Winner of the 2015 Carter G. Woodson Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the National Education Association
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Baldwin's work explored themes of race, sexuality & spirituality. Click to read the entry on Baldwin: bit.ly/2OBonm2.
Interested in even more??? 🤔 Check out his book Fire Next Time and the novels Giovanni's Room, Another Country, and If Beale Street Could Talk. #Pride (3/3)
Happy Pride Month!!!
Today we remember & honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. #MemorialDay
“All I know is that if I love you, I love you.”
This clip of these two icons having a conversation spoke to me today. Baldwin: "If I love you, I love you." (1/3)
This month I'll be highlighting some of the entries from our Uplifting LGBTQ History page. Stay tuned! Also, feel free to check out the page any time!➡️ bit.ly/4xoJM7G
James Baldwin (1924-87) was author, activist & intellectual. His 1st novel, the semi-autobiographical Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), was ranked 1 of the 100 best English language novels by Time & Modern Library of the 20th century. #Pride (2/3) ➡️ bit.ly/2OBonm2
Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people.
She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019.
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Terry Pitchford, now 40, was 18 when he and a friend decided to rob the Crossroads Grocery in northern Mississippi. The friend shot the store owner three times, fatally wounding him, but was under 18 and ineligible for the death penalty. Pitchford was tried for capital murder and sentenced to death.
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#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded “Chicago Defender.”
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat‘l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
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“All I know is that if I love you, I love you.”
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James Arthur Baldwin, a fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York, during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School ...
This special section of BlackPast.org is dedicated to presenting the history of people of African descent who are also Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered & Queer (LGBTQ).
