2022 Black Heritage Calendar - Presented by the Black Educators' Caucus Inc., of Hernando County

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“True community is based upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.” – Pauli Murray Eugene Eleby 1942 - 1996 Dr. Eugene Louie Eleby, Jr. joined the Moton High School staff as a reading instructor and assistant librarian in 1964. He would establish himself as the intellectual of the staff who was as comfortable speaking with the educated as well as the common man and woman. Eugene was born in Mobile, Alabama, where he was an honor student at Central High School. Eugene came of age in Alabama during the modern civil rights movement. The Brown v. Board of Education would have some impact on his education, but the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Governor Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa would profoundly capture his attention. After high school, he attended Bishop State Junior College which was referred to as the branch of Alabama State University in Mobile. After two years, Eugene matriculated to Alabama State College in Montgomery, where Professor Joann Robinson had used the Alabama State’s resources to make flyers to tell people not to ride the bus and initiated an event that lasted 180 days and bankrupted the Montgomery Public Transportation System. These experiences impacted his direction into a career of public service. So, after earning his bachelors and master’s degrees from Alabama State, he accepted a teaching position at Moton High School in Brooksville just as the desegregation of the public school was commencing in Florida. He would later earn a doctorate degree from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Eugene was an asset to the community as a mentor, educator, and an intellectual. Therefore, it was not long before his college sweetheart, the former Jessie Mabin was hired to the Moton staff as an elementary teacher also. Eugene was intimately familiar with the works and thoughts of some of the black community’s popular thinkers and writers, such as James Baldwin, W. E. B. Dubois and frequently quoted Morehouse College President, Benjamin Elijah Mays, “You make your living by what you get, you make your life by what you give.” They made Brooksville home, purchasing a home in the Mitchell Heights Community, joined First Baptist Church of Shady Rest, Frederick Kelly Elks Lodge 1270, and Jesse Kelly Temple 1004. Gene once served as the Florida State Educational Board chairman for the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. His influence manifested through students he taught such as Martha Carol Maner, Dianna Butts, Angela Humose, Franke and Peter Burnett Jr., Peter and Sharon Griffin. The Elebys were generous and kind people who shared without groan or moan. They spent 25 years in Hernando County as teachers before retiring in the early 1990s. They relocated to Eugene’s hometown of Mobile, Alabama and joined the staff at his alma mater, Bishop State Community College as professors. Eugene loved his students and community, but his wife Jessie and daughter Ejessica ranked second to God, Alabama State University, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated. There is no question that Brooksville benefited from the life of Eugene Eleby. Sponsors: Jessie and Ejessica Eleby
FEBRUARY 2022 NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH Groundhog Day 1966, Moton School Bus Tragedy National Wear Red Day (Heart Awareness) 1913, Rosa Parks Birthday 1968, Three South Carolina students killed during segregation protest in Orangeburg, SC Lincoln's Birthday National Black Love Day St. Valentine's Day 1938, Mary Frances Berry first woman to serve as chancellor of a major university (University of Colorado) born Presidents' Day Family Day Washington's Birthday 1868, W.E.B. DuBois scholar, activist, and author of The Souls of Black folk, born 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes first Black woman to receive a medical degree (New England Female Medical College)
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Page 3 and 4: This year's BEC 2022 Black Heritage
Page 5 and 6: IN MEMORY OF ANCESTORS Reverend Eli
Page 7 and 8: IN MEMORY OF ANCESTORS Dewayne John
Page 9 and 10: IN MEMORY OF ANCESTORS Anthony Roch
Page 11 and 12: NOW FOR THE BIG REVEAL OF THE CALEN
Page 13 and 14: Betty Morgan Barbie Hall Annie Laws
Page 15 and 16: In Loving Memory Paying Homage to
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Page 21 and 22: MARCH 2022 1st Day of Women's Histo
Page 23 and 24: APRIL 2022 NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING MO
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Page 27 and 28: JUNE 2022 BLACK MUSIC APPRECIATION
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Page 33 and 34: SEPTEMBER 2022 NATIONAL SICKLE CELL
Page 35 and 36: OCTOBER 2022 NATIONAL BREAST CANCER
Page 37 and 38: NOVEMBER 2022 Daylight Saving Time
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2022 Black Heritage Calendar - Presented by the Black Educators' Caucus Inc., of Hernando County

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