Rare and very interesting photos

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In November 1866, Cathay Williams became the 1st African American woman to serve in the U.S. Army, and the only woman to serve in the U.S. Army as a Buffalo Soldier. Williams was born to an enslaved mother and a free father in Independence, Missouri in 1844. At 17 years old, Williams first served as an Army cook and a washerwoman. During this time, African Americans who had been captured were forced to serve in military support as contraband for Union forces. Williams enlisted in the U.S. Regular Army under the false name “William Cathay” on November 15, 1866. She was assigned to the 38th U.S. infantry Regiment, one of the all-black regiments recently established, that would become part of the renown Buffalo Soldiers. The Army did not require full medical exams at the time, so she was able to pass as a man.⠀
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When Williams began to feel the effects of smallpox and was hospitalized, it was discovered that she was actually a woman. Williams was honorably discharged by her commanding officer, Captain Charles E. Clarke, on October 14, 1868. Following her discharge, Williams went to work as a cook at Fort Union, New Mexico, and later moved to Pueblo, Colorado. Around 1889 or 1890, Williams entered a hospital and applied for disability pension based on her medical service. Her request was denied. In 1893, a doctor’s examination revealed that Williams suffered from neuralgia and diabetes. She had all her toes amputated and walked with a crutch. The doctor determined that she did not qualify for disability payments. While the exact date of her death is unknown, it is believed that Williams died shortly after she was denied.

 

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Girls with Barbies, East Harlem. 1970

 

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Pullman Porters made berths, kept cars in order and washrooms clean, and handled baggage. Perhaps their most significant contribution during the Great Migration was their practice of covertly distributing the Chicago Defender in southern cities, spreading news about northern opportunities and better treatment. White distributors in the South refused to carry the paper, so porters distributed the paper through an underground network. The newspapers were then circulated hand to hand or read in local restaurants and barbershops. Through this ad-hoc distribution, hundreds of thousands of black southerners had access to the newspaper, which many came to see as a trusted guide.⠀
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The Chicago Defender not only created a sense of place and an important lens into Chicago life, politics, and culture, but also served as an engine of ideas and opinions that galvanized black people nationwide. In the first half of the 20th Century, the Chicago Defender helped draw tens of thousands of African Americans to Chicago and make the city their home. Channeling the energy of “The Black Metropolis,” the Defender helped publicize the careers of influential Chicago residents, from a range of professions. The Chicago Defender gave a voice to the voiceless. It left an enduring legacy that will never be forgotten.

 

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Start of super heating union. [Inventor Charles S.L. Baker and another man, possibly his brother Peter, standing behind heating (radiator) system.] Feb. 12, 1906.

 

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Chicago 1977

 

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Free clothing being offered at an event sponsored by the Black Panther Party in New Haven, Connecticut in 1969. During the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement, in particular, community self-determination was central to many peoples’ struggles. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense sought social justice for black people and other oppressed communities through a combination of revolutionary theory, education, and community programs. Their party platform, better known as the Ten Point Program, arose from the Black Panthers’ assessment of the social and economic conditions in their community. It became part of the party’s philosophical backbone and served as a model for many other community groups such as the Brown Berets, the Young Lords, and the Red Guard.

 

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Federal Marshal, Wallace Downs rides with Gail Etienne to McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 14, 1960. The first-grader was one of the McDonogh Three, a nickname for the three black six year old girls who were the first black students to enroll in the previously all-white school in the city. Even though segregated schools had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, no states in the American South had taken action to integrate their schools. Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost had all attended the black-only schools in their neighborhood, until November 14, 1960, when they arrived at a previously all-white segregated school called McDonogh No. 19. On the same day, another six year old black girl named Ruby Bridges integrated a second New Orleans public school called William Frantz Elementary.

McDonogh Three - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The little girls who desegregated New Orleans schools

On Nov. 14, 1960, three little girls made their way up the steps of McDonogh 19 Elementary School in the company of U.S. marshals.

www.nola.com

Gail Etienne (far right) with the McDonogh Three in 2004

 

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The Dodge City Crips 1979. Housing projects of San Pedro, California

Terrorist. N'erdowells

 

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/

 

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Great knowledge drops

 

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Willa B. Player became the president of Bennett College in 1956, cementing her as the first African-American woman in the United States to be named president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college. She became known for her advocacy for her students as the surrounding region went through significant political turmoil. During the height of demonstrations in Greensboro, almost 40% of the student body was jailed. President Player visited students daily and ensured that professors held class and administered exams for jailed students.

 

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The National Society of Black Engineers, also referred to as NSBE, was founded in 1975 on Purdue University Campus in West Lafayette, Indiana as a means of reducing the high attrition rate of Black students at the university. In its first year, the organization spread from Purdue to a total of 32 schools and 48 students across the country, all of whom attended the first national NSBE Conference. NSBE is one of the largest student-run organizations in the United States to this day, with over 30,000 members worldwide, 310 collegiate student chapters, 99 pre-college programs, and 88 professional chapters.

 

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Newly-Uncovered Letters From 'Peanuts' Creator Are Causing A Major Controversy

The Controversial Letter Written By 'Peanuts' Creator Is Catching People Off Guard

It was kept quiet for years.

i.honesttopaws.com

Clickbait article but here is the gist

Though the comic was a major representation of its creator, it was simultaneously, and perhaps unavoidably, a reflection of American society. And in that reflection some people couldn't help but notice one blaring omission.

In the world outside the comic strip, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inimitably impactful figure. Though his assassination in 1968 shook thousands to their core, it also motivated his followers to be proactive about the racial inequity crisis.

One such follower was ex-teacher and mother-of-three, Harriet Glickman. In the wake of King's death, Harriet felt she needed to do something to carry on his critical mission. But how much could she really accomplish from the suburbs of California?

As the matriarch of a self-declared Peanuts-oriented family, she decided this was how she would target her efforts. So, in April of 1968, she wrote a letter to another one of her idols, Mr. Charles M. Schulz.

In her letter, Harriet implored Schulz to consider including a black character into the Peanuts. Having this representation, she wrote, could "help change those conditions which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate and violence."

Schulz expressed his fear that, as a white cartoonist, incorporating a black character might be perceived as patronizing to the black community. He agreed this needed to happen, but he was uncertain he was in a position to incite that change.

Harriet understood Schulz's fear and hesitation, so she decided to take the cartoonist's earnest response to someone who could actually confront his concern. Fortunately, she had just the man in mind.

Kenneth C. Kelly was a friend of Harriet and a black father who also happened to be a fan of Peanuts. Kelly wrote Schulz a letter himself, letting him know that an accusation of being patronizing would be a small price to pay for all the good that would accrue.

Black people were almost exclusively represented as supernumerary characters in prisons or ghettos, so having a black character amongst the Peanuts friends would be a different and needed show of inclusion.

Kelly highlighted two things a black character could do. "Firstly, it would ease my problem of having my kids seeing themselves pictured in the overall American scene. Secondly, it would suggest racial amity in a casual day-to-day sense."

In early July, three months after Harriet first wrote Schulz, he sent her one final letter. In it, he promised her that he had taken the first step in representing a black child in his comic. He believed she would be pleased.

True to his word, on July 31st, 1968, Franklin — an African American boy — made his first appearance in the newspaper comic strip. He was not just a supernumerary character. He was a friend of Charlie Brown's. He was a Peanut.

Of course, as predicted, Schulz did face push back on account of Franklin. An editor complained that he shouldn’t be shown sharing a desk with Peppermint Patty, telling Schulz: “We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school.”

It wasn't until two decades after Franklin made his debut that Schulz revealed a very disheartening conversation he'd had with Larry Rutman, the president of United Feature. It turns out, Larry wasn't so keen on welcoming Franklin.

Larry told Schulz he needed to change it, which resulted in a rather long phone call. Finally, Schulz just let out a sigh and said, “well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?” So that’s the way that ended.


Harriet and Kelly have continued to be outspoken activists. The inclusion of Franklin was grand. And it did indeed accrue all the good Kelly foresaw. Black children, many for the first time, saw themselves portrayed in American culture.

 

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Esther Bubley documented Greyhound bus waiting rooms, terminals, and passengers coming and going in various U.S. cities during the 1940s. These are a few of those photographs held at the Library of Congress.

 

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“Watts Riots, Los
Angeles, California,” 1965 ...

 

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Muhammad Ali and his younger brother Rahman Ali, with their grandmother.

In 1964, a young boxer named Cassius Clay (“the Louisville Lip”) won an upset victory over Sonny Liston. Later that year, Clay changed his name from Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. to Cassius X, then to Muhammad Ali. Ali initially joined the nation of Islam (promoting “the Honorable” Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X) and refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam War. In interviews, Ali said that he changed his name because “Clay was a white name” and “a slave name,” while “Muhammad” and “Ali” weren’t.

 

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Love this threaad!!!

 

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Photographs taken at Hughes-Quinn Jr. High School in East St. Louis, Illinois by Alan Moss. These photographs were taken between 1969-1971 by Moss who was a young teacher at the time and documented his students and other faculty members.

They look mature for jr high school kids especially the couple at rhe top. Rhqts hiw it was from up until I the late 90s 2hen they stated making kids wear uniforms.

 

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Shoeshine Competition held in Wilson, North Carolina in 1952.

 

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Alice Walker: The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

 

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Greenville, South Carolina. Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White (1958)

 

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James “Bucky” Welch, who at 7-years-old had both his arms severed heroically saving his family’s beloved dog from an oncoming train. 1964.

 

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“Santa Claus Is A Black Man” by Akim and the Teddy Vann Production Company (1973).

 

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These pictures always make me ask...What are they putting in the food? Geez, everybody was slim back in the day. The future is bleak.

 

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Cartoon of a bouncing Malcolm X head published in an April 10, 1964 edition of Muhammed Speaks

 

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Bruce Davidson, usa, 1961. segregated waiting room at
greyhound bus station along freedom riders route.

 

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On June 15, 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell became the first African American woman awarded a PhD in economics, and from the University of Pennsylvania. She was the second African America woman to receive a PhD— the first was awarded to Georgianna Simpson in German from the University of Chicago just one day prior.

 

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In 1947, the National Urban League and Delta Sigma Theta started ‘Negro Heroes’ a children’s comic book highlighting the contributions of African Americans. In 1948, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was featured. She was pictured alongside National Urban League President Lester Granger and Mae Wright Downs Peck immediate past president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

 

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Maxwell Street in Chicago. Photographs by Mildred Mead in 1955.