Sepideh<p>From <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/28DaysOfBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>28DaysOfBlackHistory</span></a>, Day 16, Curt Flood </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/tM9FIMwXeVk?si=GyFg7UYgVY3V-mH8&t=84" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/tM9FIMwXeVk?si=GyFg7U</span><span class="invisible">YgVY3V-mH8&t=84</span></a></p>
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Sepideh<p>From <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/28DaysOfBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>28DaysOfBlackHistory</span></a>, 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. </p><p>Some community elders have told me that they were not allowed to try on shoes as children. </p><p>I asked them how they could tell if shoes fit. They had to trace their feet and guess. </p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4db1dd4f8bfb/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289738?e=749e353b86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/4db1dd4f8bfb/a-phil</span><span class="invisible">ip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289738?e=749e353b86</span></a></p>
Sepideh<p>From <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/28DaysOfBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>28DaysOfBlackHistory</span></a>, Day 3 is William Lucy and the <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/Memphis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memphis</span></a> Sanitation strike. This is the protest where MLK, Jr was assassinated, and people went out to march after his death.</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/28daysofblackhistory/william-lucy-28-days-of-black-history-17289737?e=749e353b86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/28daysofblackhistor</span><span class="invisible">y/william-lucy-28-days-of-black-history-17289737?e=749e353b86</span></a></p>
Sepideh<p>From <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/28DaysOfBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>28DaysOfBlackHistory</span></a>, Day 2 is Isaac Myers who organized the Black caulkers in <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baltimore</span></a>. </p><p>The Black caulkers were fired from the shipyards because the white caulkers asked for them to be fired. </p><p>They raised money to open their own shipyard in Fells Point and were profitable within a year.</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/38c26eb7f2b5/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289736?e=749e353b86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/38c26eb7f2b5/a-phil</span><span class="invisible">ip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history-17289736?e=749e353b86</span></a></p>
Sepideh<p>From <a href="https://androiddev.social/tags/28daysofblackhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>28daysofblackhistory</span></a> , A. Philip Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.</p><p>I did not know that all the Pullman Porters were called "George." That was so deeply weird and by weird, I mean racist.</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/8e7a2ed98191/a-philip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history?e=749e353b86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/8e7a2ed98191/a-phil</span><span class="invisible">ip-randolph-28-days-of-black-history?e=749e353b86</span></a></p>
Antwhat<p>February is Black History month! You can sign up here to receive one newsletter per day during this month about Black history and future!</p><p>The theme for 2025 is African Americans and Labor, “focusing on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree.”</p><p><a href="https://www.28daysofblackhistory.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">28daysofblackhistory.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BalckHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BalckHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AntiRacism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/28DaysOfBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>28DaysOfBlackHistory</span></a></p>
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