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Darryl Roberts inspired to join ICEWALK
The Golden Legacy Illustrated History Series is truly an Inspirational Series that has motivated many youngsters to accomplish their dreams and become role models themselves!!!
Darryl E. Roberts, a 23 year old young man from Brooklyn, N.Y. was inspired by our title on Matthew Henson and his historic expedition with Commander Peary to the North Pole! As a result, Darryl Roberts was motivated to join an international delegation, ICEWALK that was timed to commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of that historic landmark in polar exploration!!!
ICEWALK, the first truly international expedition to the North Pole, embarked in December Of 1988 from the northernmost point of Canada, Cape Columbia, on a 65 day, 489 mile trek on foot to the North Pole to carry out scientific studies to determine levels of various pollutants in the Artic atmosphere.!!!
Mr. Roberts wrote to us:
"Words can not express the appreciation I feel for the efforts and struggles you've made to continue to publish your Golden Legacy. I'll never forget that you've helped me to see in 'color' ."
Darryl E. Roberts
North Pole '89
Reader wins National History Day Grand Prize Award
The
remarkable Golden Legacy Illustrated History Series is a 16 volume classic
collection of role models and heroes of African descent whose images will
not fade or tarnish....THEY INSPIRE!!!
One
of our Golden Legacy readers, Amma Ghartey-Tagoe, a high school junior
from Manhattan, Kansas won the 1997 National History Day Grand Prize Award
of a $60,000. college scholarship was inspired by our Golden Legacy title,
Volume 10, Joseph Cinque and the Amistad Mutiny, that was given to her
by her mother. Her teacher, Mickey Bogart, won the History Channel's $5,000.
Mentor's Award! Read some of what this student wrote in the National History
Day NEWS, a publication that is dedicated to promoting the Study of History
in Schools, issued the Summer of 1996:
I
had come to National History Day representing not only my state but all
of the hard work and people who had made it possible for me to have this
experience of a lifetime. And now I would receive the highest honor possible...My
topic was Joseph Cinque and the Amistad Incident. If anyone had asked me
to explain the Amistad Incident for $60,000. before this project, I don't
think I even could have answered that it was a part of American history.
From a historical 'comic book' (Golden Legacy) my mother excitedly
passed on the heroic story of an African who fought for his freedom on
a Spanish slave ship and then through a whirlwind of events ended up in
our Supreme Court.
Prof.
of History at
Morgan State College |
DR.QUARLES SAYS..."The illustrated
magazine, Golden Legacy, certainly lives up to its name, telling us things
of the storied past that are are well worth knowing. Each volume catches
the spirit of the times and the personality of the participants. As one
turns the pages the past seems to come alive, particularly those aspects
of it which up to now have generally escaped our attention. |
