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Jazz The Professor
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Detroit born and bred. History is my passion. Music soothes the savage beast in me. Politics brings it out. Class is always in session. Knowledge is power.
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#OTD Mar 1, 1921: Idaho amended its anti-miscegenation law adding restrictions on interracial marriage. Idaho’s 1st anti-miscegenation law in 1864 banned marriage between a white person and "any person of African descent, Indian or Chinese”.
#History #BlackSky
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March 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#OTD Mar 1, 1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the 1st Black woman to earn a medical degree when she graduates from the New England Female Medical Collage. She also wrote one of the 1st medical manuals by a Black doctor in the U.S. and by a woman.
#History #BlackSky
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March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#OTD Mar 1, 1875: The "Civil Rights Act of 1875" is passed by Congress prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations. This act was later declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1883 in the "Civil Rights Cases”.
#History #BlackSky
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March 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#OTD Mar 1, 1780: Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act becoming the 1st state to began the process of ending enslavement in the western hemisphere.
#History #BlackSky
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March 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Daily Word, Verses of the Day…
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#SaturdayMotivation #SaturdayThought #SaturdayMorning
March 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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#OTD Feb 24, 1895: Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence. The war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
#History #BlackSky
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February 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#OTD Amanda Berry Smith joined the ancestors (Jan 23, 1837 – Feb 24, 1915). Methodist preacher, formerly enslaved, she founded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago.
#History #BlackSky
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February 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#OTD Feb 24, 1920: The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany.
#History #BlackSky
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February 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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#OTD Feb 24, 1980: Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, the 1st African Americans to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, place 2nd in Lake Placid, N.Y. Their 4-man team finished 12th.
#History #BlackSky
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February 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#OTD Katherine Johnson joined the ancestors (Aug 26, 1918-Feb 24, 2020). Mathematician, one of the 1st Black women to work as a NASA scientist. Her calculations of orbital mechanics led to the success of the 1st and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
#History #BlackSky
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February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#OTD Feb 24, 1895: Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence. The war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
#History #BlackSky
misiones.cubaminrex.cu/en/articulo/...
February 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#OTD Feb 24, 1865: The Kentucky General Assembly refused to endorse ending enslavement in America when it voted against ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished enslavement except as punishment for crime. It wasn’t ratified until 1976.
#History #BlackSky
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February 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#MondayMotivation #MondayThought #MondayMorning
February 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#FridayMotivation #FridayThought #FridayMorning
February 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was billed as a “Pro American Rally”. The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler.

Photos from the rally…
#History #BlackSky
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.
#History #BlackSky
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.

Photos from the rally
This is America…
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February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was captured from archival fragments filmed that night by Oscar-winning documentary director Marshall Curry in his film ‘A Night at the Garden’.
#History #BlackSky
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February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Billed as a “Pro American Rally”. It was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler.

This has been compared to Felon 47’s rallies.
#History #BlackSky
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#OTD Feb 20, 1939: 20,000 Americans held a pro-Nazi rally in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. It was billed as a “Pro American Rally”. The rally was sponsored by the German American Bund, who was openly supportive of Adolph Hitler.
#History #BlackSky
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February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#ThursdayMotivation #ThursdayThought
February 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#TuesdayMotivation #TuesdayThought #TuesdayMorning
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#OTD Feb 16, 1972: Wilt Chamberlain scores his 30,000th point in a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns . First player in the NBA to score 30,000 points.
#History #NBA #BlackSky
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#OTD Feb 16, 1974: The Black Panther
Vol. 11, No. 8
Artwork by Emory Douglas
#History #BlackSky
February 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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#OTD António Mascarenhas Monteiro (Feb 16, 1944 - Sept 16, 2016). First democratically elected President of Cape Verde from March 22, 1991 to March 22, 2001.
#History #BlackSky
www.caboverde-info.com/eng/Identity...
February 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM