1. In Part 1 we said wherever African American people are Black Liberation Theology exists.

2. The slogan “Black is beautiful” reflects the interface of the Black Consciousness Movement {BCM} of Bantu Steven Biko’s South African Students Organization and the Black Power thrust of the African American Freedom Movement in the USA.

3. Black Liberation Theology is emergent as a key dimension of both Black Power and Black Consciousness initiatives. All three serve inwardly {psychologically} and politically {organizing independently of 0ppresive Whiteness}.

4. In 1932 the Black Electorate, formerly voting for the Republican party of Lincoln, shifted to the Democratic Party, i.e. voting for instead the then anti-depression party and presidential campaign of FDR {Franklyn Delano Roosevelt}.

5. Sara Roosevelt, the mother of FDR, served as one of the leading financial donors of the cause Mary Mcleod Bethune, African American educator and philanthropist. Bethune was also an ally of Elenore Roosevelt especially on African American concerns and those of other people of color as well as women’s concerns.

6. Mrs. Bethune, 1st President of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Co-founder of National Council of Negro Women and Bethune-Cookman College, was also considered the First Lady of the African American Freedom Movement. Moreover, she served as an advocate of both the Roosevelt campaigns and administrations as well as served as a leading member of Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet.

7. Mrs. Bethune was a leading part of the historic shift of the Black vote from the Republican Party of Lincoln to the Democratic Party of FDR’S New Deal between 1932 and 1936.

8. One can’t observe Black History Months without remembering the work of Mary Mcleod Bethune. And this includes her serving as the only African American woman member of the 1048 founding convention of the United Nations organization.

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