February 2012
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queenamongkings:
9 Little Known Facts About Notable Women in Black History
thechanelmuse:
From the article:
Nina Simone - Her involvement in civil rights was spurred by an incident at her first classical piano recital at age 12. During the recital, her parents sat in seats in the front of the building to see her play, but were told to move to the back to make way for white guests. She...
Do you know Yuri Kochiyama?
dreams-from-my-father:
ancestryinprogress:
I’m giving this woman flowers every single day that she is alive to let her know that cradling Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying is the most powerful thing she could have done for him in that moment, in that historical moment in our lives.
You see because she was still is an ardent social rights/social justice activist—on the behalf of Japanese...
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Recommendation: Black Women in History on Stuff...
coolchicksfromhistory:
Stuff You Missed in History Class
There’s Always a Seat for Queen Nzinga
The Freedom Rides: CORE’s First Wave & The Freedom Rides: Nashville Steps Up
Marian Anderson: The Lady from Philadelphia
Who was America’s First Black Millionairess?
The Craft’s Escape to Freedom
Nefertiti and the Heretic Pharaoh
Josephine Baker, the Toast of Paris
Mary Seacole and the...
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STFU RACISTS CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Black... →
stfuracists:
STFU RACISTS CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver
Something a little different for this edition…
A favorite canard of white supremacists is that whites are superior for having given us so much, for having invented so much, for having “civilized” the world. Of course, one should not mistake “colonization” for bringing...
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This Day in Women's History: Maud Slye, American...
fyeahwomenshistory:
Maud Slye was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye “‘invented’ genetically uniform mice as a research tool.” Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help...
January 2012
18 posts
500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to... →
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velocicrafter:
Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district...
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Today in "I didn't know they were Black!!": Ludwig...
theafrosistuh:
SOURCE
The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.
In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable...
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Fierce Historical Ladies post: Zenobia
historicity-was-already-taken:
In the third century CE, between the years 235 and 283 CE, the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined weight of invasions, civil war, plague, and economic depression. By the year 258, the empire had split into three states: the Gallic Empire, the Palmyrene Empire, and the Roman Empire between them. The three were not reunited until the rule of the Emperor...
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Autostraddle - 10 Great Places To Meet Lesbians... →
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The First Woman To Go 'Round The World Did It As A... →
{Trigger warning for mentions of rape}
discoverynews:
She was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but she did it dressed as a man. For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around her upper body to flatten her chest. It was a small ship with 300 men who knew her as “Jean.” But she wasn’t Jean. She was Jeanne. Then one day,...
Watchadailyriot:
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee
Lost Bird Story Summary
In the spring or summer of 1890, Lost Bird was born somewhere on the prairies of South Dakota. Fate took her to Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.
On that tragic day, hundreds of Lakota men, women and children died in a confrontation with U.S. troops and the woman who...
“In order to understand why transphobia and cissexism persist and are continually...”
– Ida Hammer, in an interview with Bitch Magazine (via mikroblogolas)
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Nancy Wake: Badass spy, important woman in...
beardsbeerandliterarybadassery:
In the mid-1930s, an Australian journalist visited Germany to report on the rise of fascism and interview Adolf Hitler. The atrocities she saw there, which included the public beating of Jews, forever changed the course of her young life. Nancy Wake would spend World War II fighting Nazism tooth and nail, saving thousands of Allied lives and winding up at the...
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LGBTQ Practices in Pre-Colonial Africa →
fyeahafrica:
The myth of exclusive heterosexuality in indigenous black/sub-Saharan Africa was widely diffused by the 94th chapter of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1781). Referring to homosexual behavior, Gibbon wrote, “I believe and hope that the negroes in their own country were exempt from this moral pestilence.” Gibbon’s fond hope was based on neither travel to Africa...
December 2011
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November 2011
11 posts
Native American Encyclopedia →
Welcome to the Native American Encyclopedia, where our objective is to: honor our elders, inspire our youth, document our history and share our culture. And whether you are a student, researcher, or just curious about Native American history and facts, we have accumulated an abundance of articles to meet your needs. We are successfully accumulating and continue to construct the most...
If you have a kindle of any sort
onceuponanotsolongago:
femmenoire:
Go download all of the free books by W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells plus slave narratives and such.
Sharing links to ebooks (they are all free and offered in a bunch of different formats!):
Fredrick Douglass:
Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
Collected Articles...
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October 2011
19 posts
The Truth about Scalping
sovereigntyordeath:
More Propaganda against the Native Americans.
Here is the truth..
In 1641, the Dutch governor of Manhattan offered the first scalp bounty; a common practice in many European countries. This was broadened by the Puritans to include a bounty for Natives fit to be sold for slavery. The Dutch and Puritans joined forces to exterminate all Natives from New England, and village...
What you don't see in the U.S. history books: POC... →
angrybrownbaby:
I ran across this and found it interesting (though I knew a good portion of the history since I remember learning about this as a kid in Mexico). I think the title should say Mexican and Black American Solidarity, though. As per usual, I will mention that Black people and Mexicans are not mutually exclusive.
History of Mexican-Black solidarity
Published Apr 29, 2007 6:35...
