THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ED HOWARD

His credentials are unquestionable. Read his Bio.

I have a life time body of work to prove it. I have always used my money to produce the things that I believe in. Now for the first time I am asking you to donate funds so that young Black people can see this film showing Oakland’s Living Black Pioneers who are helping to start a Black Oakland Positive Image Movement.

Viewing this film is like making a connection to long lost great-grandparents, grand-parents or mother and father image being found again. This is the right direction to start a new POSITIVE BLACK OAKLAND IMAGE. View the trailer and you will see and feel what I am talking about.

Much Respect

Ed Howard
Producer, Director, Writer

THE SLAVE SYSTEM DOES NOT WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO BE POSITIVE ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT’S WHY THIS FILM MUST BE SHOWN.

Biography of Ed Howard
Ed Howard was raised in West Oakland. He attended Prescott elementary and Jr. High schools in the 1940s and early 50s, he graduated from McClymonds High School in 1955 Oakland, California. He bought his first car and became one of the original low riders in Oakland – probably the only low rider who attended college at that time. He Attended Oakland Merritt and Laney Technical College and graduated in 1959.

1961-1970 He was very key person in the Afro American Association and the Black Oakland community. Through his involvement (Afro American Association) he produced the TV talk show (1968-1970) in San Francisco on ABC Channel 7 attorney Don Warden (Kalid Al- Mansour) was the host and moderator for two years called Black Dignity. Many credited this show as being part of the reasons that Oakland did not burn in the 60s.

1962-1969 Ed was one of the Black men to pioneer the white collar line ( Black man warring a white shirt and tie to work) downtown Oakland working in the new Kaiser Center for Kaiser Engineers. He worked as a Mechanical Designer Draftsman in the Instrumentation department participating in the design of Industrial Processing plants in Africa, Australia, Jamaica and the USA.

Ed was promoted Assistant to the Vice President of Kaiser Engineers; placed on Kaiser Industries Advisory Board; he created the Summer Hiring Program and the Engineering Drafting Training Program primarily for young Black people of Oakland and was also the instructor and counselor for these programs. The drafting program consisted of the following disciplines – Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Architectural, Civil and Piping Configuration Engineering drawings.
The summer Hire program introduced young Black graduating high school students to the office work of the many companies of Kaiser Industries. Ed is always creating jobs for Black people.
These Kaiser programs set the tone for all the other Oakland corporations to hire Black people in jobs other than manual labor because Kaiser was the leading company in Oakland at that time.
These programs also were given credit for helping Oakland not to burn. We were too busy Thinking, Organizing, being Political, practicing Economic Development and Black Cultural Development.

1969-1973 – Ed Howard was Vice President of Social Dynamics Corporation, and entity he and his brother Ernest Howard owned. Their business had offices in Berkeley, California, Washington, DC and Kansas City, Kansas.

1973-1979 – Mr. Howard built the largest Black nightclub in Oakland called Ed Howard’s Place. The club showcased many of the top Black super star acts of the time and many of the Oakland Bay Area musicians.

1979 – 1999 – he moved to San Diego and started an Electro-Mechanical Design Engineering firm called EH Engineering, contracting with the Department of Defense specializing in research and development, solving problems, inventing solutions using Reverse Engineering and Configuration Engineering documentation methods for twenty years.

1999 to Present – Mr. Howard is President of “Kakakiki Company.”, which provides Product Design, Development, and Manufacture of Original Black Hair Tools and Business Advice.

Mr. Howard is also the Inventor and patient holder of the first comb/brush for the many textures of Black people’s hair called “The Kakakiki Comb Brush.”
We’ve always been an industrious people…

IT’S NOT TO LATE TO DONATE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2117483582/living-black-pionieers-west-oakland-ca-stories-194

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsaZA7_ezZc&feature=youtu.be