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They won't tell you about these amazing Black inventors at school! In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/bMnA0F57cO
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In 1944 a sixteen-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio, won an essay contest on the theme 'What to Do with Hitler after the War' by submitting the single sentence. "Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America." #BlackHistoryMonth
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Meet Frederick McKinley Jones, a man who invented the air conditioning unit. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/k9va83wXu7
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Viola Davis - The first Black actor in history to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony. A legend. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/rLQxOPWZEn
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12-year-old Dymond Milburn was severely beaten by 3 plainclothes police officers because they thought she was a prostitute. Sean Stewart, one of the cops involved, later received "Officer of the year" #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/0l2DFrHi2M
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Caroline Still Wiley Anderson, born in 1848. Graduated from Oberlin, the only black woman in class, later taught at Howard University, In 1878 became Philadelphia's first black doctor. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/ynN405PYbo
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They snatched flags outta young black people hands because they didn't want you to be a part of America. Now they're mad because you won't stand up for the same damn flag #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/pREsr6bePK
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I'd like this to be the time to kick your husband out of the White House. It would be another achievement to celebrate on #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/dQQpgCHfqC
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Did you know that dry cleaning was invented in 1821 by a black man named Thomas Jennings? Thomas Jennings owned a dry cleaning business in New York City and was the first black man in the United States to be granted a patent. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/cbG4Z8SWs5
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Ed Dwight was the first African American accepted into the Astronaut Program. He left the program due to discrimination before ever going into space. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/wOD82nIrl1
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Here's a visual reminder of what Ruby Bridges faced every day and why what she did was so powerful. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/yXUbxK6gjJ
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Black people in ancient Rome were not discriminated against. They were not excluded from any profession and there was no stigma against mixed race relationships. Classical writers did not attach social status or degree of humanity to skin color. #BlackHistoryMonth
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In 1925 an all-black basketball team in Wichita, Kansas played an exhibition against a local KKK Klavern, with Irish Catholics serving as umpires. The black team won 10-8. #BlackHistoryMonth
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There is a 1/2 mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/JuERIDjf6h
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Mack Robinson, brother of Jackie Robinson, medaled in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Upon returning home to California, the only work he could find as an African American was sweeping streets, which he did while wearing his Olympic 'USA' sweatshirt. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/mkwHcmNhbO
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There is a small town outside Fort Worth, TX named White Settlement. In 2005, a record number of voters turned out to oppose changing the name to something less racist-sounding and then proceeded to call for the mayor's resignation for even proposing the change #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/q0C5w3ZQsT
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Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack are widely credited with helping end segregation in Las Vegas, by refusing to perform in venues that wouldn't allow blacks. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/Ux6Ci2eld1
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Up until 1960's, black Americans with cars could purchase a "Green Book" that would tell them which towns across America had colored facilities, which towns didn't accept black people out after dark, and which places to avoid visiting if they wanted to survive #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/Wsx6d9z5rg
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David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a segregated pool in Florida on June 8, 1958, which resulted in officials closing the facility. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/fjZJMiMpnk
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Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of "Gone with the Wind," was unable to attend the film's premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/gI70r4Y1GS
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2014: A white business owner from Chicago, IL slapped and spat on an elderly black woman shouting "Rosa Parks MOVE!". She happened to be a Cook County Judge on a cigarette break? #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/NX45Sn4STx
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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, I RESIST a president who has called African countries “shithole countries”, NFL players “sons of bitches” and Neo-Nazis “very fine people.” Donald Trump does not represent or respect the diverse nation that we are. I am proud to be black American!
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In 1943 Packard Motors promoted 3 blacks to work next to whites on the assembly line causing 25,000 workers to walk off the job. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/bHsS0RR6oH
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When Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/xGRAgi3UTl
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In 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, known as "black wall street", to ground. Firebombs were dropped from planes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996. #BlackHistoryMonth
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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth let it stay here. LangstonHughes, America's great black #gay poet of the Harlem Renaissance, born on this day in 1902, published his first book at 22. He wrote: "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. https://t.co/16bZDpAEno
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In 1921 whites in Oklahoma slaughtered up to 300 blacks, buried them in mass graves, and burned down their town in the worst race riot in US history, This was done because of a made-up newspaper headline. #BlackHistoryMonth
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William L. Moore, a white mailman was murdered in Mississippi in 1963 while walking to the governor's mansion to deliver a letter condemning segregation. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/ckTd48ZoVT
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The NFL moved 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona after residents there voted against recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day. #BlackHistoryMonth
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