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Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago in 1790. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/Jean-Ba...

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Plantation owners demanded females start having children at 13. #BlackHistoryMonth ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/Post/plantat...

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How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/How-Bla...

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13 years ago today, at only 17, an unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman, fueling a movement. #BlackLivesMatter

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Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist, Rosa Parks! In 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and got arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws.

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John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old. He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Mood ✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Whoopi Goldberg and her mother, 1986.

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The Fascinating and Tragic story of the Fultz sisters who were Quadruplets. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/THE-FAS...

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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On this day in 1929, Civil Rights Movement leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Gone, but not forgotten. Rest in Power.

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Happy birthday to the late Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.

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On this day in 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students enrolled at the University of Georgia, were suspended. This was after thousands of white people violently rioted. They were initially denied enrollment but a federal judge ordered their admission

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It is so important for you and me to spend time today learning something about the past so that we can better understand the present, analyze it and then do something about it.” —Malcolm X

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Sesame Street was originally created for black & brown inner city kids. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/Sesame-...

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BASS REEVES, THE REAL LONE RANGER ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/BASS-RE...

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How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/How-Bla...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on vacation in Jamaica, 1965.

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Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that James Hemings, is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America. The Chef de cuisine was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8. ko-fi.com/post/James-H...

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Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that James Hemings, is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America. The Chef de cuisine was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8. ko-fi.com/post/James-H...

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At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children. You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN! ko-fi.com/Post/Yvette-...

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Happy 82nd birthday to Guion "Guy" Bluford, the first Black American in Space.

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If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.

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Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just 12 years old. She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person. A THREAD!

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Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just 12 years old. She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person. A THREAD!

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On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South. A visual reminder of what she faced every day.

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Selma Burke was a sculptor & member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, best known for her bas-relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt She never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was later featured on the US dime.

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments