Explore tweets tagged as #BlackHistoryMonth
African American mother and child holding an American flag. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistory #YemiAfrica
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In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state At 10 years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids #BlackHistoryMonth THREAD
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In 1969, when Black Americans were prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers decided to invite officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well known color barrier. #BlackHistoryMonth Breaking Color Barriers. A THREAD!
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19 year old Frank Embree was tortured, castrated, skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd, for a crime he didn’t commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants, no one was ever arrested. BlackHistorymonth A THREAD!
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In 1790, Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago. #BlackHistoryMonth A THREAD
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On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, WW2 veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury #BlackHistoryMonth THREAD!
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A picture of Trayvon Martin at space camp. He posthumously received an aviation honorary degree. Today would've been his 28th Birthday. #BlackHistoryMonth
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On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth
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On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth
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19 year old Frank Embree was tortured, castrated, skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd, for a crime he didn’t commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants, no one was ever arrested. BlackHistorymonth A THREAD!
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In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state At 10 years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids #BlackHistoryMonth THREAD
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On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth
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EVERY WHERE "THEY" GO/ARE/INVADE=Chaos ensues #Corrupt #American #JusticeSystem #LawEnforcement #FAILED #WeThePeople #DomesticTerrorism
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This is how we live. This is how all of us live. This isn't some random street in Peoria, Illinois.. This is the entire world. As you watch the video you'll feel the tumblers click into place, one by one, over and over, it will be reinforced. As you become angrier. Consider..
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Trump called Black history divisive, race centered, and corrosive. He’s threatening to strip funding from the Smithsonian African American Museum. Yet, some of y’all went to the White House to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with a white supremacist who is trying to erase Black
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