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Black Mariners in Whaling Industry

Black Mariners in Whaling Industry

  Did you know that blacks served among crews on whaling ships before the American Revolution? Did you know that Crispus Attucks spent 20 years as a whaler before he was the...

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Jim Crow in the Saddle

Jim Crow in the Saddle

In the early 19th Century, Southern Thoroughbred breeders relied on slaves to care for, ride and train horses. After Emancipation slaves remained on the farms and it was...

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First Black Auto Manufacturer

First Black Auto Manufacturer

Frederick Postell Patterson was the first manufacturer, owner, and operator of Greenfield-Patterson Automobile Company.  His first car debuted in 1915, built-in Ohio,the car...

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Black Wall Street Destroyed

Black Wall Street Destroyed

When white supremacists were not successful in eliminating the individual progress of “uppity blacks,” they resorted to destroying whole communities to return “white...

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176 Year History of Party Platforms

176 Year History of Party Platforms

A party platform is a document that contains principal goals of the two major parties that comes out every four years before the presidential election and contains the...

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Robert S. Abbott: The Chicago Defender

Robert S. Abbott: The Chicago Defender

Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 – 1940) was born of freeman parents and was given his middle name by his stepfather at the age of one. Abbott studied at Claflin University,...

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