards and was honored by being named one of the 75 Black women who, in 1989, have positively affected and changed the world as part of the famed “I Dream A World Series.”

In 1941, she married a firefighter Harold Carter with whom she had five children. They divorced, and in 1968 she married Vernon Mitchell.

DeVore’s Philosophy

Through all of her enterprises, she was communicating that African-Americans need to see themselves as a people of authority and confidence, says Randall K. Burkett, curator of African American Collections at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.

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Work Cited

“Black History Month: Fashion and Beauty Pioneer Ophelia DeVore.” 50BOLD, 1 Mar. 2019, 50bold.com/black-history-month-fashion-and-beauty-pioneer-ophelia-devore/.

Gainer, ByNichelle. “Ophelia DeVore: Bold Beauty and Brains.” EBONY, 4 Aug. 2016, www.ebony.com/style/ophelia-devore-bold-beauty-and-brains/.

Gierer, Larry. “Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, Pioneering Model, Dies at 93.” Ledger, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2014, www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article29322991.html.

Manney, Whitney. “#MyHistory: Ophelia DeVore.” WHITNEYMANNEY, WHITNEYMANNEY, 26 Feb. 2018, www.whitneymanney.com/new-blog/myhistory-ophelia-devore.

“Ophelia DeVore Biography @ Reality TV World.” Reality TV World, www.realitytvworld.com/pophollywood/ophelia-devore/biography/.

“Ophelia DeVore.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Jan. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_DeVore.

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Wally Amos was the first black talent agent and entrepreneur who founded Famous Amos cookies.

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Wally Amos was the first black talent agent and entrepreneur who founded Famous Amos cookies.

Who is Wally Amos?

In 1967, he left the famous William Morris Agency in New York to move to Los Angeles to start his management company. He managed a South African trumpet player, Hugh Masekela.  His first client decided to drop him from representation after Amos tried to move him and his family to California with him. This management company didn’t prosper, so he used his agent skills to manage himself. Amos made cookies for “therapy” at entertainment parties and gatherings. These cookies received an overwhelming response, so in 1974, he decided to start his cookie company, Famous Amos, with $25,000. The business began with a West Sunset Boulevard and North Formosa Avenue store in Hollywood, California.  In the first year, he sold $300,000 worth of cookies, followed by more than $1,000,000 in sales in the store’s second year.  Famous Amos was also picked up by Bloomingdales Department Store and later by other specialty stores such as Baskin-Robbins, T.G.I. Fridays, and Starbucks.

Within ten years, he sold the company to the Shansby Group. After selling the famous recipe, he started Chip & Cookie Company. The focus was on real, all-natural ingredients, but he used the same method and was later sued by Shansby Group for violating their contract.  In 1992, Amos started another company, Uncle Noname Cookies.  In 1998, Keebler signed Amos and his Famous Amos brand for the recipe, branding, and use of Amos as the spokesman for the Famous Amos brand. Although he has sold Famous Amos, he has still been a large part of it.  Keebler called him years ago to do a taste test of the cookies. Amos disapproved of the cookie. They changed the ingredients by adding artificial flavors to make them less expensive and faster. However, Amos told them to change the recipe and add more natural ingredients. The Kellogg Company purchased Keebler in 2001, and the brand is now a part of Kellogg’s.

Currently, Amos lives in Hawaii with his wife and kids. He continued to run Chip & Cookie Company and Uncle Noname Cookies in local Hawaii stores, along with a new company, Uncle Wally’s Family of Muffins. They have sold in over 5,000 stores in the United States, including Walmart and Costco. Amos has received many honors and awards, including the President’s Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, the Horatio Alger Award, and the National Literacy Honors Award. He is also a motivational speaker and has written ten books, including an inspirational work entitled Watermelon Credo: The Book. Amos says his success as an author and a motivational speaker is due in no small part to his Aunt Della: “[Aunt Della’s] basic recipe for cookies became the foundation for much of my success.

As you will see and hear from the video below, he is not receiving any money from Kellogg. Although they still use all branding of Famous Amos cookies, including the name and his face. I would love to see that contract he signed with Shansby Group. However, maybe after he breached his contract, all bets were off. I don’t know! But I find this extremely bothersome, especially since he was a former agent. He was not just any agent, but a reputable one who I studied during my college years before and as I became a talent agent myself. However, I have learned from my personal experience that I am not my best manager. It is very different when representing others.

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What can we teach our kids about this story?

Amos and his wife established the Read It Loud! Foundation to promote reading to children.

“I encourage parents to read aloud to children at least from birth to 6 years old. I’d really like them to do it beforehand while they’re in the womb,” Amos said in a MidWeek interview.

Work Cited

“History.” Wally Amos, 28 Apr. 2013, wallyamosinfo.weebly.com/history.html.

Taylor, Erica L. “Little Known Black History Fact: Wally Amos.” Black America Web, 8 Oct. 2013, blackamericaweb.com/2013/10/08/little-known-black-history-fact-wally-amos/.

“Wally Amos.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 28 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/wally-amos-9542382.

Self-made Millionaire at the age of 15

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Self-made Millionaire at the age of 15
 
https://jaylenbledsoe.com/
Dream & Think Big. Control Your Future.
Own Self Validation. Donâ™t Seek Validation.
– Jaylen D. Bledsoe
Born and raised in Missouri by a single black teenage mom, Jaylen D. Bledsoe started his company and became a millionaire teenager.
”Taught me to code at 11, start biz at 12, hire over 150 employees by 14, and at 18 inspiring more #BlackGuyNerds -Jaylen D. Bledsoe
At 12, while most kids are thinking about sports and playing outside Bledsoe started an IT consulting company. A year later, with $100 and providing free services for friends, he started Jaylen D. Bledsoe Global Group specializing in website design and various IT services. His company started with only two employees but has over 150 contracted employees. His company expanded into a global enterprise and expanded his services to photography, videography, computer repair, search engine optimization, voice recordings and consulting. Currently at 20, with a net worth of $3.5 million in 2014. In 2015, he started The Flare Digital Agency, which helps build businesses for Fortune 500 Companies and Celebrities to help build their business, grow brand recognition, and manage systems to increase efficiency. Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor Company and AT&T, and celebrity clients Steve Harvey and Jordan Starks are among some of his clients. Bledsoe’s generated over $175M for his company. He recently founded Bledsoe Foundation with a mission of the resources and education to enable success for youth through financial literacy, entertainment, and entrepreneurship, among other vital areas.
He serves on the board of Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club, Multitasking Hearts Corp, Notes For Life A&T, advising Jordan SparksThe M.A.D. Girls, Inc. and has before served as the President of the National Youth Rights Association.
“I see greater meaning in knowing that I’ve motivated someone with my story, inspired someone with my words, or impacted someone with my business rather than just enjoying the check that was offered” he told The Huffington Post.
Bledsoe credits the technology program for gifted third-graders at his St. Louis school for his success. There, he took a yearbook design class, where he taught himself web design while in the sixth grade. He also had a mentor who gave him invaluable advice.
Take risks; there is nothing that you can do as a minor that will shoot you down for too long because you are young. You can come back up and keep going.”   -Chain grocery store CEO, Scott Schnuck
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 Work Cited
Harris, John. “Meet 17-Year-Old Jaylen D. Bledsoe, CEO Of A $3.5 Million Global Enterprise “ Financial Juneteenth.” Financial Juneteenth, 27 Aug. 2015, financialjuneteenth.com/17ceo/.
Jaylen D. Bledsoe | Success & Entrepreneur Lifestyle Blog.” Jaylen Bledsoe, 2018, jaylenbledsoe.com/.
Parks, Forest. REMEMBER THIS FACE! Only 17, Jaylen D. Bledsoe Has Built a $3.5 Million Global Enterprise.” Urban Intellectuals, 9 May 2016, urbanintellectuals.com/remember-face-17-jaylen-d-bledsoe-built-3-5-million-global-enterprise/.
Rachelle, Alyssa. “17-Year-Old Builds $3.5 Million Global Enterprise.” Atlanta Black Star, 27 Aug. 2015, atlantablackstar.com/2015/08/27/17-year-old-builds-3-5-million-global-enterprise-company/.
 
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“God gave me the chance, but use it and don’t wait like others wait for it to blow.” His tip for young people: take a risk. “If you are young, nothing can stop you in your development for a longer period. You are young, so you can always make a comeback that works out better.”
-Jaylen D. Bledsoe

Jerry Lawson: The man who Pioneered the Video Game Cartridge.

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Jerry Lawson: The man who Pioneered the Video Game Cartridge.
(December 1, 1940- April 9, 2011)

Photo credits: The Estate of Jerry Lawson (Jerry Lawson)

Before Xbox, PlayStation, or even Atari, you had to buy a machine for each game, but Gerald Anderson “Jerry” Lawson changed that and was one of the founders of the video game industry. He was one of the few Black American engineers who worked in computing at the beginning of the video game era and became the founder of the first black-owned video game development company.

He is best known for leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge and for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console.

Early Life

Born December 1, 1940, Lawson grew up in the projects of Queens in New York City. His father was a longshoreman who encouraged science, while his mother was actively involved with Lawson’s education. She arranged it for him to attend a prestigious school outside their predominantly white area. During his teenage years, he broadcasted his radio show from his apartment, and he made money by selling homemade walk-in talkies and fixing his neighbor’s televisions. 

Education

He attended Queens College and the City College of New York before taking his talents to Grumman Electric and Federal Aircraft. Manufacture of one of the largest computer companies in the 1970s’ DEC PDP-8 hosted a class in Lawson’s garage. He programmed for many companies and developed program languages, including H.U.D. (Head-up Display) systems for aircraft.

Career

He became a design consultant in Silicon Valley and one of two black members of the Home Brew Computer Club, which started in 1975. This club met to talk about the Altair 8800 and to exchange schematics and programming tips. The members were computer programmers and electrical engineers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

He worked for Fairchild as head of engineering and marketing in 1976 for their gaming division. He designed one of the first coin games, Demolition Derby. Lawson set it up so kids couldn’t trigger the micro switch and get free plays which was an issue with another coin-op game before Demolition Derby. For the first five years at Fairchild, the company and the executives thought he was Indian.

 “The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys; if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and do it,“ once told Lawson San Jose Mercury News reporters.

Blacks in Gaming

According to a study by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), only 2 percent of game developers in 2005 were Black or African-American. Today IGDA suggests that only 3% of game developers are African-American, a figure that has risen by only 0.5 percent in the past decade. Here are their top 10 in the industry now. 

Blacks in Stem

According to engadget.com, Lawson told Vintage Computing that his advice for black males and females interested in science and engineering is to…

 “First of all, get them to consider it [technical careers] in the first place. That’s key. Even considering the thing. They need to understand that they’re in the land by themselves. Don’t look for your buddies to be helpful, because they won’t be. You’ve gotta step away from the crowd and go do your own thing. You find a ground; cover it; it’s brand-new; you’re on your own — you’re an explorer. That’s about what it’s going to be like. Explore new vistas, new avenues, new ways — not relying on everyone else’s way to tell you which way to go, and how to go, and what you should be doing.” – Jerry Lawson

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Legacy and Contribution

  • He founded Videosoft, the first black-owned video game development company. 
  • Lawson Produced the game Demolition Derby, One Of The Industry’s Earliest Arcade Games.
  • He created the hardware for the first video game console that used interchangeable cartridges, called the Fairfield Channel F. This was the first time a game could be stored externally to allow the storage of multiple games played in one system. It was the first programmable R.O.M. cartridge-based video game console. The F.C.C. approved every cartridge that Lawson produced (26).
  • He founded Video Soft, the first black-owned video game development company. This company produced several video games within the first five years. Since then, he had taken on consulting roles in the 1980s. Stevie Wonder had asked him to help create a clock called the Wonder Clock that would wake a child in the morning with the sound of his or her mother’s voice, but it never made it to production.
  • Lawson was one of the few Black American engineers who worked in computing at the beginning of the video game era.

Next time you are playing your DS or other gaming devices where you swipe out a game, remember Jerry Lawson.

Work Cited

Clark, Kevin. “Black History Month: 12 Facts about Jerry Lawson, Creator of the Video Game Cartridge.” The Philadelphia Sunday Sun, 11 Feb. 2017, www.philasun.com/color-of-money/black-history-month-12-facts-jerry-lawson-creator-video-game-cartridge/.
Devindra, Hardawar. “Jerry Lawson, a Self-Taught Engineer, Gave Us Video Game Cartridges.” Engadget, 14 July 2016, www.engadget.com/2015/02/20/jerry-lawson-game-pioneer/.
“Jerry Lawson: Inventor of the Video Game Cartridge.” Kentake Page, 15 Apr. 2018, kentakepage.com/jerry-lawson-inventor-of-the-video-game-cartridge/.

Episode 2: One Story of the Great Migration

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Episode 2: One Story of the Great Migration

Mrs. Rebecca Gilton Hardin was born and raised in Lanett, Alabama in early 1934. Her birth certificate says she is a “Negro”.   She is a wife, a mother of 2 children, 3 grandchildren, and 9 siblings. Rebecca felt that children needed to be treated like people, so she became an elementary teacher in Chicago for 37 years and then became a librarian because there was a shortage of librarians.
SHOW NOTES
  • Her father and mother-
    • He wanted his kids “tall”, and Ms. Rebecca called her mother by her first name.
  • Education-
    • There were no schools for them. Her father had to build one. However, “they” sent them a teacher.
    • They didn’t have a school bus.
    • She was kept in 6th grade for 2 years because she was too little to go downtown for school.  Young Rebecca was required to walk 5 miles to her downtown school because there was no school bus for her demographic group.
    • She attended Alabama State and was very active in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • The Movement-
    • She did not fear to march and protesting
    • After the law was passed about bus segregation, she had to cross state lines with her sick baby on the bus.
    • A white person entered the bus, they asked her to move to the back of the bus.  She did, only because she was with her sick baby. If she hadn’t, they would have arrested her.
    • She attended a church where Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor
    • She marched with him in Washington.
  • Her white friend
    • When she was 8 years old, she would play with a little white girl on a regular basis
    • One day the little girl told her, “I can’t play with you anymore because you are a negro”.
  • President Obama
    • She cried the day Obama became President
    • She believes he did help Black people
      “Black people can fight for injustice in this current day by continuing to take over; to continue protesting and marching for change.  We need to start working with the young Black kids and give them education and mentors.” 
      –Rebecca Gilton Hardin

Episode 1: Growing Up Black In Alabama

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SHOW NOTES
Our teller for this episode grew up in Alabama during the civil rights movement. Mrs. Dorothy Wright shares stories about her family, what it was like growing up during segregation in the south, and her opinion on racism today.
About the Teller
Mrs. Dorothy Wright, who goes by the name “Do Wright”, is the widow of a Vietnam Veteran. She has 4 children, 2 grandchildren, and 9 siblings. She was born and raised in Lanett, Alabama during the 1940s.  Mrs. Do Wright attended Stillman College and Temple University but later moved to Chicago where she worked for over 30 years at the U.S Post Office.  Twenty of those years, she worked as a supervisor. 
Family background
  • She tells stories of her father, Abraham Stiggers, and also passes down stories he had shared with her.
  • Her mother and her role growing up
  • What she knew of her ancestors
Story at the Dentist Office
  • How she was treated by a white dentist
  • Segregation
Issues with racism today
  • Comparing R. Kelly to Elvis Presley marrying a teenage girl
 
Here are some additional clips from the interview with Mrs. Dorothy Wright that were not included in our original podcast.
 

“Make sure their kids have a father and mother figure that are good role models but believe reading books is the best education”.

– Dorothy Wright

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Welcome to Tellers of the Untold, a weekly podcast where our goal is to make black history, the shared history of all Americans, appealing and fun so that our children continue a cycle of awareness and positive future changes.
Introducing ourselves
  • Vanessa & Cyslie are your co-hosts
  • Two moma’s living in Chicago
Why we are doing this podcast?
  • We saw a need for documenting our seniors and others with stories that can help others.
  • To help educate our kids and the community
What?
  • This is a podcast where we will interview Tellers (Storytellers) about their Untold stories.
When?
  • We plan to have a podcast out weekly with Tellers
  • On some weeks, we may be telling stories from their blog
THANK YOU!
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