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Harlem Renaissance #1177

The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City, after World War I.

Harriet Tubman #1035

Harriet Tubman (c. 1820–March 10, 1913), also known as “Moses of Her People,” was an African-American abolitionist. An escaped slave, she made approximately 13 voyages into Maryland to rescue about 70 enslaved friends and family to freedom in Canada. During her lifetime she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook. As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, and fundraiser.

Harriet Tubman #1097

Harriet Tubman (c. 1820–March 10, 1913), also known as “Moses of Her People,” was an African-American abolitionist. An escaped slave, she made approximately 13 voyages into Maryland to rescue about 70 enslaved friends and family to freedom in Canada. During her lifetime she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook. As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, and fundraiser.

Horrible Lynching #1050

Lynching in the United States, has influenced and been influenced by the major social conflicts in the country, revolving around the American frontier, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement. Originally, lynching meant any   extra-judicial punishment, including tarring and feathering and running out of town, but during the 19th century in the United States, it began to be used to refer specifically to murder, usually by hanging.

John Brown #1244

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and to practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. He has been called “the most controversial of all nineteenth-century Americans.”[1] His attempt to start a liberation movement among enslaved blacks in Virginia in 1859 electrified the nation, even though not a single slave answered his call. He was tried for treason (against the state of Virginia) and hanged, but his behavior at the trial seemed heroic to millions of Americans.

Joseph Cinque #1101

Sengbe Pieh (1815 – ca. 1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende tribe who was the most prominent defendant in the Amistad case, in which it was proved that he and 52 others had been victims of the illegal Atlantic slave trade.

Katrina #1246

1937 Flood victims in louisville, KY, wait in line for food at a relief center. Same old Sh#%t.

Emancipation Proclamation #1059

Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, which declared the freedom of all slaves in those areas of the rebellious Confederate States of America that had not already returned to Union control.

Kwanzaa #1192

Kwanzaa (or Kwaanza) is a week-long Pan-African festival primarily honoring African-American heritage. [1] It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year, almost exclusively in the United States of America.