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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY posts on X about history, black, the first, in the the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social topic influence history #427, black #245, the first #729, in the 7.64%, united states #4953, education #3208, jr #3709, the most 3.18%, space 2.55%, ethiopia #967

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"Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock N Roll. Before Elvis Johnny Cash or Little Richard there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves"
X Link 2024-02-17T20:31Z 1.1M followers, 2.6M engagements

"Mother Daughter and Maid Johannesburg South Africa 1977"
X Link 2025-09-06T10:40Z 1.1M followers, 6.9M engagements

"On this day in [----] Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela a revolutionary leader was released from prison after [--] years"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 29.8K engagements

"On this day in [----] Isaac Woodard WWII veteran hours after being honorably discharged was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury. Isaac enlisted in the U.S. Army in [----] at Fort Jackson in Columbia S.C and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February [----] the decorated soldier received an honorable discharge at Camp Gordon which is located near Augusta Georgia. Along with other discharged soldiers Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus on February"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 238.8K engagements

""If you stick a knife in my back [--] inches and pull it out [--] inches that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." Malcolm X"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 621.1K engagements

"Untitled 1895"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 55K engagements

"5 types of mind after slavery in reference to Boondocks"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 214.5K engagements

""They buried Lumumba In an unmarked grave. But he needs no marker For air is his grave. Sun is his grave Moon is stars are Space is his grave. My heart's his grave And it's marked there. Tomorrow will mark it everywhere." Langston Hughes"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:45Z 1.1M followers, 32.6K engagements

"If you'd like to support my page/project through tips to keep up you can do that on: http://ko-fi.com/africanarchives http://ko-fi.com/africanarchives"
X Link 2022-10-26T03:38Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Yasuke was the worlds first Black samurai. When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto. A THREAD"
X Link 2022-12-27T20:58Z 1.1M followers, 8.8M engagements

"On this day in [----] Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X was assasinated. Gone but not forgotten. Rest In Power"
X Link 2023-02-21T16:00Z 1.1M followers, 7.4M engagements

""I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." Leopold II of Belgium Before Hitler killed [--] million Jews.. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over [--] million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others. A THREAD"
X Link 2023-03-30T17:02Z 1.1M followers, 7.4M engagements

"Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage lost their language customs and traditions picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners. Took names with no last names no birth certificates no heritage of any kind braved the Underground Railroad survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping. Learned"
X Link 2023-06-15T20:35Z 1.1M followers, 11M engagements

"Unknown Bahamian-American family Key West Florida 1900"
X Link 2023-08-17T03:04Z 1.1M followers, 461.7K engagements

"Yasuke was the worlds first Black samurai. When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto. A THREAD"
X Link 2023-12-27T23:12Z 1.1M followers, 5.7M engagements

"Sammy Davis Jr. Vs. Wilt Chamberlain boxing match 😂"
X Link 2024-07-23T14:32Z 1.1M followers, 19.4M engagements

"James Baldwin Response to Why must you always concentrate on color"
X Link 2024-09-21T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements

"Black Neighborhood In North Carolina 1938"
X Link 2024-09-28T14:35Z 1.1M followers, 5.2M engagements

"Member of the Black Panther party explains why theyre opening a clinic in Chicago 1969"
X Link 2024-12-19T16:15Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements

""We do not have a history of killing white people white people have a history of killing us." Louis Farrakhan"
X Link 2025-07-31T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements

"Black Students Asked Why They Chose To Attend a HBCU 1978"
X Link 2025-08-02T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 102.1K engagements

"Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom"
X Link 2025-08-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements

"Philip Downing patented his invention the street letter box the predecessor of todays mailbox in [----]. In the 1800s anyone interested in mailing a letter would have to make the long trip to the post office. Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October [--] [----]. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of today's mailbox. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971906768151199853 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1971906768151199853"
X Link 2025-09-27T11:56Z 1.1M followers, 39.5K engagements

"Photo taken over [--] years ago and were still dealing with the same struggles"
X Link 2025-10-17T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 3.8M engagements

"A white police officer in plain clothes jumps in to arrest a group of white and Black American integrationists in a segregated pool in Florida 1964"
X Link 2025-12-30T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 2M engagements

"which one did you learn in school 🖌How Successful Black Communities Were Burnt Down Through Race https://ko-fi.com/Post/How-Successful-Black-Communities-Were-Burnt-Down-T-L3L3LMATW https://ko-fi.com/Post/How-Successful-Black-Communities-Were-Burnt-Down-T-L3L3LMATW"
X Link 2026-01-05T18:02Z 1.1M followers, 208.3K engagements

"Black is Beautiful Martin Luther King Jr"
X Link 2026-01-18T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 135.1K engagements

"Ethiopia was the only African country successful to resist European colonization. Women marched alongside men to the battle at Adwa in [----]. Just like their men Ethiopian women were ready to sacrifice themselves to prevent colonialists from sneaking into their country thus forcing their children to live in servitude. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017553534384828635 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017553534384828635"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 19.7K engagements

"January [--] [----] Baseball legend Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia. He broke barriers and became the first black person to play in Major League Baseball. He also remains the only athlete to ever letter in four sports: baseball football basketball and track in UCLA history"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 41K engagements

"Nina Simone on why we need to celebrate ourselves when others don't"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 85.4K engagements

"Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter group Ramitelli Italy. Circa 1945"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 117K engagements

"Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was an African prince spent [--] years enslaved in America. Born in the late 18th century in what is now Guinea Abdulrahman was the son of a powerful ruler of the Futa Jallon region. He was educated multilingual and trained in leadership. While traveling during a military conflict he was captured sold into the transatlantic slave trade and eventually taken to the United States. Abdulrahman spent more than [--] years enslaved in Mississippi working on plantations despite his royal background. For decades he tried to explain who he was but few believed that an enslaved"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:05Z 1.1M followers, 33.5K engagements

"On this day in [----] four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 70.7K engagements

"February [--] 1960: At 4:30pm Four African-American students initiated the sit-in movement by sitting down at Woolworth's lunch counter at [---] South Elm Street in Greensboro North Carolina. The four freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) and David Richmond stayed until the store closed. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017946126666584477 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017946126666584477"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Mood ✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 56K engagements

"In [----] Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago. #BlackHistoryMonth A THREAD"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 31.1K engagements

"Many people however believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. But the truth is that the Kinzie family purchased their property from a French trader who had purchased it from Jean-Baptiste"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [---] engagements

"He died in August [----] and because he was a Black man many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in [----] after the Great Migration a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [---] engagements

"Studying history will sometimes DISTURB you. Studying history will sometimes UPSET you. Studying history will sometimes make you FURIOUS. If studying history always makes you feel proud and happy you probably aren't studying history. #Blackhistorymonth"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 26K engagements

"Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz pictured with their daughters and Muhammad Ali 1964"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:45Z 1.1M followers, 25K engagements

"Ahmed Baba was one of the most influential African intellectuals of the 16th century. His writings and public opposition to Moroccan rule led to his arrest and exile. Born in Timbuktu in [----] Ahmed Baba was a jurist theologian historian and legal scholar at a time when Timbuktu was one of the worlds leading centers of learning. He came from a long line of scholars and received a rigorous education in law theology grammar and history. Ahmed Baba wrote more than [--] books and owned a personal library of over [----] volumesan extraordinary number in the 16th century. His writings addressed Islamic"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:26Z 1.1M followers, 34.1K engagements

"James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni on the police 1971"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 37.3K engagements

"Mary Wilson the first Black American senior zookeeper at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore 1966"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 130.4K engagements

"Well behaved women seldom make history. #BlackHistoryMonth"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:00Z 1.1M followers, 48.1K engagements

"The Great Walls of Benin spanning roughly [-----] km were the worlds largest man-made earthwork surpassed only by Chinas Great Wall in length. They required [---] times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Tragically the British destroyed much of Benin City in 1897"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 34.8K engagements

"Mental Slavery Begins At School. #BlackHistoryMonth"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 78.9K engagements

"Sister Souljah response to then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton who compared her to KKK Grand Wizard David Duke 1992"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 199.9K engagements

"In [----] Sister Souljah responded sharply to then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clintons comparison of her to KKK Grand Wizard David Duke accusing him of using her as a "political football" and a "Democratic version of Willie Horton" to scare white voters and boost his presidential campaign. #BlackHistoryMonth https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018701157590347826 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018701157590347826"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 10.3K engagements

"Vicente Guerrero a black and indigenous mule driver became a revolutionary leader Mexicos 2nd president and abolished but ultimately executed. The first Black President of Mexico. A THREAD"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 17.8K engagements

"Born in [----] in Tixtla Guerreros Afro-Mexican father Juan Pedro and Indigenous mother Guadalupe Saldaa shaped his roots. He worked as a mule driver spoke Nahuatl and built deep ties with Indigenous communities"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:15Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"In [----] he joined the Mexican War of Independence under Jos Mara Morelos. Despite no formal education Guerreros courage and tactics stood out fighting Spanish colonial rule with the motto La patria es primero (My country comes first)"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:15Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Abubakari II ruler of of the Mali Empire abandoned his throne to sail westand never returned. In the early 14th century Abubakari II ruled the Mali Empire one of the most powerful and wealthy empires of its time. At the height of that power he made a decision almost unheard of for a reigning monarch: he gave up his throne to pursue exploration across the Atlantic Ocean. According to accounts from Malis royal court Abubakari II had already sent out an earlier expedition of ships. Only one vessel returned. Instead of retreating he organized a far larger fleet and chose to lead the next journey"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 45.8K engagements

"The gas mask and the modern traffic light were both invented by the same person: Garrett Morgan. Born in [----] to parents who had been enslaved Garrett Morgan grew up with limited formal education but an extraordinary mechanical mind. He became an inventor at a time when Black Americans were largely shut out of patents funding and recognition. In [----] Morgan invented a breathing device designed to protect people from smoke and toxic fumes. His invention gained national attention in [----] after an explosion trapped workers in a water tunnel beneath Lake Erie in Cleveland. Morgan and his brother"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 123.5K engagements

"Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks In [----] she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and got arrested for violating the citys racial segregation laws"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 24.9K engagements

"Colonel Charles Young was the first Black American to achieve the rank of colonel in the United States Army. Born in [----] in Mays Lick Kentucky to parents who had been enslaved Charles Young grew up in the aftermath of the Civil War. His father Gabriel Young served in the Union Army. At just twenty years old Young earned an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point graduating in [----] as only the third Black American to do so. Because of segregation his early assignments were restricted to the Buffalo Soldier regiments including service with the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 25th"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:18Z 1.1M followers, 33.4K engagements

"George Washington Carver as a college student in Iowa circa 1890"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 26.1K engagements

"I don't think people realize how young Medgar Malcolm and Martin were. Not one of them saw 40"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 336.9K engagements

"Desegregation Bussing On First Day Of School In Dallas 1971"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 26.6K engagements

"Did you know that an entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park. The community was called Seneca Village. It spanned from 82nd Street to 89th Street. Long before these trees paths and open lawns existed this land was home to Seneca Villagea thriving community founded in [----] by free Black Americans. Located between what we now know as West 82nd Street and West 89th Street Seneca Village was a place of stability ownership and independence during a time when those things were deliberately denied to many. Families here owned their homes. They built"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 51.9K engagements

"On this day in [----] legendary reggae artiste Nesta Robert Marley a.k.a Bob Marley was born"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 41K engagements

"People can be imprisoned silenced exiled or killedbut ideas do not die with them. Throughout history those who challenged injustice were often treated as threats rather than reformers. Governments tried to suppress their influence through surveillance arrests bans and violence. Yet the ideas they carried continued to move through communities long after attempts were made to erase them. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019758085791703499 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019758085791703499"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 20.5K engagements

"In [----] when Black Americans were prevented from swimming alongside whites Mr. Rogers decided to invite officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool breaking a well known color barrier. On an episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood he invited Franois Clemmons who played Officer Clemmons to sit beside him and cool their feet together in a small pool. No speeches. No shouting. No confrontation. Just two men side by side sharing water. At a moment when shared pools symbolized exclusion this simple act became a powerful rebuke to racism. Mr. Rogers didnt preach at childrenhe showed"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 34.3K engagements

"Clara B. Williams college professors did not allow her inside the classroom because she was Black. But that didnt stop her. She took notes from the hallwaystanding up She eventually graduated at the age of [--] and lived to [---] years old and saw her [--] sons become doctors. Clara Belle Drisdale Williams 1885-1993 was the valedictorian of the graduating class of Prairie New Normal and Independent College now (Prairie View A & M University) in [----]. She enrolled at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the fall of [----] after taking some courses at the University of Chicago."
X Link 2026-02-06T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 43.8K engagements

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King"
X Link 2026-02-07T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 41.2K engagements

"Martin Luther King Jr. explaining why black Americans face more obstacles than white European immigrants"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 50.2K engagements

"At Buchenwald Schramm faced brutal conditions working in a stone quarry. Communist prisoners like Willi Bleicher and Otto Grosse protected him hiding him during roll calls"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Schramm witnessed atrocities including the murder of a Jewish prisoner. He was at Buchenwald during its liberation in April [----] when Weimar citizens saw the camps horrors"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Schramm spoke at schools and served on the Buchenwald Memorial board. In [----] he received the German National Merit Order for his anti-racism work inspired by events like the [----] murder of Amadeu Antonio"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Mother smiles as she poses with her eight children circa 1950s"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 46.7K engagements

"Thomas Edison did not single-handedly invent the light bulb. What he helped commercialize was a system. What Lewis Latimer helped make possible was light itself lasting long enough to be useful. In the late 19th century early electric light bulbs existedbut they burned out quickly were expensive and were impractical for everyday use. Lewis Latimer a brilliant draftsman engineer and inventor developed an improved carbon filament that made light bulbs last longer burn more evenly and become affordable for widespread use. Without a durable filament a bulb could not function reliably. In simple"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:05Z 1.1M followers, 31K engagements

"George Taliaferro was the first black player drafted in the NFL. In the [----] NFL Draft Taliaferro was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 13th round (129th overall) breaking a barrier in a league that had long been slow to include Black athletes in its formal selection process. Although he chose to honor a contract with the Los Angeles Dons of the rival All-America Football Conference that year his selection marked a historic first in NFL history a moment that helped open doors for the generations of Black athletes who followed. Before the pros Taliaferro was already a force at Indiana"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 36.9K engagements

"How cornrows were used as an escape map from slavery. #BlackHistoryMonth Read https://buymeacoffee.com/africanarchives/how-cornrows-used-escape-map-slavery https://buymeacoffee.com/africanarchives/how-cornrows-used-escape-map-slavery"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:00Z 1.1M followers, 10.9K engagements

"I keep an off-X archive of my work here supported by readers: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AfricanArchives https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AfricanArchives"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder 1975"
X Link 2023-10-17T03:05Z 1.1M followers, 38.6M engagements

"A man rides a bus in Durban meant for white passengers only in resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies 1986"
X Link 2025-10-07T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements

"We need to speak up about what is happening in SUDAN its a GENOCIDE that has led to the World's largest displacement crisis. So Whats Happening in Sudan and How is UAE (Emirates) supporting the genocide #FreeSudan THREAD"
X Link 2025-10-31T12:02Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements

"On this day in [----] Obama was elected President of the United States"
X Link 2025-11-04T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 3.9M engagements

"Over [---] Years of Institutional Racism. Slavery (1619-1865) Black Codes (1865-1866) KKK (1865-) Jim Crow (1877-1954) Redlining (1934-1968) War On Drugs (1971-) Mass Incarceration (1973-) Three Strikes Law(1993-)"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 355.3K engagements

"James Baldwin Response to Why must you always concentrate on color"
X Link 2026-01-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 349.5K engagements

"The Land Rush of [----] also known as the Cherokee Outlet Opening or the Cherokee Strip Land Rush marked the opening to settlement of the Cherokee Outlet in the Oklahoma Territory's fourth and largest land run. It was part of what would later become the state of Oklahoma in 1907"
X Link 2026-01-13T19:05Z 1.1M followers, [---] engagements

"In [----] Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved [--] miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased [--] acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue"
X Link 2026-01-13T19:05Z 1.1M followers, [---] engagements

""The Queen of Gospel" Mahalia Jackson died on this day in [----]. Rest In Power"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 232.6K engagements

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 97.5K engagements

"Malik Ambar the Ethiopian who ruled in India as prime minister in the late 1500s. Born in the late 16th century in what is now Ethiopia Malik Ambar was captured as a child and sold through the Indian Ocean slave trade. He was taken to India where Africansoften referred to as Habshis or Sidiswere commonly recruited into military service. After gaining his freedom Malik Ambar distinguished himself through intelligence discipline and leadership. By around [----] he had risen to become the prime minister and regent of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate effectively ruling the state on behalf of its young"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:06Z 1.1M followers, 99K engagements

"Gert Schramm aged [--] was arrested and imprisoned in Nazi Germany for the 'crime' of being Mixed Race. He was the only Black prisoner at Buchenwald. A THREAD"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 98.8K engagements

"After the war Schramm returned to Bad Langensalza worked in mining and engineering and later founded a taxi company. He became an anti-racism activist sharing his story widely"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 10.8K engagements

"100 years ago thirteen black men put together their savings and founded Safe Bus Company making it the largest black owned bus company at that time. It was formed in Winston-Salem to serve the black neighborhoods due to segregation and operated till [----]. Thirteen Black men pooled their life savings to purchase $100000 in stock forming Safe Bus Co. Inc. on May [--] [----]. The company quickly grew into the largest African Americanowned bus company in the nation. Safe Bus expanded rapidly and was once described as the largest Black-owned transportation company in the world. By [----] the company"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 41.6K engagements

"Civil Rights activist Gloria Richardson with the greatest Boy Bye as she removes the rifle of a National Guardsman from her way during a [----] Civil Rights Protest"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 36K engagements

""In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist." Angela Davis"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:45Z 1.1M followers, 129.4K engagements

"Cetshwayo King of the Zulu who defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana [----]. Cetshwayo is best known for leading the Zulu Kingdom during one of the most significant African victories against a European imperial power. In [----] under his reign Zulu forces decisively defeated the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana inflicting one of the worst defeats ever suffered by Britain against an Indigenous army armed primarily with spears and shields. This was not an accident or a fluke. The Zulu military system was highly organized disciplined and strategically sophisticatedbuilt on"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 36.5K engagements

"This timeline is worth revisitingoften. American slavery lasted nearly [---] years. When it ended in [----] freedom did not immediately translate into equal rights. What followed was almost [--] years of segregation enforced through laws and social systems that shaped daily life across generations. Segregation was not fully dismantled until the mid-1950s. This matters because history doesnt exist in isolation. The effects of long-standing systems dont disappear overnight. There are people alive today whose parents and grandparents lived through segregation making this history far closer than it"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 57K engagements

"Civil rights activist reacts to food after finally being served at White Only" restaurant"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:01Z 1.1M followers, 338.3K engagements

"This image brings together six women who played major roles in Black liberation community organizing and political education during the 1960s and 1970s. Angela Davis Kathleen Cleaver Denise Velez Afeni Shakur Assata Shakur and Elaine Brown were central figures in movements focused on racial justice political self-determination and community survival. Their work included organizing grassroots programs developing political education addressing police violence advocating for prisoners rights and building mutual aid initiatives. Many of these efforts were foundational to broader civil rights and"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 75.7K engagements

""I feel safe in the midst of my enemies for the truth is all powerful and will prevail." Sojourner Truth"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 23.7K engagements

"Would you sit with the strategist the revolutionary the scholar the freedom fighter the orator or the visionary Each of these men shaped movements that reshaped nations. Some challenged empires. Some built institutions. Some changed how we think about identity justice power and liberation"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 22K engagements

"Charles Orren Bailiff invented the shampoo headrest. He received the patent for it in [----]. Remember his name the next time youre getting a wash at the salon"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 34K engagements

"Queen Nzinga was one of the most formidable rulers in 17th-century Africa. Queen of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms (in present-day Angola) Nzinga Mbande became one of the strongest opponents of Portuguese expansion into Central Africa. In [----] she first appeared on the political stage when her brother the Ngola (king) of Ndongo sent her to negotiate with the Portuguese governor in Luanda. Determined to establish equality in diplomacy Nzinga famously refused to sit on the floor before the Portuguese representative. Instead she had one of her attendants kneel so she could sit at eye level with"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 14.8K engagements

"Some Men's hairstyles during pre-colonial Africa. Long before colonial borders were drawn and long before European influence reshaped much of the continent African societies had highly developed cultural systems including distinct traditions of grooming hair design and identity. Across various regions of Africa hairstyles were not simply aesthetic choices. They often communicated age marital status spiritual beliefs clan affiliation rank or warrior status. In many societies hair was considered sacred a connection between the individual and the spiritual world. From intricate braiding patterns"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 26.2K engagements

"On this day in [----] Andrew "Rube" Foster organized the first Black-American baseball league the Negro National League in Kansas City"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 33.5K engagements

"Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille in front of the Sphinx Egypt 1961"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements

""The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." Eldridge Cleaver"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 23.8K engagements

"Kwame Nkrumah about to lay a wreath at a special memorial service in honour of late Patrice Lumumba in Accra on February [--] [----]. Just weeks earlier Lumumba had been killed during a period of intense political crisis following Congos independence from Belgium in [----]. His death sent shockwaves across Africa and the wider world. For many newly independent African nations Lumumba symbolized sovereignty unity and the right of African countries to determine their own political and economic futures. Kwame Nkrumah Ghanas first President and a leading advocate of Pan-African unity viewed Lumumbas"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:45Z 1.1M followers, 40.8K engagements

"3 messengers [--] murders [--] wives widowed. "you can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.""
X Link 2026-02-14T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 36.6K engagements

"In [----] Missouri banned education for black people. John Berry Meachum went ahead and equipped a steamboat with a library desks chairs and opened a 'Floating Freedom School'. A THREAD"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 47.5K engagements

"Unfortunately this was right around the time that St. Louis enacted an ordinance banning the education of free black people"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Meachum was forced to disband the Candle Tallow School but later he outfitted a steamboat with a library desks and chairs and opened the Floating Freedom School in the middle of the Mississippi outside the reach of Missouri officials"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Dangerfield Newby is the actual man on which the movie DJango Unchained is loosely based. He was a member of the John Brown raiders. He joined the gang to save his wife Harriet and children from slavery. Dangerfield Newby (1815 October [--] 1859) was the oldest of John Brown's raiders one of five black raiders and the first of his men to die at Harpers Ferry Virginia. Born into slavery in Fauquier County Virginia Newby married a woman also enslaved. Newby's father was Henry Newby a landowner in Fauquier County. His mother was Elsey Newby who was a slave owned not by Henry but by a neighbor John"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 62.6K engagements

"I keep my work backed up off X here with reader support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AfricanArchives https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AfricanArchives"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"John Mercer Langston was the first black lawyer in Ohio the first Dean of Howard Universitys law school and assisted in drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1875"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 17.4K engagements

"Couple during war time taking a photo circa 1940s"
X Link 2026-02-16T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 15.5K engagements

"34 years ago today Latasha Harlins15 was fatally shot by a Korean shop owner Soon Ja Du over a bottle of orange juice it became a major spark for the [----] Los Angeles Riots. thread"
X Link 2025-03-17T03:18Z 1.1M followers, 12.8M engagements

"In [----] over [---] enslaved Africans were thrown overboard and drowned so that the slavers could cash in on the insurance of those enslaved. The Zong Massacre THREAD"
X Link 2025-12-18T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1.8M engagements

"Amilcar Cabral led the war against Portuguese colonial rule and led his country Guinea-Bissau to independence. He was later assassinated by Portuguese secret police today in [----]. Anti-colonial socialist revolutionary and freedom fighter Amilcar Cabral led the fight to overthrow Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde contributing to the end of Portugals fascist dictatorship. Cabral went on to become one of Africas most influential communist pan-African revolutionaries. The colonies of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde were governed by a fascist dictatorship in Lisbon long after"
X Link 2026-01-12T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 35.8K engagements

"Three Women in Marshall Texas 1899"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 91.4K engagements

"Emperor Menelik II. The man who defeated the Italians making Ethiopia the only African country successful to resist European colonization. It served notice that Africa was not just there for the taking. In the late 19th century as European powers carved up Africa during the so-called Scramble for Africa Ethiopia became a prime target. Italy sought to turn the country into a colony using treaties written in European languages to claim authority over Ethiopian sovereignty. Menelik II recognized the threat earlyand prepared accordingly. Rather than isolating Ethiopia Menelik modernized it. He"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 42.9K engagements

"This image highlights two historical realities that are essential to understanding how the United States was formed. Before European colonization Indigenous peoples lived on governed and maintained these lands for generations. As the nation expanded Native communities were pushed off their territories through war forced removal and treaties that were frequently violated. The loss of land culture and autonomy had lasting consequences that continue to affect Native nations today. At the same time millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands through the transatlantic slave"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 21.9K engagements

"On this day in [----] Bernard Harris became the first Black American astronaut to walk in space"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 40.6K engagements

"On this day in [----] four little girls: Denise McNair(11) Carole Robertson(14)Addie Mae Collins(14) and Cynthia Dianne Wesley(14) were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The bomber was found not guilty of murder"
X Link 2025-09-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements

"No other race is told to forget their history"
X Link 2025-10-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements

"246 years of slavery 1619-1865 [--] years of Jim Crow Laws 1865-1964 [--] years of lynching 1882-1986 [--] years of Civil Rights fight 1954-1968 Police Brutality -To Date"
X Link 2025-12-22T18:30Z 1.1M followers, 176.9K engagements

"Three men of 'The Windrush Generation' migrants from the Caribbean arrive on UK shores [----]. The 'Windrush' generation were those people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between [----] and 1973"
X Link 2026-01-03T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 38.1K engagements

"Eartha Kitt talks about love and compromise 1982"
X Link 2026-01-13T15:49Z 1.1M followers, 224.1K engagements

"Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day"
X Link 2026-01-19T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 402K engagements

"Did you know Martin Luther King Jr's Mother and his Brother were also murdered Martin Luther Kings mother Alberta King was assassinated while in church. [--] years after her son was gunned down in Memphis. Alfred Daniel King brother to MLK mysteriously died in a swimming pool [--] months after his brothers assassination. #BlackHistoryMonth https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018384000071483530 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018384000071483530"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 146.8K engagements

"You can kill a revolutionary but you cant kill the revolution. Fred Hampton"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:30Z 1.1M followers, 100.2K engagements

"If youre not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed. Malcolm X"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:01Z 1.1M followers, 77.8K engagements

"some iconic precolonial african women hairstyles. Before colonization tried to flatten African identity African women wore history on their heads. These precolonial hairstyles were not created for fashion alone. They were systems of knowledge visual languages that communicated lineage community spirituality age marital status and social responsibility. Hair functioned as a map a message and a mirror of the society that shaped it. Across the continent African women developed intricate techniques that required time patience and mastery. Some styles took hours others days sometimes weeks to"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 38.2K engagements

"When people hear the Black Panther Party most think only of armed patrols and confrontations with police. That image is incomplete. Whats often left out is the work they did at the community level. The Panthers created survival programs to address basic needs that government institutions ignored in Black neighborhoods. They operated free medical clinics that provided testing and treatment when hospitals were inaccessible or discriminatory. They ran the Free Breakfast Program feeding tens of thousands of children before school so hunger wouldnt interfere with learning. They organized free"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:01Z 1.1M followers, 22.1K engagements

"On this day in [----] Leroy "Satchel" Paige became the first Negro League veteran to be nominated to the Baseball Hall of Fame"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 32.2K engagements

"Young Black American boys on a chain gang in [----]. This is around [--] years after the "end" of slavery. These boys are all in a forced labor camp working for free arrested for "loitering" & "vagrancy" "speaking loudly to a white woman or such petty crimes"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 76K engagements

"When Franklin Joined Charlie Brown In [----] It Turned A Simple Comic Strip Into A Civil Rights Milestone. When Franklin joined Charlie Brown in [----] it quietly turned a beloved comic strip into a civil rights milestone. Franklin was introduced to Peanuts at the height of the Civil Rights Movement just weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of the first Black characters to regularly appear in a mainstream American comic without being reduced to stereotypes. Created by Charles M. Schulz Franklin wasnt written as a lesson or a punchline. He was simply a kid polite"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 40.6K engagements

"Jesse Owens in London after winning four gold medals at the [----] Olympics"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 191.7K engagements

"Join my book club on my Subscription List to discuss Black History and African history Books📚 Its for anyone who enjoys thoughtful reading and conversation"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:37Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Virginia in [----] but by the age of [--] he had earned enough money doing carpentry work to purchase his own freedom and then his fathers"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Meachum was a married man but before he could save up enough to buy his wifes freedom she was moved to St. Louis. He followed her here and eventually managed to purchase her freedom as well"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"While he was here in St. Louis Meachum met a white Baptist minister named John Mason Peck who asked for his help in creating a worship space for black people. Together they organized a Sunday school and religious services for slaves and free black people in the area and in"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

"Through the Church Meachum and Peck also offered secular education to black St. Louisans. Up to [---] people received schooling through First African Baptist Church which charged a monthly tuition fee of one dollar but never turned anyone away for being unable to pay"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:00Z 1.1M followers, [---] engagements

"Abolitionist Frederick Douglass chose to commemorate his birthday on this day 14th February"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:31Z 1.1M followers, 18.1K engagements

"Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso was one of the few African Presidents to support women empowerment. Comrades there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women.May my eyes never see & my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:04Z 1.1M followers, 141.5K engagements

"Barack Obama became the first Black president of the United States a moment that carried meaning far beyond politics. For many it symbolized generations of struggle persistence and possibility finally breaking through one of the highest barriers in global power. Whether people supported his policies or not his presidency marked a turning point in how leadership in America could look and who young people everywhere could imagine themselves becoming. History isnt just about the past. Its about what doors were opened and what futures became easier to imagine"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:30Z 1.1M followers, 33.1K engagements

"Join my book club through my Subscription List to read and discuss Black History and African history books 📚 Its a space for anyone who enjoys thoughtful reading and meaningful conversation"
X Link 2026-02-16T23:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

""Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." Dr. Mae Jemison first Black American female astronaut"
X Link 2026-02-17T03:00Z 1.1M followers, 28K engagements

"Sally Hemings the woman Thomas Jefferson enslaved. She was called his "mistress" but how can you be a mistress when you were enslaved a child and could not consent Had absolutely no choice A THREAD"
X Link 2023-03-03T22:35Z 1.1M followers, 3.7M engagements

"On this day in [----] [--] black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire. [--] burnt to death while [--] managed to escape. A THREAD"
X Link 2023-03-05T17:04Z 1.1M followers, 23.8M engagements

"Benjamin Banneker a Black mathematician and astronomer helped plan Washington D.C. Benjamin Banneker (17311806) was a self-taught mathematician astronomer and surveyor who played a role in the early planning of the United States capital. In [----] he assisted Major Andrew Ellicott the lead surveyor appointed by President George Washington in surveying the land that would become Washington D.C. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016934716365025603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016934716365025603"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 13.7K engagements

"A Black American family pose for Photo 1904"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 160.5K engagements

"A young girl in a school for black civil rights activists being trained to not react to hair being pulled and smoke blown in her face [----]. In [----] young civil rights activists were trained to endure abuse without reacting. many of them teenagers and childrenwere taught how to remain calm while facing physical and verbal harassment. The goal was preparation for sit-ins marches and protests where hostility was expected. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019878835353727056 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019878835353727056"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 91.2K engagements

"Lonnie Johnson NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun 1980s. #BlackHistoryMonth"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 46.6K engagements

"In [----] a 19-year-old Black jockey named Oliver Lewis made history in the Kentucky Derbythen quietly disappeared. Lewis became the first jockey to ever win the Kentucky Derby Americas longest-running sporting event. At the time the race was watched by [-----] spectators and held at the Louisville Jockey Club now known as Churchill Downs. What makes his victory even more striking is that he wasnt supposed to win. Lewis rode Aristide one of two horses entered by the same owner. The favored horse Chesapeake was expected to take the prize. Lewis was reportedly instructed to set the pace and tire"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:15Z 1.1M followers, 61.4K engagements

""a child cannot be taught by anyone that despises him." James Baldwin"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:05Z 1.1M followers, 98.6K engagements

"It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:30Z 1.1M followers, 62.6K engagements

"For all those who love baking but want the task to be made easy as possible. Anna M. Mangin foresaw your needs. She invented the pastry fork in [----]. In [----] Anna M. Mangin invented the pastry fork a simple but practical kitchen tool designed to mix pie crusts cookies butter and flour without having to knead everything by hand. She was granted U.S. Patent No. [------] on March [--] [----]. At a time when few women and even fewer Black women were recognized for their inventions Mangin created a tool that reduced the physical strain of mixing and mashing. The pastry fork could also be used to beat"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 61.4K engagements

"Muhammad Ali On Why Everything is White"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 50.9K engagements

"How William O'Neal FBI informant infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton Read https://buymeacoffee.com/africanarchives/how-william-o-neal-fbi-informant-infiltrated-black-panthers-set-fred-hampton https://buymeacoffee.com/africanarchives/how-william-o-neal-fbi-informant-infiltrated-black-panthers-set-fred-hampton"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:00Z 1.1M followers, 20.9K engagements

"On this day in [----] singer jazz pianist and actor Nathaniel Adams Coles aka Nat King Cole died from Lung Cancer. He was [--]. He played the piano had a Jazz trio hosted one of the first Black variety shows acted was on Broadway and sold over [--] million records. A LEGEND"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:57Z 1.1M followers, 47.6K engagements

"Mary Beatrice Kenner apart from changing the world of feminine care with the invention of the sanitary belt the forerunner of sanitary pads she also invented the Tissue Holder in 1982"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 37.2K engagements

"Carlota Lucumi: The Yoruba woman who led one of Cuba's Revolts in [----]. Carlota Lucum also known as La Negra Carlota was an African-born enslaved woman in Cuba of Yoruba (Lucum) origin who became one of the most important female figures in the history of resistance to slavery in the Americas. She lived and labored on the Triunvirato sugar plantation in Matanzas a region that by the mid-19th century had become one of the most brutal centers of plantation slavery in Cuba. Enslaved Africans there endured extreme violence forced labor family separation and constant surveillance. Yet Matanzas was"
X Link 2026-02-17T11:00Z 1.1M followers, [----] engagements

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