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in baltimore's historic fells point, history & coffee combines a history focused bookstore, coffee shop, and interactive exhibit experience while building an online history community across the united states

04/27/2024

☕️ h&c book boost (4/27/24) 🔄
📚 in Harambee City (2017), Nishani Frazier animates CORE around 1960s cleveland through oral & digital histories 🖇
(https://harambeecity.rrchnm.org)
🌱 making the past grassroots ➕ collective 💞
💡 asking how do people adapt organizing structures to forge change ❓
⚒️ harambee 🟰 pulling together & self-help 💗
🧱 w/ housing, education, labor, equality, power 🔥
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/harambee-city

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04/23/2024

Happy Birthday to African American mechanical engineer and inventor Granville Woods (b. April 23, 1856, in Columbus, OH), who among other things invented a special telegraph for fast-moving railroad communication. It saved lives and minimized property damage by preventing collisions.

Happy Birthday to African American mechanical engineer and inventor Granville Woods (b. April 23, 1856, in Columbus, OH), who among other things invented a s...

04/21/2024

April 21, 1789: John Adams officially became the first vice president of the United States, nine days before George Washington became the first president. Adams was made vice president because he received the second-most votes for president.

April 21, 1789: John Adams officially became the first vice president of the United States, nine days before George Washington became the first president. Ad...

04/19/2024

April 19, 1982: Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride learned and confirmed that she would be the first American woman to enter outer space. Two months later, she broke the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gender barrier as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger.

Citations: U.S. Congress, House, *Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on the Selection of Astronauts,* 87th Cong., 2nd sess., July 17-18, 1962, Statement of Colonel John Glenn, (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1962), 74, https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CHRG-87hhrg88295/CHRG-87hhrg88295; Marie Lathers, “‘No Official Requirement’: Women, History, Time, and the U.S. Space Program,” *Feminist Studies* 35, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 16-17, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40607922; “About Dr. Sally Ride,” Sally Ride Science @ UC San Diego, accessed March 27, 2024, https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/sallyride/about-sallyride/; NASA, “MISSION SPECIALIST - SALLY RIDE,” photograph (location unknown, August 30, 1983),
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/354373594.

April 19, 1982: Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride learned and confirmed that she would be the first American woman to enter outer space. Two months later, she broke t...

04/16/2024

Happy Birthday to basketball legend, historian, and thought leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b. April 16, 1947, in Harlem, NY), who has proudly asserted his Black identity throughout his life and career. Playing basketball professionally through the 1970s and 1980s, he helped continue momentum for social change from the mainstream narrative civil rights decade of the 1960s. Born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., he told reporters in 1971 to call him by his new name: Kareem Abdul Jabbar. He made the change around the announcement of a state-sponsored trip to Africa by himself, his teammate Oscar Robertson, and coach Larry Costello.

Happy Birthday to basketball legend, historian, and thought leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b. April 16, 1947, in Harlem, NY), who has proudly asserted his Black...

04/14/2024

April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., less than a week after the Confederate surrender officially ended the Civil War. This made Lincoln into the ultimate martyr of American history and reshaped the Civil War memory-making process for many Americans. A white personal friend of Lincoln’s named Dr. Anson G. Henry reflected on the event in a letter five days later, writing: “I feel that there is no selfishness mixed up with my sorrow. The loss of Mr. Lincoln will not affect my personal interests unfavorably.” It is interesting to consider how the reactions of newly freed African Americans would differ in this regard. Many African Americans had not yet received the news of emancipation. For those that had, the person who issued this policy was now dead and the future was uncertain. For those who had not, such as people in Texas who would not learn of their freedom until June 19, perhaps they learned of Lincoln’s death and the Emancipation Proclamation on the same day. Or even in the same brief conversation.

April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., less than a week after the Confederate surrender officially ended the...

04/12/2024

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter is attacked by Confederate forces, officially beginning the U.S. Civil War. Since then, Fort Sumter itself has been the subject of much debate about Civil War public history and memory. For example, when just across the harbor a white supremacist murdered nine African Americans at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in 2015, the National Park Service changed its policies on Confederate flags at Fort Sumter. Site officials replaced the flagpoles holding Confederate flags with smaller ones that made these flags much less visible from outside the fort itself, causing nationwide uproar. These events launched a renewed national debate about the Confederate flag in American social memory. As a result, recent context informed many interpretations of the viral photograph showing an insurrectionist carrying a Confederate flag through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. As the federal agency in charge of national monuments and historic sites such as Fort Sumter, the National Park Service has a substantial role in shaping these conversations.

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter is attacked by Confederate forces, officially beginning the U.S. Civil War. Since then, Fort Sumter itself has been the subject o...

04/11/2024

Happy Birthday to civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo (born April 11, 1925, in California, PA). She was murdered in the aftermath of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march as she was driving demonstrators back to Selma in her car.

Citations: Robert A. Pratt, *Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality* (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 98-103, https://archive.org/details/selmasbloodysund0000prat; Lyndon B. Johnson, “Televised Remarks Announcing the Arrest of Members of the Ku Klux Klan,” The American Presidency Project, March 26, 1965, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/televised-remarks-announcing-the-arrest-members-the-ku-klux-klan; Carol M. Highsmith, "Memorial to Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo, Alabama," photograph (Alabama, April 5, 2010), https://lccn.loc.gov/2010638602.

Happy Birthday to civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo (born April 11, 1925, in California, PA). She was murdered in the aftermath of the 1965 Selma to Montgom...

04/10/2024

Happy Birthday to civil rights activist Johnnie Tillmon (born April 10, 1926, in Scott, AR), who organized and fought for economic support for women experiencing financial difficulty. She believed that the potential for autonomy and economic self-determination should be a fundamental right for all Americans.

Happy Birthday to civil rights activist Johnnie Tillmon (born April 10, 1926, in Scott, AR), who organized and fought for economic support for women experien...

04/09/2024

Happy Birthday to trailblazing composer Florence Price (born April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, AR), the first African American woman composer to have a large-scale piece of music performed by a major orchestra. This happened in 1933, when the Chicago Symphony played her Symphony in E Minor.

Happy Birthday to trailblazing composer Florence Price (born April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, AR), the first African American woman composer to have a large-sc...

04/05/2024

April 5, 1792: President George Washington issued the first presidential veto in the history of the United States, vetoing a bill that would use data from the first census to shift congressional power towards northern states. Washington himself attended the Constitutional Convention where presidential veto power was formulated. He made clear in explaining the first presidential veto that it was strictly based on the bill itself being unconstitutional, as violating the ratio of representatives put forth in the Constitution. After consulting the members of his cabinet, Washington sided with Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Attorney General Edmund Randolph on this matter over the opinions of the others.

April 5, 1792: President George Washington issued the first presidential veto in the history of the United States, vetoing a bill that would use data from th...

04/04/2024

April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis at age thirty-nine, sending many Americans into deep grief and mourning. This event also launched a wave of powerful social uprisings across the United States. As part of a 2008 oral history project in Baltimore, people who lived through these events recalled what they were like. Black Baltimorean Terry A. White was “about sixteen” in 1968. He described his reaction to Dr. King’s assassination as “You shot Martin Luther King, you shot us all.”

April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis at age thirty-nine, sending many Americans into deep grief and mou...

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