Nelson T. Gant Foundation

Nelson T. Gant Foundation The Nelson T. Gant for the building of character and community / cultural pride.

Gant Foundation is a 501C3 non-profit organization established in 201 for the purpose of re-storing the Gant house and to revive the legacy of Nelson T. You can take a free tour the house the second and third Saturday of March from 10 am to 2 pm.

03/01/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Thank you for participating in the Black history challenge. I hope you were able to get a lot of the Guess Who questions correct.

03/01/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Final answers
Guess Who?
25. Fri. Who taught Fats Domino how to play the piano?
His brother-in-law, Harrison Verrett

26. Sat. Who was the first Black woman to be chose to serve in the U.S. Congress and in 1972 ran for the Presidency of the U.S?
Shirley Chisolm

27. Sun. What was the first Black American labor union; formed in New York City in 1850.
The American League of Colored Laborers

28. Mon. Who is known as the father of Black history?
Carter G. Woodson

02/28/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Is known as the father of Black history?

02/28/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Last day
Guess Who?
What was the first Black American labor union; formed in New York City in 1850.

Guess Who?
Who is known as the father of Black history?

Did You Know?
That Roy Wilkins, known for his work for the NAACP, was the managing editor of the Kansas City Call in 1930.

02/28/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
What was the first Black American labor union; formed in New York City in 1850.

Did You Know?
That the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial was erected at Walterboro Army Airfield, South Carolina, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, their instructors, and ground support personnel who trained at the Walterboro Army Airfield during World War II.

02/27/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Answers to week four
20. Sun. Who was the first Black female poet to have her work published in the U.S.?
Phillis Wheatley

21. Mon. Grew up in Zanesville, graduated from ZHS, and became an influential Big Band arranger, conductor, composer and singer. He also joined the Tommy Dorsey Band. Some of his famous compositions are “Sunny Side of the Street,” Taint Whatcha Do," and “My Blue Heaven."
Melvin Sy Oliver

22. Tues. Was one of nine children born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio and became a musical prodigy. When he became the chair of the music department at Antioch College, he became the first African American to chair a department in any non-black institution of higher learning in the United States. He was a skilled and talented musician and earned an international reputation as an organist and pianist. He later became chair of the Music Committee at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Walter F. Anderson

23. Wed. Who was the first African American woman in the U.S. to write a nonfiction best seller?
Maya Angelou

24. Thurs. Was the first African American judge in the state of Ohio, was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, and graduated from Zanesville High School with honors.
Perry B. Jackson

25. Fri. Who taught Fats Domino how to play the piano?
His brother-in-law, Harrison Verrett

26. Sat. Who was the first Black woman to be chose to serve in the U.S. Congress and in 1972 ran for the Presidency of the U.S?
Shirley Chisolm

02/26/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Was the first Black woman to be chose to serve in the U.S. Congress and in 1972 ran for the Presidency of the U.S?

Did You Know?
That James Earl Ray, who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested in London.

02/26/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Who taught Fats Domino how to play the piano?

Did You Know?
That a slave introduced the concept of inoculation to our country. Onesimus, who was the slave of Cotton Mather, talked about the African practice of scratching infected cells from a sick person into a healthy one. He proved how this practice worked when smallpox broke out in Massachusetts. However, some colonists did not accept this practice, but it was used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War and prevented soldiers from getting smallpox. when they were exposed to it.

02/23/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Was the first African American judge in the state of Ohio, was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, and graduated from Zanesville High School with honors.

Did You Know?
That a Phillip Reid, a Black man, saved the statue that sits on top of the dome of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.? Thomas Crawford, living in Rome, was commissioned to create a statue that would sit on top of the Capitol, but he died after completing the statue in 1856 and its arrival in the U.S., but before it was mounted on top of the dome of the Capitol. An Italian worker assembled the statue on the grounds of the Capitol so everyone could see what it looked like. When he was asked to take the plaster model apart, he wanted a large sum of money, believing he was the only one who could take it apart without damaging it. However, Phillip Reid, owned by Clark Mills, was a skilled sculptor who had spent his life working in a foundry, knew how to take it apart skillfully, have it cast in bronze, have the sections lifted to the top of the dome and bolted together, until they blended into the majestic “Freedom” statue that stands on the top of the Capitol today.

02/23/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Was the first African American woman in the U.S. to write a nonfiction best seller?

Did You Know?
That a memorial was dedicated to the Wereth 11 in 1994. These were African American soldiers who fought on the front lines during WWII and managed to escape the Ardennes Offensive, but were later found by the N***s in Wereth, Belgium and were tortured and executed in a field. Despite their bravery and sacrifice, these eleven soldiers were omitted from the final Congressional War Crimes Report until their files were discovered seventy years later.

02/22/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Was one of nine children born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio and became a musical prodigy. When he became the chair of the music department at Antioch College, he became the first African American to chair a department in any non-black institution of higher learning in the United States. He was a skilled and talented musician and earned an international reputation as an organist and pianist. He later became chair of the Music Committee at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Did You Know?
Was one of nine children born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio and became a musical prodigy. When he became the chair of the music department at Antioch College, he became the first African American to chair a department in any non-black institution of higher learning in the United States. He was a skilled and talented musician and earned an international reputation as an organist and pianist. He later became chair of the Music Committee at the National Endowment for the Arts.

02/22/2022

Gant Black History Challenge
Guess Who?
Grew up in Zanesville, graduated from ZHS, and became an influential Big Band arranger, conductor, composer and singer. He also joined the Tommy Dorsey Band. Some of his famous compositions are “Sunny Side of the Street,” Taint Whatcha Do," and “My Blue Heaven."

Did You Know?
That Black men built the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.? More than 400 slaves comprised more than half of the documented workforce that constructed the Capitol, cleared trees from Jenkins Hill, baked the bricks for the foundation and walls, sawed lumber for the interior walls and floors, dug tranches for the foundation, worked the Virginia quarries where the sandstone was cut, and laid the stones that hold up the Capitol. They also rebuilt it after the British destroyed much of it in 1814. Public records attest to the fact that the owners of the slaves made $5.00 per month for each slave that worked on the Capitol.

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1845 W Main Street
Zanesville, OH
43701

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