In 1661, a man who was known as “Francisco the Negro” helped to found what is now Bushwick, Brooklyn. He was one of the 23 founders of that area. In 1661, Bushwick was known as Boswijk. [Bibliography: Slavery In New York] Tweet
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When Washington Square Park Was Owned By African Americans
Recently, burial vaults were discovered underneath Washington Square Park. Archaeologists are reportedly still trying to determine the exact origins of the vaults; however, they claim that they believe the vaults date back to the 19th century. Way before the 19th century, African Americans who were brought to the United States as chattel, owned approximately 130 […]
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I have a question, Where did they get the pictures from if they can’t identify the photographers and photograph subjects? We need our own museums and archives so we can study ourselves, instead of having others always dissecting our culture. Tweet
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“For portions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, New York City housed the largest urban slave population in mainland North America, with more slaves than any other city on the continent. During those years, slaves composed more than one quarter of the labor force in the city and perhaps as much as one half of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Marcus Garvey On The Importance History
“Read history incessantly until you master it. This means your own national history, the history of the world, social history, industrial history, and the history of the different sciences; but primarily the history of man. If you do not know what went on before you came here and what is happening at the time you […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Oklahoma, Jim Crow & Segregated Phone Booths
Before the State of Oklahoma became part of the Union in 1907, the Western Negro Press Association requested of President Roosevelt that he not admit the state into the Union until Oklahoma agreed not to pass Jim Crow laws. President Roosevelt ignored this request. Oklahoma was the first state to segregate telephone booths. [Source: The […]
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“Between 1890 and 1910, 32 self-governing African American towns sprouted in Oaklahoma.” -From, “The Black West” By: William Katz Tweet
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Lucy Prince was the first African-American to have a poem published. The pioneering poem that she published was entitled, “The Bar’s Fight.” She was 16 years old when she wrote the poem describing a battle she had witnessed at a place called “The Bars.” Tweet
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