I'm challenging my followers to find & share at least 1 thing about Black History this month. Facts about famous people, inventions, events, etc.
Preferably an article or other writings.
*Pin this post & add to it throughout the month so we can all learn something new!
Preferably an article or other writings.
*Pin this post & add to it throughout the month so we can all learn something new!
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The first African American to be elected into the United States Congress in 1968 as she represented New York's 12th congressional district of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
She's also an activist for civil rights and women's rights.
Garret an African American was quite the inventor. But one invention was the three light system we use today for traffic.
Tuskegee fighter group in WWII lost less bombers they were protecting than any other fighter group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoFBD7p7Vg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0kcmb16/listen-to-the-earliest-known-country-song-ever-recorded
1923, Cleveland OH
First Patented Three-Position Traffic Signal.
Safer design than the signal with only 2 lights, red and green.
Also
1912 his patent on
Safety Hood and Smoke Protector
Invented other products.
https://www.blackmusicproject.com/exhibit/the-roots-of-the-banjo
Octavia Butler (6/22/47 – 2/24/06) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Willie O’Ree
Together We are Stronger
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of safe houses and routes that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.
https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/web-du-bois
https://www.nps.gov/people/crispus-attucks.htm
https://youtu.be/SPLSp7Tf3bw?si=zSSkscFi9rjULE4p
“Racism is a by-product of capitalism”
https://bsky.app/profile/justingee69.bsky.social/post/3lh7xwb47nk2t
#TuskegeeAirmen
Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week at his home in Michigan. He was 100.
CBS Evening News - One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen dies at 100 https://youtu.be/b1BYgxr5X9w?feature=shared via @YouTube
Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Nobel_laureates
I honour them all, especially those awarded in the Peace category!
Dr. Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe for the treatment of cataracts and continues to passionately fight for the prevention, treatment, and cure of blindness.
https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=27339
An American scientist and inventor who patented the illusion transmitter in 1980. After seeing an illusion that involved concave mirrors and light bulbs in a museum, she became curious about how she might apply concave mirrors in her work at NASA.
https://www.domestika.org/en/blog/6982-who-is-valerie-thomas-and-what-is-the-illusion-transmitter
A very interesting and nearly forgotten story.
(For those unsure an international player is one who plays for his country)
https://youtu.be/ik4iBboKu_E?si=sXVyjJ6Go-dcceJc
(though I'm not happy the whereabouts of his mother is unknown, and lasting shame on his father)
https://www.biography.com/scientists/george-washington-carver
Mayor Coleman Young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Young
He was a PhD in Physics and didn't look down on the rest of us Bachelors and Masters with disdain like most in my field.
That's a hero to me, personally.
Madam C.J. Walker created a line of haircare products for African American women, leading her to later become the first female African American self-made millionaire. There is now a Netflix series based upon her journey, titled Self Made.
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a35181062/black-history-facts/
https://youtu.be/JJTNxlLT0as?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/5JrtRhsxWyY?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/y4AJiob2KB8?feature=shared
One day, she may get a chance to lead this country.
Thank you @repjasmine.bsky.social!
https://www.voanews.com/a/enslaved-black-man-created-world-s-most-popular-whiskey/6271051.html
https://youtu.be/WIcHdNR-PCs?si=M0vWHEhN2u875Yq0
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/11/opinions/sidney-poitier-civil-rights-joseph/index.html
(Sammy Davies Jr.)
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sdj19.ss.civilrights/celebrities-activism-and-the-civil-rights-movement/
https://www.abhmuseum.org/the-slaves-dread-new-years-day-the-worst-the-grim-history-of-january-1/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Battle-Of-Bamber-Bridge/
Trump is trying to eliminate it...just do a search to read about it...
Black history is 🇺🇸history.
We’re supposed to learn from history so we won’t repeat bad💩; The increasing anti-DEI, Trans & Woke rhetoric from DJT, echoed by (R) Party & blanket commutations/pardons for violent J6ers mimics prelude to🇺🇸’s #RedSummer.
https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration
Also, she was for a time a follower of the Prophet Matthias.
Coined the lyrics "Squeeze my lemon
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/5-times-sister-rosetta-tharpe-led-the-way-in-the-development-of-rock-guitar
Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first Black man to build motorized cars. His father, Charles Rich Patterson, a slave, created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company, located in Greenfield, Ohio. The first Patterson automobile, the 👇
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/frederick-douglas-patterson-1871-1932/
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She attended Howard University and Barnard College.
The Hilltop was co-founded by her. I love the birthdate listed in its Twitter profile
The Hilltop @TheHilltopHU
A thing is mighty big when time & distance cannot shrink it. That's how vivid my memory is of the colorful Dr. Reser of Pont Beudet. I'm breaking a promise by writing this, & maybe the cocks are crowing because of it, but all the cocks in creation can crow three times if they must.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41334538/frederick-douglas-patterso
https://ourbloodinstitute.org/blood-matters/dr-charles-r-drew/
https://thesherman.org/2022/02/24/edmond-albius-and-the-story-of-vanilla/
🌈
#StrongerTogether #BlueResisters #TrueBlue #BlueCrew
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Good trouble
5calls.org call your senators
💙
#50505 national protest 🪧 Feb 5
https://redwine.blue/troublenation/
https://shorturl.at/Bh9t1 zom feb2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAy3WY06LA
Richard & Mildred Loving
A 1967 US Supreme Court ruling on a case involving this couple's marriage.
The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution protects the right to interracial marriage
Loretta Pleasant-Lacks 1 Aug 1920-4 Oct 1951 (aged 31)
African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in Med Res.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11698761/henrietta-lacks
29 Aug 1910- 25 Nov 1985
African-American pioneer who overcame the barriers imposed by a segregated society.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10372340/vivien-theodore-thomas
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1247/harriet-tubman
Carl M. Brashear (1931-2006) was the first African American master diver and the first amputee diver in the Navy.
"I ain't gonna Let NOBODY STEAL MY DREAM"
The Lewis & Clark Class Dry Cargo/Amm Ship USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) was named in his honor.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15044278/carl-maxie-brashear
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197241706/rebecca-crumpler
Born: September 1844, Independence, MO
Died: 1893 (age 49 years), Trinidad, CO
The only known female Buffalo Soldier, who disguised herself as a man named "William Cathay" to enlist in the Union army during the Civil War
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260270936/cathay-cuffee-williams
American lawman 1st deputy U.S. Marshal,
of African descent in the American West. Born a slave in Arkansas. Bass spoke the languages of several Native American tribes Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole & Creek. Known for: 4,000 arrests
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8584642/bass-reeves
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fats-Domino
https://goodblacknews.org/2020/11/17/commander-victor-glover-makes-history-as-1st-african-american-astronaut-to-live-on-international-space-station/
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Later we’d discover that it was “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten and I was able to find a recording for her. The term Cotten Picking comes from her left hand playing her guitar upside down.
Belle da Costa Greene
Anyone who doesn't know should because more barriers are occurring right now. Keep fighting & rising!
https://time.com/6050811/tulsa-black-wall-street/
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/banjos-smithsonian
data
https://www.history.com/news/jesse-owens-adolf-hitler-1936-olympics
https://youtu.be/UQyPXOHvwEc?si=iS2xmlmrrdEs3Q8k
"Who Are The Tuskegee Airmen?"
"The story behind the airmen and their double victory"
https://www.pbs.org/articles/who-are-the-tuskegee-airmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtHvetGnOdM