Voter suppression started way before Jim Crow. It’s a longstanding American tradition. For two and a half centuries, people have justified Black disenfranchisement in the name of ‘unity’ washingtonpost.com/politi…
It’s the second half of the 19th century in the American “Wild West” and two local minority boys got in a fight, ones dead. Does the local sheriff care? Do they investigate? If a black man killed a native man that would be “more acceptable” than vice versa?
A conceptual artist, explorer, historian, naturalist, and collector of curiosities, Mark Dion spent two years retracing the footsteps of 19th century explorers in Texas for his new exhibit, an exclusive at The Amon Carter Museum of American Art. star-telegram.com/enterta…
We Can Do to the Senate What Brits Did to the House of Lords - The Senate has been impeding American democracy for two centuries, but this does not mean it has to go on forever. thedailybeast.com/we-can-…
If the black Americans are called African Americans then why the white Americans aren't called as Europian Americans ? They only arrived there a couple of centuries earlier
Reparations??? But slavery was soooooo long ago. It’s not like there are centuries of post-slavery oppression that disparately impacted Black Americans reddit.com/gallery/nvyqoj
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman. As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hea…
US postage stamp. Scott #3236 (1998) "Four Centuries of American Art"
How Native Americans were vaccinated against smallpox, then pushed off their land: Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus washingtonpost.com/histor…
TIL that nineteenth century New Orleans socialite Delphine LaLaurie was discovered to have been torturing several slaves in her home for months on end. In public life, she put on a facade of politeness toward black Americans and bragged about taking good care of her slaves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del…
'WandaVision magnificently terminates and fulfils the line of Dalí, Picasso, Magritte, and Lynch. It is probably the greatest cinematic work of American twenty-first century art–where greatest means most abundant, various, precise, rich, lyrical.' -Luis Buñuel
[TOMT][20th century] A movie where two black kids are sitting on a becnh and then one of them has a gun and accidentally get shot
A movie where two black kids are sitting on a bench and then one of them has a gun and accidentally get shot by it.
I think it is the intro of the movie. I don't recall what the rest of the movie is about but i think it could be about growing up in the hood.
Now I'm aware of how racist Woodrow Wilson was but how racially tolerant or open minded were American Presidents/politicians around the turn of the century (late 19th/early 20th century)? Did any seek African-American voters? Were any quite simply, "a friend of the Black community"?
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Trial of the Century Exposed Injustice in 1920s America. The pair’s path to becoming media sensations began 100 years ago. To this day the two remain emblems of prejudice in the American justice system smithsonianmag.com/histor…
"Russia Has Older Democracy Than U.S. and First Black General Proves It": The head of Russia's Central Elections Commission has claimed that Russia has an older democracy than the U.S. because Russia appointed its first black general two centuries before the first African-American made that rank. themoscowtimes.com/news/a…
What did Africans or the African diaspora in the early 20th century think of the plight of Black Americans of the same period? Was their focus on their treatment or did they talk pride in the achievements that some were still able to produce despite hostility and oppression?
There are still no national monuments to the thousands of black Americans killed during a century of lynchings. But for 12 years, activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives. theguardian.com/world/201…
Two black Americans are having coffee together in a cafe in Harlem during the early 20th century. They discover that they share the same last name but are positive they aren't related. What is the likelihood that their parents or grandparents were from the same plantation?
After the Civil War, did freed slaves often adopt the name of the plantation owner?
American iron! Unbelievable pieces of art! Many of them a century old. I can only imagine what could be made today . v.redd.it/4bsmmla0um261
We Can Do to the Senate What Brits Did to the House of Lords - The Senate has been impeding American democracy for two centuries, but this does not mean it has to go on forever. thedailybeast.com/we-can-…
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow and the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North. youtube.com/watch?v=72b3-…
TIL: Dozens of studies over half a century found that the average American lies at least two times a day. However, this is due to a small minority (5%) contributing to more than half of the lies. The most prolific liar demographic is male who is known as honest. msu.edu/~levinet/Serota_e…
Virtual Lectures to Explore African-American Art of the 20th Century golocalprov.com/lifestyle…
Now I'm aware of how racist Woodrow Wilson was but how racially tolerant or open minded were American Presidents/politicians around the turn of the century (late 19th/early 20th century)? Did any seek African-American voters? Were any quite simply, "a friend of the Black community"? reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
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In the American Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) there is a wonderfully preserved Roman bust of a man from the mid-1st century CE. It is either a copy of previous work or an original made in a realistic style. [900x1200]
African American musicians in the mid-twentieth century all seemed to straighten/relax and slick back their hair. At the time, what influenced Black musicians' decision to shy away from sporting their natural hair?
TIL African-American men once dominated horse racing, among the USA's most popular 19th Century sports. Most of the Kentucky Derby champions then were Black men who established huge names, winnings and followings for themselves. Eventually they were shut out of participating in the sport. youtu.be/pJxuUSZ4Z70
“Rare photographs of black families taken in Lincoln during the early 1900s by John Johnson may make him one of the great African American photographers of the 20th Century” video.netnebraska.org/vid…
A deeply carved Neo-Assyrian Ivory Plaque, depicting two Egyptian-like figures in high relief flanking a volute tree. Origin: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), ca. 9th–8th century B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art (1065x1500)
TIL:In January 1960, white jazz pianist Dave Brubeck canceled a twenty-five-date tour of colleges and universities across the American South after twenty-two schools had refused to allow his black bassist, Eugene Wright, to perform. He also canceled a tv show where they didn't want to show him. amacad.org/publication/da…
TIL many African-Americans have Irish surnames (e.g. Shaquille O'Neal) because Irish and Blacks lived side by side in the ghettos of 19th century America. nytimes.com/2003/03/17/ny…
