UNSUNG MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY

“A MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY”:

Book Author Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr., is the first
African American to organize and lead a civil rights march to protest against
bullying, and racial profiling and discrimination in Public Schools in Augusta
Georgia!


Read about his inspiring works as a Community Leader by Author Nathan Van
Sertima: “Dr. Beckles vs. the Richmond County Board of Education” (Amazon.com).

www.aikenstandard.com/article/20160110/AIK0101/160119950/
Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr.
 CHURCH PASTOR, BOOK AUTHOR, & A NATIONAL HERO!!!
 "RESIDENT RUNS THROUGHOUT AIKEN COUNTY FOR ALS AWARENESS”
www.aikenstandard.com
 8/12/2015 9:45pm
 A local pastor ran across Aiken County to raise awareness of the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease Wednesday.
 The Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles, Jr., pastor and director of the Beckles Christian Academy, started in Clearwater and ran along the Aiken-Augusta Highway to raise funds to go toward research to cure ALS.
 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, is progressive neurodegenerative disease that effects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, according to the ALS Association’s website alsa.org
 Dr. Beckles’ father, the Rev. Franklyn V. Beckles, Sr. is suffering from the deadly disease.
 "I just want to help raise awareness of ALS to help research and find a cure,“ Dr. Beckles Jr. told Aiken Standard after completing his road run.
 Donations for ALS research can be sent to ALS Association Georgia Chapter, 5881 Glenridge Drive, Suite 200, Atlanta GA 30328 or ALS Association South Carolina Chapter 7499
 Parlane Road Suite 144, Columbia SC 29223

 Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Jr., and Mrs. Adrian Felicia Beckles (Parents) THEIR CHILDREN: Christian Alexander Beckles (Son) 10/23/02, Dayshia Jan’ee Beckles (Daughter) 6/16/09, Aleiyah Rosetrice Beckles (Daughter) 8/2/10, and Miracle Victoria Alese Beckles. And (Newborn Daughter) Samiyah Nevaeh Zuri Beckles 9/27/15…
 New family photos and pictures of the newborn will be advertised on the Aiken Standard newspaper and published on: Tumblr.com family webpages SOON!
 For now on, only a few family photos (all-new) will be exclusively published on Tumblr.com to conserve time.
 Read the latest eBooks by Dr. Frank Beckles on lulu.com
 Dr. Beckles’s next eBook is another Biography dedicated to his father and Civil Rights Pioneer: Professor Franklyn Victor Beckles, Sr. Titled -"A Hero in the fight against A.L.S.”
 LULU.COM
 "A HERO IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ALS"
 One of the greatest men I have ever known, is my father Professor Franklyn Victor Beckles, Sr. Born in Trinidad & Tobago in 1948. Mr. Beckles achieved what very few Black Immigrants ever accomplished. And that was to become a successful and educated businessman. In 1987, he was the first African American to become a College Professor and Dean of Education in the Computer Science Department at Aiken Technical College. He also was the first to establish the first all-black private school in Aiken, South Carolina, where racism is very intense and the fight against racial injustice has never abated. In 1991, he renamed the school “Aiken Academy”. Through his prestigious Christian School, Mr. Beckles enrolled hundreds of misfortunate kids who dropped out of school, or were kicked out, and neglected by the public school system of South Carolina and Georgia. Despite racist, feminist and politically corrupt governmental system of discrimination in America and particularly in the state of South Carolina. Professor Beckles became a civil rights pioneer; educating abandoned children from all backgrounds and circumstances, assisting needy children, and helping them to earn high school diplomas and college credits through his accredited Christian Private School. Nevertheless, Aiken County and Richmond County School Systems continued to fail African American students and forcing them to withdraw from public school due to administrative incompetence. Professor Beckles accomplished what most public schools and junior colleges failed to do, and that was to provide quality education for minority and disabled kids and aide them into getting prominent jobs, careers, service in the U.S. Armed Forces, and acceptance into prestigious universities all over the country! For 27 years, my father has successfully graduated over 65,000 students with high school diplomas and certificates from Aiken Academy (students that society gave up on), and assisted these deserving students to become productive citizens. My father is an inspiring true hero, who recently became diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). A nervous system disease that weakens muscles and impacts physical function. Despite all odds, Professor Beckles refuses to give into this deadly illness and retire from teaching and mentoring kids. Instead he continues to fight for survival and manage his renowned private school from a hospital bed! With the help of me and my mother; Samella Beckles, a good wife who faithfully cares for husband despite incompetent medical treatment due to an influx of lousy medical doctors, hospitals, and attorneys in the notoriously racist and corrupt Central Savannah River Area. Nevertheless, Mr. Beckles never gives up, and my family and I don’t either! That is why his story needs to be heard. My father had risked his life and career as a College Professor to mentor and teach underprivileged kids, helping them when society gave up on them. He is a loving husband to my mother, who also dedicated her life to helping others in need as a registered nurse for over 30 years! An ordained minister, community leader, and honorary PhD. recipient, Rev. Dr. Franklyn Victor Beckles, Sr., the father of 3 children, has always utilized family and faith in God to motivate himself and others to fight social injustice, advocate for civil rights, and strive to accomplish their dreams. Today, I continue to honor my father and his legacy, by becoming a respected Community Leader, Political Candidate for the Board of Education, being a good husband and father to my five children, and carrying on the heritage of Aiken Academy as its new Headmaster. With the blessing of my father, resumed his duties to educate neglected students from the Richmond County Public School System. I relocated his legendary private school to Augusta GA., and renamed it the: Beckles Christian Academy, in his honor. As an ordained Church Pastor with a PhD. in Theology. I have continued to incorporate Christian and Bible based values and education to the private school system to minister to and help underprivileged children, and I also established an accredited Home School Educational Program to graduate mistreated minority and disabled children who were neglected by the scandalous and corrupted Richmond County Board of Education -(Note: the groundbreaking biographical eBook by Nathan Van Sertima -“Dr. Beckles vs. The Richmond County Board of Education”, based on true events, featured on Amazon.com). Now I am also an accomplished Book Author, Historian, Modern Civil Rights Pioneer, Firefighter, and a Triathlete who competes in local marathons to help Georgia Regents University’s ALS Department raise money for medical research in finding a cure to eradicate Lou Gehrig’s disease. You, the reader can also help fight against ALS and bring awareness to this vicious disease which kills more than 5,600 people each year! Please donate to a credible and licensed medical association that is dedicated to using its funds to finding a cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Something needs to be done, they are numerous dreadful diseases that are killing Americans, yet our nation’s leaders are spending more money and resources on products that will kill us, rather than save American lives and improve our Healthcare System! Despite this wicked world that we live in, I will continue to do my part as a true Christian. By helping people in need like my father, and serving the Lord Jesus Christ, with honor and integrity like Rev. Franklyn V. Beckles, Sr. His proud legacy will endure forever!

 (2014-Present): Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles, Jr., is currently a successful published book author!!!
 THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST SUCCESSFUL & POPULAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS THAT REVOLUTIONIZED EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY:
 My father and I didn’t like the direction America is going in regards to many things that compromise moral values, but our biggest concern was how often the Public School System in this country keeps failing our youth.
 Especially when it comes to African American male students. Like the classic song by Harry Melvin & The Blue Notes says; “Wake up everybody”, American public schools keep lagging in quality education for all students, and it’s not going to improve unless we all work together to do something about it.
 For over 25 years that’s exactly what my father and I have been doing, to improve the crisis with embattled & poorly managed public schools in our community.
 Back in 1988, my father had a vision to help all children despite discrimination, who were mistreated or neglected by the Aiken Counties & Augusta Public School Systems.
 Together my family and I opened an accredited private school, to properly educate kids who were unfairly expelled or forced to drop out of school by incompetent teachers and administrators.
 My father started “Aiken Academy”, and enrolled many children from all over South Carolina and Georgia!
 With the help of my family and me, Principal Franklyn V. Beckles, Sr., was eventually able to successfully educate thousands of students looking for private school education, to rectify the problems that they had with public school education.
 Soon students came to him for help from across the country! Aiken Academy aided students in earning high school diplomas, college credits for prestigious universities, employment for good jobs, and enlisting in the U.S. Military.
 After graduating from college, I became the Vice President at Aiken Academy and carried on my father’s work whenever he was overseas on Outreach Missionary Trips for Christian Education.
 During which; I developed important skills as an educator, that I would later use in establishing my own private school in Augusta, Georgia.
 I had a fierce pride for my father, and by what he accomplished in helping thousands of high school drop outs through his respectable private school.
 My father’s work inspired me to carry on his legacy in many ways, including becoming a notable civil rights leader, advocating against bullying and racism in local public schools.
 I started “The Children’s Christian Center” in 2009, and with the support of my wife & children, this private school continued helping children of all ages who were victimized by the Richmond County School System, and Board of Education.
 I also became more active as a Community Leader & Volunteer Firefighter, and ran for political office as a new District Board Member for the Richmond County Board of Education.
 My love for helping people as an ordained minister, allowed me to incorporate Christianity into private education (which is usually not allowed in public schools), and taught Biblical studies along with our secular class studies.
 Helping people and saving lives has always been a Beckles Family tradition; from ancient times unto my kid’s generation, I’m proud of the fact that my family’s history always involved working in: Christian Ministry, Education, Military Service, Law Enforcement, and Healthcare fields to support our communities & help our country!
 My prayers are that my children one day continue to serve God, and help others in need.
 Watching my father dedicate his life to assisting people in need was my “wake up” call for me to honor God by doing the same thing.
 Neither one of us could have accomplished it alone, without the love and support of God, my mother (Mrs. Samella Beckles), and my wife (Mrs. Adrian Beckles) & kids: (Christian, Dayshia, Aleiyah, and Miracle Beckles).
 My wife and kids were my greatest inspiration to persevere through the struggles of being an unsung hero like my father.
 Even as a Volunteer Firefighter & church Pastor, for many years there were times I just wanted to give up, because many people my family and I helped were very ungrateful.
 And with the alarming issues of immorality developing in America, including with: satanic influences like feminism, racism, modern paganism, and man’s inhumanity to man.
 Doing the right thing sometimes seem almost impossible, that’s why as a country we all desperately need to WAKE UP!
 Fortunately, my son Christian Beckles helps stay encouraged by being a hero himself.
 When he was bullied and victimized at School at the age of 11, my wife and I decided to enroll him into our private school.
 Despite all odds, he excelled as a student, and helped me in my political campaign to become a Board of Education Member.
 Now, Christian is at the top of his class at a prestigious charter school.
 My father’s legacy in Education continues to live on in us, and inspires people in our community today.
The End


(Credit Historical Articles By: © Emily Rose Bennett/Published Book Author: Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles, Jr./ZUMAPRESS.com)“