🖤❤️💛💚Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚
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Happy Black History Month!
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✊🏾On March 2, 1955 Claudette Covin was actually the first African American who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested at 15 years old for not complying.
✊🏾Im grateful to Rosa Parks- but let's not forget Claudette Covin was part of this movement as well and let's give her - her roses 🌹🌹 too! 🖤❤️💛💚
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✊🏾On March 2, 1955 Claudette Covin was actually the first African American who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested at 15 years old for not complying.
✊🏾Im grateful to Rosa Parks- but let's not forget Claudette Covin was part of this movement as well and let's give her - her roses 🌹🌹 too! 🖤❤️💛💚
🖤❤️💛💚✊🏾Happy Black History Month ✊🏾🖤❤️💛💚
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President Lincoln signed the Amendment abolishing slavery on February 1, 1865, although it was not ratified by the states until later. Later, this date was celebrated as Black History Day.✊🏾
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President Lincoln signed the Amendment abolishing slavery on February 1, 1865, although it was not ratified by the states until later. Later, this date was celebrated as Black History Day.✊🏾
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛
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On April 6, 1909 Matthew Henson was THE first person & African American to set foot on the North Pole. His travel Partner Richard Perry took the credit.
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On April 6, 1909 Matthew Henson was THE first person & African American to set foot on the North Pole. His travel Partner Richard Perry took the credit.
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚
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✊🏾Lewis Latimer was actually the first inventor of Electricity! Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb but it could not light if it wasn't for the carbon filaments used inside of the lightbulb to actually light in September of 1881. Plus he was a Patent expert- in which he patented all his inventions.
✊🏾He is also responsible for the evaporative air conditioner (which gives cooler air than an air conditioner- and is energy efficient)He also improved toilet systems for the railroad cars.
🎤↓- who was really the GENIUS! Im Just Sayin!
Lewis Latamier🌹🌹
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✊🏾Lewis Latimer was actually the first inventor of Electricity! Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb but it could not light if it wasn't for the carbon filaments used inside of the lightbulb to actually light in September of 1881. Plus he was a Patent expert- in which he patented all his inventions.
✊🏾He is also responsible for the evaporative air conditioner (which gives cooler air than an air conditioner- and is energy efficient)He also improved toilet systems for the railroad cars.
🎤↓- who was really the GENIUS! Im Just Sayin!
Lewis Latamier🌹🌹
🖤❤️💚💛Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💚💛
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Jane Bolin became the nation's first Black woman judge in 1939. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, and would serve on New York's Family Court for four decades. Besides dealing with domestic cases, she worked to stop probation officers from getting assignments based on the color of their skin. During her career, she also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to create a program that would intervene to stop young boys from committing crimes.
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Jane Bolin became the nation's first Black woman judge in 1939. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, and would serve on New York's Family Court for four decades. Besides dealing with domestic cases, she worked to stop probation officers from getting assignments based on the color of their skin. During her career, she also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to create a program that would intervene to stop young boys from committing crimes.
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚
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Mary McLeod Bethune was a trailblazer for African-American people in education by opening her own schoolIn a time when educational options for African-American people were limited, Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, a school for black girls.
In 1923, the school merged into a college, and then with the all-male Cookman Institute. The new, merged school had now doubled its enrollment to 600 and was renamed the Bethune-Cookman College and today is known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
In addition to her work in education, Bethune also organized voter registration campaigns, as women gained the right to vote. In 1936, Bethune was the highest-ranking African-American woman in government as the director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.
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Mary McLeod Bethune was a trailblazer for African-American people in education by opening her own schoolIn a time when educational options for African-American people were limited, Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904, a school for black girls.
In 1923, the school merged into a college, and then with the all-male Cookman Institute. The new, merged school had now doubled its enrollment to 600 and was renamed the Bethune-Cookman College and today is known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
In addition to her work in education, Bethune also organized voter registration campaigns, as women gained the right to vote. In 1936, Bethune was the highest-ranking African-American woman in government as the director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.
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✊🏾Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American author to publish a book of poetryWheatley was born around 1753 in West Africa and brought to Boston in 1761. She was educated by the Boston family, the Wheatleys, who enslaved her. She studied literature, including John Milton and Homer, and eventually began to write her own poetry.
Her first poem was likely published in December 1767. She gained national acclaim in 1770 for "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield" which was published in the US and also later published in London.
In 1773, Wheatley was the first African-American poet to publish a book of her work. It was called "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." She went on to publish poems such as "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "On Virtue."
✊🏾Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American author to publish a book of poetryWheatley was born around 1753 in West Africa and brought to Boston in 1761. She was educated by the Boston family, the Wheatleys, who enslaved her. She studied literature, including John Milton and Homer, and eventually began to write her own poetry.
Her first poem was likely published in December 1767. She gained national acclaim in 1770 for "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield" which was published in the US and also later published in London.
In 1773, Wheatley was the first African-American poet to publish a book of her work. It was called "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." She went on to publish poems such as "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "On Virtue."
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚 Droppin Knowledge:
✊🏾Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, during the Civil War. After three friends were lynched, Wells, who was a journalist and former schoolteacher, worked to bring increased awareness to these brutal, racially-motivated crimes against black Americans.
Wells became part-owner of The Memphis Free Speech and published her writings on her investigation in various pamphlets and newspaper columns, exploring lynchings and racism in America, as well as encouraging boycotts to protest racism and racially motivated violence. Her writings caused so much outrage that she was driven out of Memphis and moved to Chicago.
Wells was also an outspoken advocate for women's rights issues, including suffrage. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Club and she and Belle Squire, a white colleague of hers, co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club.
✊🏾Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, during the Civil War. After three friends were lynched, Wells, who was a journalist and former schoolteacher, worked to bring increased awareness to these brutal, racially-motivated crimes against black Americans.
Wells became part-owner of The Memphis Free Speech and published her writings on her investigation in various pamphlets and newspaper columns, exploring lynchings and racism in America, as well as encouraging boycotts to protest racism and racially motivated violence. Her writings caused so much outrage that she was driven out of Memphis and moved to Chicago.
Wells was also an outspoken advocate for women's rights issues, including suffrage. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Club and she and Belle Squire, a white colleague of hers, co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club.
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚 Droppin Knowledge:
✊🏾Rebecca Lee Crumpler was instrumental in issuing medical treatment to those who couldn't afford itAt a time when very few women worked outside of the home, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was saving lives. Crumpler earned her M.D. degree from New England Female Medical College in 1864 and was the first African-American person to earn a degree from the institution. Crumpler became the first African-American female physician in the United States.
Her practice was primarily focused on serving low-income women and children in Boston and Richmond, Virginia.
In 1883, Crumpler became the first black physician to publish a medical textbook, "A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts."
✊🏾Rebecca Lee Crumpler was instrumental in issuing medical treatment to those who couldn't afford itAt a time when very few women worked outside of the home, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was saving lives. Crumpler earned her M.D. degree from New England Female Medical College in 1864 and was the first African-American person to earn a degree from the institution. Crumpler became the first African-American female physician in the United States.
Her practice was primarily focused on serving low-income women and children in Boston and Richmond, Virginia.
In 1883, Crumpler became the first black physician to publish a medical textbook, "A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts."
🖤❤️💛💚Happy Black History Month🖤❤️💛💚 Droppin Knowledge:
✊🏾Constance Baker Motley, a run-in with discrimination inspired her legal careerConstance Baker Motley first took an interest in the law when she was turned away from a public beach as a teenager because she was black.
Motley earned her law degree, from the Columbia University School of Law and in 1946, worked at the NAACP legal defense fund.
She worked as a legal strategist, representing Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other freedom riders and working on civil rights cases including the Montgomery bus boycott.
Motley made history in 1964 as the first black woman ever elected to the New York State Senate and as the first African-American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in 1966.
✊🏾Constance Baker Motley, a run-in with discrimination inspired her legal careerConstance Baker Motley first took an interest in the law when she was turned away from a public beach as a teenager because she was black.
Motley earned her law degree, from the Columbia University School of Law and in 1946, worked at the NAACP legal defense fund.
She worked as a legal strategist, representing Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other freedom riders and working on civil rights cases including the Montgomery bus boycott.
Motley made history in 1964 as the first black woman ever elected to the New York State Senate and as the first African-American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in 1966.
