#segregated

[howifeltabouthim]

'I think it's spooky . . . all these white people in one place.'

Brandon Taylor, from The Late Americans

[blondebrainpowered]

Ronald McNair was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.

Prior to the Challenger disaster, McNair flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-B aboard Challenger from February 3 to 11, 1984, becoming the second black American in space.

In the summer of 1959, Ronald McNair refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library in South Carolina without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the building that housed the library at the time is now named after him. A children's book, Ron's Big Mission, offers a fictionalized account of this event.

[mimi-0007]

[yearningforunity]

Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph by Woodward Studio.

[brooklynmuseum]

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in September of 1934 to Jamaican immigrant parents, Lorraine O’Grady lived a full life before developing an artistic practice at the age of 43. O’Grady held the titles wife, mother, research economist, graduate student, translator, rock critic, and professor before adding “visual artist” to her repertoire. When she began to make artwork in the late 1970s, she encountered barriers similar to that of the workforce: racism, sexism, and a deeply segregated art world. O’Grady’s work combines historical, social, and political critique with a biographical narrative to create work that continues to address contemporary concerns.⁠ ⁠ Both/And marks the first retrospective of Lorraine O’Grady’s career. Learn more and plan your visit today!

Posted by Jenée-Daria Strand Lorraine O’Grady (left), in Art Is..., Afro-American Day Parade, Harlem, New York, September 11, 1983. Courtesy of the artist.

[theprophecysaid]

Update for Segregated:

I have ideas for the series and some loose plans but nothing set in stone. Once I have a bit more free time I will look at it and see if I can continue it since now with the show it, I’d think it’d be best to figure it out soon. Thank you to everyone who has read and followed the story so far, it means so much!

[nappynewz]

The Clinton 12: First Black Teens to Integrate a Public School in the South

The Clinton 12: First Black Teens to Integrate a Public School in the South

Twelve young African-American students walked into history in Clinton, Tennessee, in 1956. They were the first students to desegregate a state-supported high school in the south. Every school day morning, the “Clinton 12” met at Green McAdoo school and walked together down Broad Street from Foley Hill to Clinton High School.

(more…)

View On WordPress

[beautyintheblackness]

Y0UNG BLK INFLUENCER M!STR3ATED & SEGR3G@TED 0N BRAND TR!P!

My STORE: http://www.gordonecosmetics.com Subscribe Here: http://goo.gl/M9C4oL Business Inquires | [email protected] Follow me: Facebook | http://www.face...