Category: Activism
The Birth of Motown
On January 13th, 1959, with an $800 loan from his family, 29-year-old Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Tamla Records; Motown was born and Detroit would make…
Spindle Top: The Return of the Dinosaurs
On this day in 1901, the American oil industry is born as a gusher named Spindle Top blows; the United States would never be the…
Racism Is Taught
I saw a post on facebook the other day, and this poster reckoned as how racist of today were probably beat up by blacks sometime…
The Peace Warrior From Missoula
On this day in 1916 Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973) of Montana is elected the first woman to the US House of Representatives and the first…
Martyrdom at Dawn
At dawn on this day in 1915, 49-year-old British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium. Before World War…
I Will Fight No More Forever
On this day in 1904, the remarkable Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies on the Colville reservation in northern Washington at the age of 64….
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