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Curated by @k-wangking.bsky.social Here to unearth truth, while preserving the treasure trove that is #Blackhistory & the richness of its heritage. If trauma can be passed down, so can joy. www.instagram.com/blackheritagecache

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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Here are the identities of 46 Black men drafted during #WWI in 1918. Little did they know that they’d be fighting more than an international war. Just a few weeks into their training, the Spanish flu would hit Camp Greene in waves, forcing a 2-week quarantine. 🗃️ Rockingham post-dispatch 8/29/1918
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Lobby Cards from Black films (referred to as Race Films during the time) from the 1920s & 1930s: Lying Lips, 1939 Temptation, 1935 Life Goes On, 1938 Straight to Heaven, 1939
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Looking for some Black literature for your Sunday read? Read Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" --
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Zora Neale Hurston's Short Story: "SWEAT"
“Sweat stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern Black life, introducing themes of marital conflict and spiritual consciousness that animate Hurston’s mature fiction”
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Browse through the pages of an original Negro Motorist #GreenBook from 1946. Just imagine how many people who found protection in these pages because of the Black businesses, schools, restaurants, and lodging recorded during travel.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An advertisement from the 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Source: NMAAHC
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Between 1894 and 1900, Black men regained political influence in North Carolina when Populists & Republicans formed the integrated Fusionist coalition. It led to the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only successful coup of an elected government in U.S. history. American Coup: Wilmington 1898
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The Shearer Cottage was the oldest Black-owned inn on the island. The Shearers operated the twelve-room seasonal inn, creating a space of belonging and fellowship for multiple generations of the Black community of Martha's Vineyard. Ralp Lauren's A Portrait of the American Dream: Oak Bluffs (2025)
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Black Broadway was the catalyst for one of the most historically significant and defining eras in Black creativity. Written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyle, with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, Shuffle Along debuted on May 23, 1921, at the 63rd Street Music Hall.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
David Ruggles opened the 1st Black-owned bookstore in America 191 years ago. This entrepreneur carried abolitionist books & pamphlets, in addition to printing and selling his own. He later added a reading room & a lending library. A mob would destroy the bookstore the following year by arson fire.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Swarthmore College’s Black Studies Program in 1969
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Archibald Motley (1891-1981) painting Chicago’s Black culture and nightlife during the 1930s & 1940s. You’ll see that Motley incorporates the different skin tones in his artwork to show that all shades of Black makeup our community.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Group portraits of the ancestors at the Emancipation Day Celebration on June 19, 1900, held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin, Texas. #Juneteenth 🗃️ Austin History Center
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Lena Horne and her father, Teddy Horne in 1944
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Completely Random #BlackHistory Fact: Crispus Attucks was 6’2, mulatto, and had knock knees.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We must document our own stories to see past the spectrum of triumph and defeat.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Between 1924 and 1928, Rev. Solomon Sir Jones carried a 16mm camera in his hand, capturing the daily life and experience of over 30 Black towns in Oklahoma. When exploring history, we often focus on historical events and overlook the everyday lives of our ancestors.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RIP the innovating and majestic funk-rock pioneer Sylvester Stewart b.k.a Sly Stone, co-founder and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. 🕊️
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter! 📷 Charles" Teenie" Harris 🗃️ Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Of the 104 African American medical officers serving in WWI, 60% came from medical schools at 3 HBCUs: Meharry Medical College (34), Howard University Medical School (16), and Leonard Medical School (13). #BlackHistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Army officers of African American descent were almost non-existent in the regular army until WWI, even though we’ve participated in every major American war since the 1700s.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Have you ever heard of The Order of the Man of Oppression? The Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit? Probably because you weren't supposed to. Quiet as it's kept...there was a secret society a part of the Underground Railroad created by free-born African Americans #BlackHistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
You've got to applaud how the ancestors possessed a sense of direction. Check out these maps of #UndergroundRailroad routes.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Celebrating Black Love Today 🫶🏾 #BlackLove 📷 Davis & J.C., circa 1951 📷 Beth Chandler &Theodore John Warren Wedding, circa 1964 📷 Benjamin E. Mays and Sadie Gray Mays, August 9, 1951 📷 Priscilla & Regina, circa 1979
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🧵 African Americans and Labor: Transportation [1/3] C.R. Patterson & Sons Company was a successful carriage-building business founded by Charles Richard Patterson, a “fugitive slave” who escaped Virginia in 1861 and settled in Ohio to establish a family and business. #BlackHistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Poro College, a beauty school by Annie Turnbo Malone, was created to “contribute to the economic betterment of Race Women.” The institution opened its doors in 1917 in St. Louis to train African American women in cosmetology, recruit agents, and provide them with business skills. #BlackHistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We’ll be celebrating this #BlackHistory Month by continuing to sort through the archive of memories passed down by our ancestors about the unyielding contributions of African American labor.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“We cannot be erased. America would not be America without the contributions, work, significance, and labor of Black People.” - Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, ASALH President
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Then unearth the truth! Maybe the Air Force needs to reasses & reconstruct the narrative of their public history records. Don’t just acknowledge the “Black pilots” incorporate them into the teachings of the missions, historical events and hidden figures. 🗣️ #Blackhistory IS STILL history.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
In the 1930s, the “Don't Buy Where You Can’t Work” or “Buy Where You Can Work” campaign emerged to boycott discriminatory businesses and encourage Black economic self-sufficiency. #Blackhistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on this day.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
'For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.' www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
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Shattered in the Fire: A Historic Black Haven (Gift Article)
For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Segregation academies and a forgotten migration: @crystalsanders.bsky.social, author of A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs joined The Broadside @wunc.org to discuss:
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Segregation academies and a forgotten migration
Today’s push for school vouchers highlights America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What do you know about the original “Fly Girls” aka the collective of Black women who intergrated airlines in the U.S. as stewardess and flight attendants? #blackhistory
Pictured are a few of the pioneering Black woman flight attendants: Patricia Banks, Casey Grant, Patricia Grace Murphy, Léopoldine Doualla-Bell Smith, and Margaret Grant
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy Independence Day Haiti 🇭🇹 Want to talk about how Haiti became an authority and model for Black power in the 19th century? #blackhistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Christmas Photographs from 1945 to 1969 🎄🎁 Wishing you and your family a safe and Happy Holidays! 🗃️ Charles Harris. Heinz Family Fund. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. #merrychristmas #happyholidays
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This week's #MustardMoments is on Clarence Mitchell Jr., a chief lobbyist for the NAACP who had a run in with the police about entering a formerly white only waiting room at a South Carolina train station in 1956. #blackhistory
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#GirlDad circa 1965. 🗃️ Rolland J. Curtis Collection. Los Angeles Public Library.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Watts Festival Parade, Los Angeles. circa 1969 Robert Sengstacke. Arts Institute of Chicago.
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Archiving The Black Web @atbw.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Applications now open for our Web Archiving School. We’re looking for Fellows, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. Deadline to apply is January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
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WArc School – ATBW
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Silk T’Challa 🫳🏾 @k-wangking.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Let me tell you something- Black people will find a way to live life and create joy under any circumstances #blacklove #blackhistory #blacksky
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🧵 #MustardMoments : The 6888th & #WWII At a time when the Army wanted to prove that Black people were mentally unfit for duty, our impact in Europe disproved it. The #6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the first and only African American women's unit to serve overseas during the war.
American Women's Army Corps (WAC) Captain Mary Kearney and American WAC Commanding Officer Major Charity Adams (1918-2002) inspect the first arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion at a temporary post in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, 15th February 1945.
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While We Are Still Here @wwsh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Looking for holiday gift ideas? Our holiday gift guide can help you find the perfect gift for the book lovers on your list. Consider giving a gift that celebrates Harlem's cultural heritage. #harlem
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Look at the joy on #NikkiGiovanni's face while receiving an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Hartford in 2020. #BlackJoy 🗃️ University of Hartford
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The Crossroads Project @xroadproj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The recordings of our two SPIRIT HOUSE sessions on Mapping African American Religion and Narrating African American religion are available in the Crossroads Media Library. crossroads.princeton.edu/resources/me...
A black-and-white photograph of a river baptism. 

Text: Spirit House sessions: Conversations with Crossroads Project Fellows
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🧵 I’m sure the passing of Nikki Giovanni wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card, but here we are, saddened by the loss and joyful for an ancestor. Let’s tribute this week’s #BlackHistory #MustardMoments to #NikkiGiovanni for her contributions during the Black Arts Movement & Civil Rights Movement
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Register for SPIRIT HOUSE Sessions: Mapping African American Religion December 10, 2024 from 4:30-6:00pm ET Featuring Alexis McKenney, Kelsey Moore, Cori Tucker-Price, and Judith Weisenfeld, and moderated by Nicole Myers Turner. crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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SPIRIT HOUSE Sessions: Mapping African American Religion
SPIRIT HOUSE Sessions feature Crossroads Project Fellows in conversation with scholars in the field about their projects. This event highlights projects that use mapping to interpret Black Religious H...
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Say Burgin @sayburgin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On Wednesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking on the weaponization of pre-trial detention against Black Freedom activists in SNCC. The event is part of the @mhs1791.bsky.social African American Seminar Series. Register and join us! 18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/Afric...
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Nikki Giovanni Jun. 7, 1943 - Dec. 9, 2024 A poet, educator and activist now turned ancestor. There aren’t enough ways to thank her for the wisdom and character she contributed to our revolution.
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Black Heritage Cache @blackheritagecache.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Portrait of Zenobia Clark — circa 1902 Claude and Zenobia Clark were the children of barber Joseph C. Clark, a migrant from South Carolina, and Laurie Harden Clark, born in Georgia.
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The Black Press @ 200 @blackpress200.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The Freedom’s Journal was the nation’s first newspaper owned and operated by African Americans. Only lasting two years, from 1827-1829, the Freedom’s Journal was pivotal in becoming an outlet that allowed African Americans a voice of their own.
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