Victoria+O.10

= **//__ 10-20-30 __//** = media type="file" key="P.Y.T..mp3" width="240" height="20" __** //10 years:// **__ //Who: Bernadine Odom (Mom)// //Song: P.Y.T// //Artist: Michael Jackson// Genre: Pop //Year: 1983// //Why?: "Back in my day I related to the song P.Y.T. because people use to call me a pretty young thing"// //Link: [|The Color Purple]// //Event: In 1982, Alice Walker's book, later made into a movie and broadway play, "The Color Purple" was first published. In 1983, it won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, making her the first African-American women to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.//

media type="file" key="Sing A Song.mp3" width="240" height="20" __** //20 years:// **__ //Who: Paula Williams (Aunt)// //Song: Sing A Song// //Artist:Earth,Wind, & Fire// Genre:R&B/Soul //Year:1975// //Why?:" It's a sweet sound to listen to when you are down, like the words say you can sing-a-song."// //Link:[|Frank Robinson]// //Event: In 1975, Frank Robinson became the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball. Born in Beaumont, Texas, August 31, 1935 he has always loved baseball and played it since he was a young boy.//

media type="file" key="Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine.mp3" width="240" height="20" __** //30 years:// **__ //Who: Edna Williams (Grandma)// //Song: I Heard It Through The Grapevine// //Artist: Marvin Gaye// Genre: R&B/Soul //Year: 1966// //Why?: " It was a easy song to dance to and the lyrics were so hard to forget"// //Link : [|Black Panther Party] // //Event: In 1966 a group called the Black Panther Party was founded. It was formed to help protect black people from the brutality of police, and to help non-guilty blacks to be freed from jail. This "revolutionary party" led to shoot-outs between the people associated in the group and white police officers, causing a murder of a patrolman shot by one of the leaders of the black panther party. From told to be violent and criminal acts, the Black Panther Party ended in the early 1980's.//