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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

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How did T. Thomas Fortune become the most influential black journalist during the Progressive Era? How did Fortune help Booker T. Washington?

What events had to occur U.S. History for the Civil Rights Movement to develop? What organizations played a role in the development of the Civil Rights Movement?

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was instrumental in helping African-Americans leave the South and settle in the West. He coined the term, "exodusters."

Key events and issues occurring between 1910 and 1919.

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Three documentary sets providing vivid footage and historical reenactments to inform viewers of the African-American experience in the United States.

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Daily and monthly publications were important to promoting the work of Harlem Renaissance artists.

Writers of the Harlem Renaissance published their short stories, essays, and poems in weekly newspapers such as “The Chicago Defender” and monthly publications such as “The Crisis.”

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What historically black colleges and universities were established between 1900 and 1975? What organizations helped African-Americans attend college?

Serena and Venus Williams, Zina Garrison, Althea Gibson, and Ora Mae Washington have all mastered the game of tennis.

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The American Tennis Association (ATA) was established to provide a space for African-American tennis players to compete against each other.

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Julian Bond’s career as an activist, politician, professor of history made him an elder statesmen in the Civil Rights Movement.

Confession: I did not know very much about Julian Bond. Yes, I’d seen photographs of him and known that he was one of the last standing symbols of the Civil Rights Movement.

But I did not know anything about his work as a social activist- he co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with Ella Baker or that he established the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I also did not know that he’d been able to marry his social activism with being an elected official and served for 20 years in office.

Phenomenal man.

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This is another MUST SEE doc…

Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers And The Emergence Of A People…

“A film that explores how African American communities have used the camera as a tool for social change from the invention of photography to the present. This epic tale poetically moves between the present and the past, through contemporary photographers and artists whose images and stories seek to reconcile legacies of pride and shame while giving voice to images long suppressed, forgotten, and hidden from sight…”

Inspired by Deborah Willis’s book, Reflections in Black, filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris casts a broad net with Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People and begins with his family album. The film is a cornucopia of Americana that reveals deeply disturbing truths about the history of race relations while expressing joyous, life-affirming sentiments about the ability of artists and amateurs alike to assert their identity through the photographic lens…

…Through a Lens Darkly" demonstrates, it’s only through the eyes of black photographers that we see differently. With the thousand words vividly painted through each picture, we connect, identify and find solidarity… Some of the black photographers’ works here are breathtaking — and may prompt you to hunt down Willis’ book for the coffee table. But there’s so much more to take away from Harris’ documentary. It unequivocally confirms the necessity of diversity in media, the business of image making. With some of the most successful television shows this fall boasting people of color in front of and behind the camera, a centuries-old paradigm has only just begun to shift..

See also:

– See 6min. YouTube trailer of the doc HERE

– 1world1family.me – Digital Diaspora Family Reunion and 1World1Family social media campaign, the companion transmedia project to Through A Lens Darkly, engages audiences to discover connections between their own family archives and the film’s historical narrative, thus creating new communal linkages that underlie our common humanity.

– NPR

– Democracy NOW

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“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing,” - Malcolm X

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Sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was the first African-American woman to be commissioned by the U.S. government to create visual art.

Jacob Lawrence depict African-American historical figures and events in visual narrative series.

DJ Kool Herc is credited with throwing the first hip hop party in 1973 in the Bronx.

On August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc threw a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue and hip hop culture was born.

#hiphopculture #hiphophistory #blackhistory #ushistory #djkoolherc #rap #theartofdj #americanhistory

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HipHop is 42 Years Old Today!

Too old to call it a fad, but too young to call it played out.

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