For Black History Month. Post unknown stories

[HomerJS]

Ran across this so started a black history thread for stories unknown to you. Just spreading the word.

This story is fascination and is being considered to be played by Zendaya. I never heard the story but if it comes to fruition, it will drive conservatives nuts. It will also bring out all the so called black conservatives getting paid to dump on anything black.

 

[Brainonska511]

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Waverly Woodson Jr, and his actions on Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings. As a black American, his heroic actions were largely, and wrongly overlooked.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

There's a small community in Southwestern Ontario near where I live that is designated a National Historic Site. On the grounds are recreations of living conditions etc... but also shackles worn by slaves who followed the Underground Railroad and includes a letter from Frederick Douglas detailing his own experiences as a slave in Maryland and a gravesite for the first inhabitants, 15 freed slaves who settled in the community.

It's a really moving place to visit and understand the history that exists in small unassuming communities.

Buxton National Historic Site & Museum: Home​

 

[feralkid]

Not totally unknown, but:

Anything regarding The Red Tails, also known as The Tuskegee Airmen. They flew from beginning to end of WWII.

So many stories of them I haven't heard.


Also CNN? did a special on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, of which I was only vaguely aware.

Here's some pretty unknown local history (every Northern city has a similar tale). Sugar Hill.

 

[Fenixgoon]

PBS Origins youtube channel has amazing, otherwise-untold stories of history,

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsorigins

and specifically has this playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mtdjDVOoOqr3J4PoNbbP60f58B06Td3

 

[DisarmedDespot]

Probably one of the most unique people in German history is Anton Wilhelm Amo. Arrived in Germany (potentially as a slave) in the 1700s and became a professor during the Enlightenment.

 

[BoomerD]

Rosewood, Florida.

 

[HomerJS]

Rosewood, Florida.

Not only were there no reparations like Tulsa OK. Just to add insult to injury Florida now teaches little black kids the benefits of being enslaved

But this country is going forwards, right?