#28DaysOfBlackHistory
From #28DaysOfBlackHistory, Day 4 is Maggie Lena Walker who set up a Black bank and a department store because white department stores would not let Black people try on their clothes.
Some community elders have told me that they were not allowed to try on shoes as children.
I asked them how they could tell if shoes fit. They had to trace their feet and guess.
https://mailchi.mp/4db1dd4f8bfb/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289738?e=749e353b86
From #28DaysOfBlackHistory, Day 3 is William Lucy and the #Memphis Sanitation strike. This is the protest where MLK, Jr was assassinated, and people went out to march after his death.
https://mailchi.mp/28daysofblackhistory/william-lucy-28-days-of-black-history-17289737?e=749e353b86
From #28DaysOfBlackHistory, Day 2 is Isaac Myers who organized the Black caulkers in #Baltimore.
The Black caulkers were fired from the shipyards because the white caulkers asked for them to be fired.
They raised money to open their own shipyard in Fells Point and were profitable within a year.
https://mailchi.mp/38c26eb7f2b5/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289736?e=749e353b86
From #28daysofblackhistory , A. Philip Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
I did not know that all the Pullman Porters were called "George." That was so deeply weird and by weird, I mean racist.
https://mailchi.mp/8e7a2ed98191/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history?e=749e353b86
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