Bid Whist and Sleeping Car Porters
Sleeping car porters are a well-known part of history. The card game of Bid Whist is not. Yet the story of the men and the story of the card game […]
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Black leaders have been vital to making America strong.
Sleeping car porters are a well-known part of history. The card game of Bid Whist is not. Yet the story of the men and the story of the card game […]
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Dr. Charles Drew was a pioneer in medicine who achieved recognition in a racially divided America for his work with blood collection and storage during World War II. But those
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The Red Ball Express was a desperately needed World War II truck transport system that came about six weeks after D-Day. By late July of 1944, the Allies were progressing
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree and was a true trailblazer in several ways. In her medical practice, she saw that women needed
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first Black labor organization to be accepted as part of the American Federation of Labor. (The AF of L was formed in
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The town of Allensworth, California, is one of a good number of Black townships that sprouted up in different parts of the country after the Civil War and beyond, as
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