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Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln University, (1946).
Did you read what the photographer wrote for a blatantly racist fucking caption of the picture? Pause the video at 3:30.This muhfucka wrote that Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity was like talking to an empty room. This is coming from a "Freelance" photographer about Undergrad students who surely are more educated than his ass is. FOH!
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The Black Swallow of Death, Eugene Jacques Bullard
Seeing his father narrowly escaping lynching in Georgia caused Eugene Jacque Bullard to hop a tramp steamer at the age of 16, working his passage to France. Enlisting during the Great War, he fought as part of the French Foreign Legion on the western front as a machine gunner.
Bullard was in some of the worst battles of the war, including the Somme and Verdun. During 1915 his united received 50% casualties and was broken up. He joined the famed 170th Regiment and was awarded several medals for gallantry, including the Croix de Guerre. He was wounded at Verdun and had to recuperate for months. He decided to go to aviator school so he could continue service.
In October of 1916, Bullard signed on with the French air service and began flight training. By the following year he was piloting Spads and Nieuports with the 93rd Escadrille against German warplanes over the Verdun sector. A capable aviator, Eugene quickly earned the nickname the “Black Swallow of Death” (an homage to his former regiment, the 170th known as Les Hirondelles de la Mort). Heralded as one of the only black pilots of the war (and a decorated one at that), he enjoyed notoriety in the French press.
Following America’s entry to the war, Bullard applied for a transfer to the nascent U.S. Army flying corps that was assembling in France. Despite his considerable combat experience, the American military rejected him because of his race
After the war he lived in Paris, where he worked at a prize fighter and as a jazz drummer at the French night club Zelli's. He was successful in both and later toured in Alexandria, Egypt, waging prize fights by day and jazz concerts by night.
He became a well known figure in higher social circles in Paris, going on to start his own athletic club and becoming one of the first personal trainers for the 'culture physique' in the country.
As a war hero, Jazz musician, club manager, and with access to the elite of Paris, he managed to parlay that into ownership of his own night club. It thrived, and there he was friends with legendary performers of the black scene in Paris. These luminaries included Josephine Baker, Louie Armstrong, and Langston Hughes.
When war broke out against the Hun once again in 1939, French intelligence approached Bullard. His night club was very popular with the Germans in the city, Bullard himself spoke flawless German, and he accepted a role as a spy to help his adopted country. When Paris fell in 1940, Bullard lost everything, and he returned to the United States.
He attempted to return after the liberation of the City of Lights, but his club had been burnt to the ground. He was forced back into a very segregated society. In 1949, he was a central figure in the Peekskill riots.
The riots occurred because of a concert that black activist Paul Robeson gave for civil rights. Ex-Soldiers accused Robeson of communist sympathies, and beat dozens of people with bats, rocks and clubs. Bullard himself was attacked and beaten by law enforcement. No charges were ever pressed against his attackers.
Robeson lived in obscurity in the States, getting a job as an elevator operator and living in a small New York apartment. But France remembered. In 1954, he was one of three Americans who were requested to come to Paris and light the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe.
And when President Charles de Gaulle visited in 1959, he demanded to meet the famous Black Swallow of Death, soldier, aviator, and spy. de Gaulle was saddened at how he had been treated in America. He was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle, who called Bullard a "véritable héros français" ("true French hero"). He also was awarded the Médaille militaire, another high military distinction, the 3rd highest award offered by France.
Bullard is one of a long line of black heroes long overlooked in American history, from Mary Bowser to John Smalls to Bass Reeves. It is good that their stories are now beginning to be told, and that men and women such as these are no longer held in obscurity.
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There's a new book about him. I knew his story. I couldn't figure out why people like him, Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker and James Baldwin preferred Europe. I thought to myself "there's no black people over there. Why the fuck would you want live there. They've got to be racist as fuck too". Then I realized it's because racism isn't codified by law over there. A motherfucker can hate you but you don't have to give up your seat on the bus to him. You didn't have to use a separate rest room. You can look another man in the eye without worrying about lynching. The whole legal and polictical system aren't set up to suppress you.
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Clinton, Tennessee (1956) via the LIFE Photo Collection
Petersburg, Virginia. Protests and training for lunch counter sit-in harassment. (1960).
In 1974, Englewood native, Mary Wallace, drove into history when she became the first woman to drive a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus. Wallace was a popular driver who remained on the job for 33 years before retiring. “I used to work for the Planning & Placement Center when I was going to college, and we had job orders for CTA bus drivers. So I decided I wanted to check this out for myself, and I did. I went for three years, and they kept saying no...” “I would get cheers from the ladies and stares from the guys,” Wallace said in an interview with Chicago Sun-Times in 2007, recalling the start of her career with the CTA in 1974.Mary Wallace: First female bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (Colourised)
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Thank you my BGOL Brothaz!
Thank you my BGOL Brothaz!
Yeh it's Joe Louis
I was six years old...wow.
This is the height of arrogance. Other than of course physical brutality, I can't imagine anything worse.
California Once Tried to Ban Black People.
The new state’s leaders banned slavery—but tried to kick free black people out. When Peter Burnett took the podium in Sacramento in 1849, he faced a group of men like him—pioneers determined to take California from an upstart territory to a full-fledged state. He had been elected California’s first governor just a day before, and as he addressed his fellow legislators, he brought up one of the most explosive issues of his time: the place of black people in the future state.
California had decided to ban slavery after a heated debate, but Burnett’s vision didn’t include black residents at all. “It could be no favor, and no kindness, to permit [free blacks] to settle in the State,” he said, “while it would be a most serious injury to us….Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measures to expel them…the object is to keep them out.”
Burnett wasn’t alone in his vision of a California that banned black people. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, California citizens and legislators fought to ensure that free black people would be prohibited from immigrating to or living in California. And though their efforts eventually failed, they reflected the fear and racism faced by black people in the American West.
This is a photo of a miner in the Auburn Ravine during the Gold Rush, California, 1852.
The new state’s leaders banned slavery—but tried to kick free black people out. When Peter Burnett took the podium in Sacramento in 1849, he faced a group of men like him—pioneers determined to take California from an upstart territory to a full-fledged state. He had been elected California’s first governor just a day before, and as he addressed his fellow legislators, he brought up one of the most explosive issues of his time: the place of black people in the future state.
California had decided to ban slavery after a heated debate, but Burnett’s vision didn’t include black residents at all. “It could be no favor, and no kindness, to permit [free blacks] to settle in the State,” he said, “while it would be a most serious injury to us….Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measures to expel them…the object is to keep them out.”
Burnett wasn’t alone in his vision of a California that banned black people. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, California citizens and legislators fought to ensure that free black people would be prohibited from immigrating to or living in California. And though their efforts eventually failed, they reflected the fear and racism faced by black people in the American West.
This is a photo of a miner in the Auburn Ravine during the Gold Rush, California, 1852.
Lieutenant John Warren was posthumously awarded a Medal of Honor and Purple Heart for falling onto a grenade to save others from the explosion during a conflict in the Tây Ninh Province of South Vietnam as part of Operation Toan Thang II. On January 14, 1969, Warren was commanding a platoon that came under intense fire while moving through a rubber plantation to reinforce another friendly unit. As Lieutenant Warren and several other men maneuvered through fire towards the enemy position, an enemy grenade was thrown directly into the middle of his small group. Warren fell in the direction of the grenade, shielding the men around him from the blast. His efforts saved three other men from serious or mortal energy.
Ain't gonna lie...I looked this up. Bout to fuck up a whole lot of heads around my way.....
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A long time ago I saw Haile Selassie in an encyclopedia and they said he was a direct descendant of King Solomon, Cleopatra, Queen of Sheba, Jesus, etc. But it is strange as time passes they must have already planned to play along until they can get rid of certain things. I feel it is the same way with many artifacts about our true identity and our true history. Even with their secret militarizes to hid and destroy true evidence of so called ufo's. They study our technology in secrecy and deny where they got the source from. Bill Gates was suppose to be rich from computer and software. Some have said even that technology come from studying ufo's in secrecy. Same with lasers, night vision, and there are vehicles I have seen on youtube that float around 5 feet off of the ground. And they make no sound at all. There are scientist that have been working around the clock 24 hours a day 7 days a week trying to back engineer a ufo so they can introduce it to the world from a white perspective. I am wondering why youtube has had the silent vehicles that float on their for years and there is not much interest from the public on it. Same with the invisibility cloak etc. Seems like everybody would be fully looking into these things as total investigators. Same with solar energy and other things that have been here for a lot of years but we are so busy playing and having fun on the plantation that we pay in no attention.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photographs by Gordon Parks (1950) via the LIFE Photo Collection
Chicago. Photographs by Declan Haun (1968)
DID YOU KNOW: For little over a year Michael Jackson and Stephanie Mills dated and were in a relationship.
I'm willing to bet this is from 1974 rather 1969.
Tatum O'neal, Randy Jackson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jackson, Margot Kidder and Dan Aykroyd
One of my favorite pics ever!
I met Margot Kidder once in the 80s. I was a security guard at a Condominium Complex in Hollywood, and she came to see some producer who lived there.
She creeped me out a bit, because she looked like a walking skeleton: ghostly white / skin & bones.
She creeped me out a bit, because she looked like a walking skeleton: ghostly white / skin & bones.