Hidden African And African-American History You Must Know

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  How Tuskegee Navy Veteran Was Shot To Death By A White Gas Station Attendant For Using A “Whites Only” Restroom In 1966 – Sammy Younge
  Samuel (“Sammy”) Leamon Younge Jr. was 21 years old when he was fatally shot on January 3, 1966, at a gas station in Macon County, Alabama, while attempting to use […]
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  When 33 Black Girls Were Locked Up For 45 Days For Trying To Buy Movie Tickets At Segregated Theater – Stolen Girls
  Around 200 African American youths gathered in downtown Americus, Georgia, in July 1963 to peacefully oppose local segregation. Police rushed in to arrest the teenage protestors after sanctioning violent attacks […]
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  The Unpopular Lynching Of Louis Till, Emmett Till’s Father In 1945
  Emmett Till’s grisly lynching by two white men on the pretext that he flirted with one of their wives while the 14-year-old African American was just going to her shop […]
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  Eliza Ann Grier: Formerly Enslaved Woman Who Got Her M.D. And Became The First Black Woman To Practice Medicine In Georgia In 1898
  Eliza Ann Grier, born enslaved in North Carolina, got her M.D. and became Georgia’s first Black woman physician in 1898. Her bachelor’s degree in education from Fisk University took her […]
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  Kenyan Running Star Who Conquered The World Barefoot With Her Memorable Petticoat In The 1970s – Sabina Chebichi
  Sabina Chebichi was a member of the Elgeyo ethnic group from Kenya’s western highlands. She was born in Trans Nzoia, the second oldest of nine children, and grew up in […]
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  How Rosa Ingram And Teen Sons Were Sentenced To Death For Killing White Neighbor Who Tried To Rape Her In 1948
  Rosa Lee Ingram and her two boys were sentenced to death for the murder of a white landowner, and sexual offender in rural Georgia in 1948. The case was a superb […]
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  The Brave Story Of Formerly Enslaved Grandmother Who Gave Up Freedom To Rescue Her Children From Slavery – Juliet Miles
  Juliet Miles was enslaved in Kentucky in the 1800s and was eventually released, but she died in prison after being recaptured while attempting to rescue her children from slavery. This […]
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  Remembering The 21 Black Teens Who Died In Mysterious Fire Set To Their Dorm In 1959 In Arkansas
  Was it a case of extreme negligence that resulted in the boys’ deaths, or were they deliberately burned alive? Considering circumstances before, during, and after the 1959 fatal episode at […]
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  A Look At How Enslaved Africans Spent Christmas Under Harsh Enslavers In The U.S
  After the Civil War, White Southerners wrote short stories, memoirs, and novels that seek to justify slavery. Slave Christmases have been made to sound beautiful in some of these novels, […]
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  The Unsolved Murder Of Isadore Banks, One Of The Wealthiest Land Owners In Arkansas, In 1954
  15th of July, 1895 Isadore Banks enlisted in the Army at the age of 22 in the latter months of World War I, but it is unclear whether he was […]
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  How Bill Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill Destroyed Black Communities; Opening An Era Of Mass Incarceration For Black & Women
  Former President Bill Clinton was formerly regarded as the first Black president by the African-American community when the thought of electing a black president was still a pipe dream. During […]
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  Remembering When Diddy Bought Kerry James Marshall Painting For $21.1m – Making It The Highest Ever Paid For A Black’s Painting
  Sean “Diddy” Combs, popularly known as Puff Daddy and P Diddy, was the buyer of a Kerry James Marshall artwork that sold for $21.1 million (£15.6 million) at auction in […]
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  For Participating In Civil Rights Demonstrations Miss Albany Was Stripped Of Her Crown And Expelled From School In 1961 – Annette Jones
  During the Civil Rights Movement in 1961, police detained approximately 40 Albany State College students for taking part in protests. One of them was Annette Jones. She had been crowned […]
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  6 Disturbing Facts About Sex Farms and Exploitation Of The Body Of Africans During Slavery In The United States
  White enslavers tested the fertility of enslaved women to ensure that they could have as many children as possible. White enslavers would secretly impregnate enslaved women, and once the child was […]
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  Annie Lee Cooper, The Civil Rights Hero Who Punched A Racist Sheriff In The Face
  Annie Lee Cooper was an activist for racial equality who was instrumental in the Selma Voting Rights Movement in 1965. Many people weren’t aware of her efforts until Oprah Winfrey […]
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  Meet America’s Cruelest, Richest Slave Traders, Notorious For Raping Enslaved African Women – Isaac Franklin And John Armfield
  The two most brutal domestic slave dealers in America used a code to communicate. Slave trading was considered a “sport.” They were courageous “pirates” or “one-eyed men,” a metaphor for […]
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  Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes: First Black Designer To Open Black-Owned Business On Broadway In New York City
  Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 1905. Valdes worked in her uncle’s tailoring shop as a child, studying her grandmother’s job as a seamstress. […]
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  How 15-Year-Old Latasha Harlins Was Murdered Over A Bottle Of Orange Juice In 1991
  On March 16, 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was fatally shot by Soon Ja Du, the 51-year-old Korean wife of the Empire Liquor Market owner. Du noticed Harlins stuffing a bottle […]
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  From Slave To Bank Owner: How William Washington Browne Founded The 1st Black-Owned Bank In The U.S. In 1888
  The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first Black-owned bank in the United States. Reverend William Washington Browne created the […]
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  How Six White Men Killed Black Reverend And Stole Over 270 Acres Of His Land in Mississippi In the 1940s – Reverend Isaac Simmons
  It was uncommon for a Black individual to hold a substantial piece of land in the early to mid-1900s. Regardless, in Amite County, Mississippi, Reverend Isaac Simmons held more than […]
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  Soul Singer Gladys Knight Actually Discovered Michael Jackson, Not Diana Ross
  The famous King of Pop is still revered today for his innovative inventiveness and music, which revolutionized the music industry. Michael Jackson was a rookie music artist seeking to get […]
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  How George Washington Used Dentures Made From Teeth Taking From Slaves
  George Washington, America’s founding father, and first president governed from 1789 to 1797 and won many battles as a military general as well as in the political arena as a […]
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  When White Cops Arrested The Black Panthers For Reading Poetry In 1966
  In Bobby Seale’s 1968 book Seize The Time he recounts how he and fellow Black Panther Huey P Newton were detained in 1966 while attending Merritt College because Bobby Seale had recited […]
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  Two Men Convicted Of Killing Malcolm X To Be Exonerated; The FBI Knew They Were Innocent All Along
  According to an inquiry, the FBI and NYPD concealed information that could have led to the acquittal of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam. According to The New York Times, two […]
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  Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Becomes First Black Historical Figure At The U.S. Capitol
  Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, an education pioneer, will make history next year when a statue of her is unveiled in the United States Capitol in 2022. It will be the […]
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  Joshua Halsey Gets Funeral 123 Years After He Was Murdered In 1898 Massacre Of Black People In Wilmington
  After being killed by a violent group of white supremacists during the city’s massacre in November 1898, Joshua Halsey was buried in an unmarked grave at Pine Forest Cemetery in […]
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  At 16 Maya Angelou Became The 1st Black Female Streetcar Driver In San Francisco
  Maya Angelou shattered barriers as San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor in the 1940s before becoming a famous orator, poet, author, and civil rights activist. She started the work […]
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  Remembering When This 11-Year Old Girl Was Knocked Out By White Bully For Saying ‘My Black Is Beautiful’
  It is very disheartening to confirm that vile racism has been passed down to the younger generation of Caucasians in America. As we lament the heinous acts of racism that […]
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  How Whites Kidnapped, Tied And Drowned 15-Year Old Willie Howard For Sending A Christmas Card To A White Girl
  Individuals will send unique notes to loved ones, family, and coworkers as the year draw to a close and Christmas approaches. Willie James Howard, a 15-year-old who was kidnapped by […]
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  102 Years Ago, John Hartfield Was Shot, Hanged & Roasted For Dating A White Lady And His Body Parts Shared To Spectators
  When confronted with complaints from Blacks about the violence directed at them, the ordinary white person is quick to point out that the black victim may have done something to […]