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Black Freikorps member, Munich, 1919.
Context: the description of this picture reveals that this man was from German East Africa (now part of Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania) and a member of the Freikorps “Lettow-Vorbeck”.
Freikorps were paramilitary groups, mostly made up of former soldiers. They often held conservative or right-wing or monarchist views and were usually against the Weimar government. Although they were sometimes used by the government to quell uprisings or strikes.
This Freikorps gets its name from German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who was active in German East Africa during WW1. Also known as the “Lion of Africa”, he managed to hold back British forces, numbering 300 000, with only 14 000 soldiers, for most of the war. He was never defeated or captured during all of this. He was the last German General to surrender, doing so on 25 November 1918, 2 weeks after the armistice was signed.
All of this earned him great respect both in Germany and Britain.
Context: the description of this picture reveals that this man was from German East Africa (now part of Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania) and a member of the Freikorps “Lettow-Vorbeck”.
Freikorps were paramilitary groups, mostly made up of former soldiers. They often held conservative or right-wing or monarchist views and were usually against the Weimar government. Although they were sometimes used by the government to quell uprisings or strikes.
This Freikorps gets its name from German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who was active in German East Africa during WW1. Also known as the “Lion of Africa”, he managed to hold back British forces, numbering 300 000, with only 14 000 soldiers, for most of the war. He was never defeated or captured during all of this. He was the last German General to surrender, doing so on 25 November 1918, 2 weeks after the armistice was signed.
All of this earned him great respect both in Germany and Britain.
During World War 2, American soldier John R. Fox sadly died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party's position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
How we still fuck with these people I'll never understand.A Congolese child amputated for not meeting quota - Congo-Leopoldville, 1904
Uhh? Thank you for your service brotha, but hell naw!During World War 2, American soldier John R. Fox sadly died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party's position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
I remember people making arguments for the death penalty saying no one has ever been put death who was innocent, that's obviously a lie. He was innocent and only 14 years old and put to death.. Smh!George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person sentenced to death in the United States. He was only 14 when he was executed by electric chair in 1944.
This is so sad. Yet we fight so hard for the superiority of white devils in Israel.A Congolese child amputated for not meeting quota - Congo-Leopoldville, 1904
shuffling them cd's .....Muhammad Ali, 1963
Ali was light years ahead of the car audio game.
Origin of the Black Panther symbol....
Sabrina Chebichi Kenyan athlete who won the 1973 marathon barefoot and in a dress.
https://artsandculture.google.com/s...-mohamed-amin-foundation/6wXxvDaneD2F4Q?hl=en
https://artsandculture.google.com/s...-mohamed-amin-foundation/6wXxvDaneD2F4Q?hl=en
Martin Lawrence was in Do the Right Thing...lol. He was slyly lettin' folks know on The Martin Show.....
Black Panther H. Rap Brown's book........
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943)
Now he's a political prisoner for over 20 years, FREE HIM!!!!
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943)
Now he's a political prisoner for over 20 years, FREE HIM!!!!
Consuelo Kanaga
After Years of Hard Work (Tennessee)
1948
Toned gelatin silver print
20 1/16 × 15 1/16 × 1 1/2 in. (51 × 38.3 × 3.8cm) framed
Miles Davis and Andy Warhol backstage for the Kohshin Satoh fashion show at the Tunnel in New York City on February 17, 1987.
Malcolm X probably would have been a photographer or a filmmaker......if White Supremacy hadn't taken up all of his time.
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The address on the house behind these well-appointed gentlemen suggests it was the home of George and Fronia Butcher at 2001 U St. Butcher (thought to be the taller man) was born in Philadelphia in 1874, and died at the VA Hospital in Lincoln in 1958. He worked for the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad as a porter and for Burlington as a laborer in the Havelock Shops. Fronia Butcher was even more long-lived, reaching 100 years (1879-1979).The dapper man with the cane remains unidentified. The photograph is among many taken in Lincoln on black and white glass negatives by African-American photographers John Johnson and Earl McWilliams between 1910 and 1925.
Century-old pictures of black Lincolnites to hang in new national museum
Historic photographs depicting black Lincolnites at the turn of the 20th Century — and taken by a black photographer — will hang in the new National Museum of African American
“Huck and Jim in Their Final Years”
In 1903, on his last visit to his in-laws at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York, Mark Twain (1835-1910) posed for this photograph with his friend, John T. Lewis (1835-1906), who was born a free man in Maryland and who had migrated to upstate New York. They met in 1877 after Lewis saved the lives of Twain’s sister-in-law and her daughter by courageously stopping their runaway carriage at no small risk to his own safety. Lewis was an Elder in the Church of the Brethren (the Dunkers), and he and Twain often talked about religion and other such matters. Lewis loved to read, and Twain would send him every one of his books when they came out, with a loving inscription in each one. After Lewis retired from farming, Twain and his in-laws arranged to have him receive a pension. When Twain returned to writing Huckleberry Finn, in 1879 while at Elmira, Lewis was one of the real-life people upon whom he based the character of Jim, and it is even possible that his acquaintance with Lewis caused Twain to continue working on the novel after having earlier set it aside.
Twain’s friendship with Lewis was hardly atypical; of all the white authors in this period, he was the one most fully immersed in and appreciative of African American culture and the one most at home in the company of African Americans. Near the end of his life he recalled a time in New York City when he was walking with another black friend, George Griffin, and people stared at them: "a 'white man' & a negro walking together was a new spectacle to them. The glances embarrassed George, but not me, for the companionship was proper: in some ways he was my equal, in some others my superior.”
Published in 1884/1885, Huckleberry Finn is about a racist boy’s realization of the full humanity of a fugitive slave. Ten years later, in Pudd’nhead Wilson, Twain would deconstruct the very idea of race itself as nothing more than "a fiction of law and custom" without any basis in biology. As Toni Morrison stated, "Mark Twain talked about racial ideology in the most powerful, eloquent, and instructive way I have ever read."
Mark Twain and John T. Lewis are both buried with their families in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.