R•E•A•L history talk

What kids don't get taught in school.

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Gordon Parks 📷🎬✒

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Bessie Coleman 🛩💨

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Gwendolyn E. Brooks

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Afeni Shakur ✴

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Margaret & Matilda Peters 🎾✴

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Stagecoach Mary 🐎

Birth name: Mary Fields

“Stagecoach Mary” or “Black Mary,” as she was nicknamed, carried a rifle and a revolver. She met trains with mail, then drove her stagecoach over rocky, rough roads and through snow and inclement weather. And though she intimidated would-be thieves with her height and her tough demeanor, she became beloved by locals, who praised her generosity and her kindness to children.

In 1895, she got a contract from the postal service to become a star route carrier—an independent contractor who carried mail using a stagecoach. As a star carrier, her job was to protect the mail on her route from thieves and bandits and to deliver mail. She was only the second woman in the United States and the first African American woman to serve in that role.

She drove the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname "Stagecoach". If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.

She was a respected public figure in Cascade, and the town closed its schools to celebrate her birthday each year. When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption. In 1903, at age 71, Fields retired from star route mail carrier service. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home.

When she died on December 5, 1914, her funeral was one of the largest the town had ever seen.

Meet Stagecoach Mary, the Daring Black Pioneer Who Protected Wild West Stagecoaches

Would-be mail thieves didn’t stand a chance against Stagecoach Mary. The hard-drinking, quick-shooting mail carrier sported two guns and men

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Jennie Serepta Dean 📚

Jennie S. Dean established the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth to teach skilled trades to African Americans.

Frederick Douglass spoke at the dedication, and the first students arrived in 1894.

Learn about Jennie S. Dean and more at BlackThen.com

Jennie S. Dean: Opened Institution to Teach Skilled Trades to African Americans

Jennie Serepta Dean was a pioneer educator in Virginia who opened an institution to teach skilled trades to African Americans. Dean was b

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The Evolution of Music 🎶

How Cab Calloway paved the way for modern hip hop.

"I'm going to sing about the ghetto and show the power of the black mind."

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Cab Calloway 🎶🎙

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III...

A true star, leader, and innovator.

Cab Calloway

Singer Cab Calloway became a star with his performances at the Cotton Club and his song "Minnie the Moocher" (1931). He also appeared on sta

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Hazel Scott 🎹❤

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The truth about

Lebron James 🏀

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Polly Jackson 💥🤘

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Katherine Johnson 🌘

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Alice Marie Coachman 🌟

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Thurgood Marshall ⚖

Thurgood Marshall — perhaps best known as the first African-American Supreme Court justice — played an instrumental role in promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement. As a practicing attorney, Marshall argued a record-breaking 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 29 of them. In fact, Marshall represented and won more cases before the high court than any other person.

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall — perhaps best known as the first African-American Supreme Court justice — played an instrumental role in promoting racial

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Eartha Kitt 🎙🎶

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The REAL Lone Ranger...

Bass Reeves 💫