José Andrade, born in Uruguay in 1901 (his father had freed himself from enslavement in Brazil) brought Uruguay’s national soccer team to prominence in the 1920s & "put football on the map of international sports" according to one historian. He won 2 Olympic gold medals & the 1st FIFA World Cup.
Historian of slavery here the Pope is single handedly showing us the best of America in these very troubling times and needed on the 250th of the republic, to see the virtues that made the U.S. admired all over the world, the ability to admit a mistake. apnews.com/article/pope...
Mary Silvinia Burghardt Du Bois, with her sister and infant son William - aka W. E. B. Du Bois. The Burghardts descended from a formerly enslaved ancestor who fought in the American Revolution.
Matilda Sissieretta Jones (b. 1868 in Virginia) was a renowned opera singer who performed at the White House (multiple times), at Madison Square Garden (with Antonin Dvorak), headlined at Carnegie Hall in 1893, & toured the Caribbean, South America, & England.
According to David Blight’s 2001 book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, a commemoration organized by freed slaves and some white missionaries took place on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, S.C., at a former planters’ racetrack
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Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery. Leo’s own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners.
During the American Revolution, James Armistead La Fayette gathered intelligence from British troops that enabled the Patriot victory at Yorktown. Having risked his life - among thousands of Black Patriots - for the establishment of the United States, he petitioned for his freedom which was granted.
The book “lays a historical understanding for the Black freedom struggles of the 1950s-60s. That moral revolution of the US becomes comprehensible in a new way bc we understand just how deep the roots extend into the history of the nation, the continent, & the world” www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSG7...
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In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people.
It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day.
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Christina Proenza-Coles
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Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
Good #America250 story. You can read James Lafayette's petition for freedom here.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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During the American Revolution, James Armistead La Fayette gathered intelligence from British troops that enabled the Patriot victory at Yorktown. Having risked his life - among thousands of Black Patriots - for the establishment of the United States, he petitioned for his freedom which was granted.
