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Harriet Tubman helped her brothers escape at Christmas. Their master intended to sell them after Christmas but was delayed by the holiday. The brothers were expected to spend the day with their elderly mother but met Tubman in secret. Enslaved americans experienced the Christmas

At just 7 years old, Ernest Frederick Morrison was the first black child movie star signed to a long-term contract in 1919 He was paid $10K a year, making him the highest paid black actor in Hollywood at the time. —Morrison was born on December 20, 1912 to Louise (Lewis) and

SISTER SOULJAH ON KU KLUX KLAN In this 1992 interview with Larry King, rapper and activist Sister Souljah responds to an incredible accusation. A caller claims her actions are on a par with white supremacist David Duke. Her answer is as powerful as it gets. To do it justice,

3rd Jan 1966: Sammy Younge, student & civil rights activist, was shot dead by a white station attendant for using a "Whites only" restroom. On Jan. 3, 1966, Samuel (Sammy) Younge Jr. was killed at a gas station in Macon County, Alabama for using the “whites-only” bathroom.

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On this day in 1929, Civil Rights Movement leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Gone, but not forgotten. Rest in Power.

2025 Miss Chicago and Miss Chicago’s Teen Scholarship Competition Returns to the American Heritage Center in January chicagosouthsider.com/2025-miss-chic… via @Chicago Southsider

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4 years before Rosa Parks ignited the Montgomery Bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat in Alabama, there was PFC Sarah Keys from the Keyesville neighborhood of Washington, NC, who when traveling from Fort Dix in NJ back home to Washington, NC on August 1, 1951, was told to

I went to two post offices to buy stamps. One didn't have any, and the other only had full books of stamps.i only needed 5 stamps. What's really going on at the #postoffices in black neighborhoods?

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