[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @AfricanArchives AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY posts on X about congo, women, united states, shoes the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and 2168 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +85% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +29% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/posts_active)  - X Months XXX +4.60% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.22% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.63% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.90% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +4.10% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [musicians](/list/musicians) [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [nhl](/list/nhl) **Social topic influence** [congo](/topic/congo) #90, [women](/topic/women) #1950, [united states](/topic/united-states), [shoes](/topic/shoes), [malik](/topic/malik), [money](/topic/money), [cuba](/topic/cuba), [decent](/topic/decent), [land of](/topic/land-of), [marshall](/topic/marshall) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Oseola McCarty was a Mississippi philanthropist who donated most of her life savings $150000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to provide scholarships for African American students in need. A seamstress and washerwoman who was paid mostly in dollar bills and loose change her entire life McCarty was praised for her generosity and received many awards including an honorary degree from the university. McCarty was born on March X 1908 in Shubuta Mississippi. McCarty was born on March X 1908 in Shubuta Mississippi. She was raised in nearby Hattiesburg by her aunt and grandmother both of"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946993627621646779) 2025-07-20 18:00:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 134.3K engagements "To this day the Congo is still the property of the Europeans and has been held in constant conflict by European powers trying to seize their wealth while keeping the citizens divided"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623750369091899) 2025-07-19 17:30:43 UTC 1.1M followers, 21.3K engagements "Happy 77th birthday to Revolutionary Assata Shakur In 1979 she escaped from U.S prison later received asylum in Cuba. I saw this as a necessary step not only because I was innocent.but because I knew that in the racist legal system I would receive no justice A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906465425748025) 2025-07-17 18:00:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 522.5K engagements "How President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to stop Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony by impromptu Press Conference to Get Her off the air 1964"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946578272164499761) 2025-07-19 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 110K engagements "On this day in 1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela a revolutionary leader was born. Gone but not forgotten"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946185834928992279) 2025-07-18 12:30:36 UTC 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements "Difference Between How The East and The West Depicted Black People in Animation History"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945129979320152074) 2025-07-15 14:35:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 5.3M engagements "Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry He invented an automatic lasting machine that mechanized the complex process of joining a shoe sole leading to mass production of shoes. It cut shoe prices dramatically meaning more people could afford them"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1943679296553312280) 2025-07-11 14:30:30 UTC 1.1M followers, 33.7K engagements "Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. Is this America the land of the free and the home of the brave where our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. Hamer had arrived in Atlantic City on a bus from Mississippi with more than XX sharecroppers farmers housewives teachers maids deacons"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946590865671016564) 2025-07-19 15:20:02 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.7K engagements "if proper education was given to black and white people"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1944041558728184169) 2025-07-12 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 47.7K engagements "Diplomatic talks and pressure from many quarters would later lead Leopold II to renounce his rule over the Free State of the Congo and then hand it over to the Belgian Government and then the Congo to be named the Belgian Congo"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623747827400962) 2025-07-19 17:30:42 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.3K engagements "The burning of their villages was one of the painful accounts of the genocide of the Congolese. The commissioners and their officers also gave a certain quota to a whole village to fulfill and if they failed their villages and inhabitants were burnt down"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623744018923788) 2025-07-19 17:30:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.4K engagements "After the Berlin conference of 1884-1885 ( conference where European nations established the 'legal' claim that all of Africa could be occupied by whomever could take it) different European nations set out to mount their flags all over Africa"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623691300716625) 2025-07-19 17:30:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 18.2K engagements "On this day in 1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela a revolutionary leader was born. Gone but not forgotten"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946416773420450207) 2025-07-19 03:48:16 UTC 1.1M followers, 63.9K engagements "Henrietta Smith Bowers Duterte was the first female undertaker in the United States. She Used Coffins to Help Free Enslaved People. Henrietta was born free in Philadelphia Pa. in 1817. One of XX children she went on to become the first practicing female mortician in the United States if not in the entire world. As many African American women did in her day Duterte worked as her husband's partner ensuring that the business would survive were he to die before his time. As it turned out Henrietta who married Haitian-born coffin maker Francis Duterte when she was XX assumed complete control over"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947272977264828905) 2025-07-21 12:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 45.3K engagements "Young men pose in "zoot suits" taken from a formalwear shop during the Harlem riot of August 1943"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947401339543183481) 2025-07-21 21:00:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 58.7K engagements ""If you stick a knife in my back X inches and pull it out X 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"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1937518577373917296) 2025-06-24 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 215.3K engagements ""You Have Been Misinformed As Much As We've Been Misinformed.""  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1942593264072417480) 2025-07-08 14:35:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 143.1K engagements "When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1942924289201639679) 2025-07-09 12:30:22 UTC 1.1M followers, 219.7K engagements "The nations set out murdering africans and then taking their wealth to make Europe wealthier. King Leopold II set out for the Congo and declared it his territory proclaiming it his property the people and the land quickly turning the land into a money-making enterprise"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623693951574204) 2025-07-19 17:30:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 17.4K engagements "Dorothy Dandridge was a rising star in the 40s but her stardom was in the 1950s. Her first leading role was in "Bright Road" (1953) with Harry Belafonte. Her signature film was "Carmen Jones" (1954) where she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actresses"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945186998769123794) 2025-07-15 18:21:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 4093 engagements "A Civil Wr Veteran poses with his grandchildren 1900"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945696201640202648) 2025-07-17 04:04:58 UTC 1.1M followers, 195.6K engagements "Inventions that would not exist without Black Women. A THREAD Valerie Thomas NASA physicist invented 3D Movies In 1977 she began to develop the illusion transmitter the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1942652533190566144) 2025-07-08 18:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 194.7K engagements "Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President. Kenya gained indepedence in 1963"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945853724032684406) 2025-07-17 14:30:54 UTC 1.1M followers, 8640 engagements "On this day in 1941 the First U.S. Army flying school for Black cadets dedicated at Tuskegee Alabama. The first unit the 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated at Chanute Field in Rantoul Illinois on March XX 1941 nine months before the United States officially entered World War II. Over the past seven decades the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen have been celebrated occasionally mythologized and used as a recent reminder of the patriotism and heroism of African Americans in times of national crisis. Mounting pressure by black leaders such as union activist A Philip Randolph NAACP chief executive"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946548210064884192) 2025-07-19 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 34.9K engagements "Two black students are harassed by classmates on their way to school Little Rock Arkansas (1957)"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947763976923652575) 2025-07-22 21:01:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 31.7K engagements "In order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946215887499088254) 2025-07-18 14:30:01 UTC 1.1M followers, 34.6K engagements "On this day in 1944 Lieutenant and baseball legend Jackie Robinson boarded an Army bus and refused to sit at the back of the bus because of his race. This led to a court martial & he was prohibited from being deployed overseas thus he never saw combat action. THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1942229700740362272) 2025-07-07 14:30:20 UTC 1.1M followers, 96.2K engagements "11 years ago today Eric Garner XX was executed by the NYPD. His final words "I Can't Breathe.""  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945830979056148973) 2025-07-17 13:00:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 185.2K engagements "In 1898 Lyda A. Newman a black hairdresser patented a hair brush with synthetic bristles. It was specifically made for Black hair because the previous animal hair brushes were too soft. It also permitted easy cleaning because it had detachable units. Lyda D. Newman born in 1865 (no exact date known) was a patented inventor and involved activist for women's suffrage. She is known for the invention of the first synthetic hairbrush. Lyda spent the majority of her life living and working in New York City. Newman's primary occupation was hair care as she listed hair specialist or hairdresser in"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947635362458689562) 2025-07-22 12:30:30 UTC 1.1M followers, 25.5K engagements "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. Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March XX 1915 October X 1973) was an innovative gospel singer widely recognized today as the godmother of rock and roll. Tharpe is the first known artist not only to use an electric guitar in gospel music but to give the instrument a melodic role as important as the voices role. During her musical bridges Tharpe would give free"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1938247186271105187) 2025-06-26 14:45:14 UTC 1.1M followers, 224.9K engagements "These are actresses from the 1950s. Hollywood started to adapt to the changing times and social narratives and Black actors were earning better roles than the stereotypical ones that plagued them in previous decades. A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945186971334127720) 2025-07-15 18:21:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 188.9K engagements "The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public. Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women who dressed too elegantly. Resembling todays West African Gele a tignon is a type of head-covering. It is a large piece of material wrapped or tied around the head to form a kind of turban concealing the hair. Tignons were worn by free and slave Creole women of African descent in Louisiana from 1786. Historically their prevalence was as a result"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945515021917692114) 2025-07-16 16:05:01 UTC 1.1M followers, 109.3K engagements "Who is Assata Shakur Assata Shakur also known as Joanne Chesimard was a black activist a member of the Black Liberation Army & the Black Panthers. She is the godmother of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906490788733204) 2025-07-17 18:00:35 UTC 1.1M followers, 17.5K engagements "51 years ago today Martin Luther Kings mother Alberta King was assassinated while in church. X years after her son was gunned down in Memphis. Alfred Daniel King brother to MLK mysteriously died in a swimming pool XX months after his brothers assassination"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1939692994598211981) 2025-06-30 14:30:22 UTC 1.1M followers, 364.2K engagements "On this day in 1899 XX year old Frank Embree was tortured castrated skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd for a crime he didnt commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants no one was ever arrested. A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947710876200394895) 2025-07-22 17:30:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 48.1K engagements "Sabrina Chebichi a Kenyan athlete who won a marathon in 1973 barefoot and wearing a dress"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946910600140849569) 2025-07-20 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 201K engagements "On this day in 1944 Irene Morgan refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Greyhound bus in Gloucester County VA. She was charged with violating Virginia Jim Crow laws. In 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor striking down Virginias law in Morgan v. Virginia case"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945461046984257702) 2025-07-16 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 96.5K engagements "Leopold II had an army which consisted of about 19000 european mercenaries called Publique Force. The military aggressively recruited Africans into its lower ranks as well. These Africans were press-ganged into service and they were executed if they resisted"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623720988049853) 2025-07-19 17:30:36 UTC 1.1M followers, 13.7K engagements "Sharecroppers Living On Eastland Mississippi Plantation Discussing How They Lived 1964"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1943316783160574062) 2025-07-10 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 138.6K engagements "Matzeliger was born in 1852. He was a black inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes. Born in Paramaribo Dutch Guiana now Suriname the son of a Dutch father and a black Surinamese mother Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of XX. After about six years settled in Lynn where he found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine. Working alone and at night for six months he produced a model in wood and on March XX 1883 received a patent. His invention"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1943679307378745589) 2025-07-11 14:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 9727 engagements "Later after they pulled over both Zayd Malik Shakur & Trooper Foerster were dead and Assata and Trooper Harper were shot and wounded. Assata and Sundiata ended up arrested and sentenced with murdering a state trooper"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906543427264634) 2025-07-17 18:00:47 UTC 1.1M followers, 14.5K engagements "A sundown or sunset town was a town city or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark. The term sundown came from the signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1943370779120304404) 2025-07-10 18:04:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 275.9K engagements "Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just XX years old. She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person. A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1941554024970424331) 2025-07-05 17:45:26 UTC 1.1M followers, 710K engagements "You can read more about this on 'Yellow Wife' a novel based on Mary Lumpkin"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1944093572657037671) 2025-07-12 17:56:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.9K engagements "On this day in 1943 The George Washington Carver National Monument the first monument for a Black American was dedicated"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1944766461500616810) 2025-07-14 14:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 53.8K engagements "On this day in 1975 Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win Wimbledon singles title. He was the first black man to win Wimbledon the US Open and the Australian Open"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1941474741308555537) 2025-07-05 12:30:23 UTC 1.1M followers, 181.4K engagements "White Rhodesian Students Sharing their thoughts on Black Zimbabwean Students Rhodesia Zimbabwe 1971"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946940660973556039) 2025-07-20 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 35.5K engagements "Dorothy Counts being jeered and taunted by her white peers. She was one of X Black students to integrate Charlotte NC schools in 1957. Due to violence from white students she left the school X days later"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945098635445784719) 2025-07-15 12:30:27 UTC 1.1M followers, 385.5K engagements "The first day of class after federal courts mandated busing to end de-facto segregation in Boston's public school system. Valerie Banks was the only student to show up for her geography class Boston Massachusetts September 1974"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946755801739071644) 2025-07-20 02:15:26 UTC 1.1M followers, 37.9K engagements "Did you know the desire to escape slavery was once classified as a mental illness called Drapetomania in 1851. Black people were considered mentally ill for refusing to live in bondage"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1943737401689420175) 2025-07-11 18:21:24 UTC 1.1M followers, 347.9K engagements "Black soldiers share their racism experience in Vietnam in the 1970s. It shows how the white supremacists taught the Vietnamese people to hate them"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1935706638045880577) 2025-06-19 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 374.1K engagements "On this day in 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black American Presidential nominee from one of the two major parties"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1944403946279489683) 2025-07-13 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 117.1K engagements "However this did not make the Belgians stop. For the commercial benefit of their resources they continued the slavery and enslavement of the people of the Congo"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623741284188171) 2025-07-19 17:30:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.8K engagements "Pearl Bailey first appeared in movies in the late 40s but her shining moment in film was in "Carmen Jones." Bailey was an excellent singer and actress appearing in four films during the 50s including "St. Louis Blues" (1958) and "Porgy & Bess" (1959)"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945187012375396363) 2025-07-15 18:21:38 UTC 1.1M followers, 3817 engagements "Watched the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the black pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes. After X days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart 1st Lieutenant James Harvey and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. The official results for first place were recorded as unknown for nearly XX years. There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1947310978388926909) 2025-07-21 15:01:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 65.3K engagements "In addition to the shooting and maiming disease was another factor that caused millions to die. The wellbeing of the workers was not taken into account by the Belgians who fed them with unhealthy meat and vegetables and starved them most of the time"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623738021130555) 2025-07-19 17:30:40 UTC 1.1M followers, 12.4K engagements "On May 2nd 1973 she was unfairly convicted of shooting and murdering State Trooper Werner Foester in New Jersey"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906514629214253) 2025-07-17 18:00:40 UTC 1.1M followers, 15.9K engagements "On this day in 1865 enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was XXX years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. #Juneteenth But Slavery continued A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1935759602659852735) 2025-06-19 18:00:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 364.1K engagements "Congo was rich in many minerals but at the time it was richer in ivory and rubber. He set up a system that was extremely harsh on the people a system that if they did not reach regular rubber collection quotas he murdered and mutilated the indigenous people"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623699160797365) 2025-07-19 17:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 16.8K 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 X million Jews.. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over XX million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others. A THREAD"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946623675479781468) 2025-07-19 17:30:25 UTC 1.1M followers, 529.7K engagements "Little kids in Harlem NYC April XX 1977. Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1946027764437356953) 2025-07-18 02:02:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 69.1K engagements "On that fateful morning Assata and her fellow Black Liberation Army (BLA) members Sundiata Acoli and Zayd Malik Shakur were stopped by NJ state troopers for a broken taillight that ended in a shootout"  [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906539107119595) 2025-07-17 18:00:46 UTC 1.1M followers, 15.8K engagements
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"Oseola McCarty was a Mississippi philanthropist who donated most of her life savings $150000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to provide scholarships for African American students in need. A seamstress and washerwoman who was paid mostly in dollar bills and loose change her entire life McCarty was praised for her generosity and received many awards including an honorary degree from the university. McCarty was born on March X 1908 in Shubuta Mississippi. McCarty was born on March X 1908 in Shubuta Mississippi. She was raised in nearby Hattiesburg by her aunt and grandmother both of"
@AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-20 18:00:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 134.3K engagements
"To this day the Congo is still the property of the Europeans and has been held in constant conflict by European powers trying to seize their wealth while keeping the citizens divided" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:43 UTC 1.1M followers, 21.3K engagements
"Happy 77th birthday to Revolutionary Assata Shakur In 1979 she escaped from U.S prison later received asylum in Cuba. I saw this as a necessary step not only because I was innocent.but because I knew that in the racist legal system I would receive no justice A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 18:00:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 522.5K engagements
"How President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to stop Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony by impromptu Press Conference to Get Her off the air 1964" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 110K engagements
"On this day in 1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela a revolutionary leader was born. Gone but not forgotten" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-18 12:30:36 UTC 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements
"Difference Between How The East and The West Depicted Black People in Animation History" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-15 14:35:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 5.3M engagements
"Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry He invented an automatic lasting machine that mechanized the complex process of joining a shoe sole leading to mass production of shoes. It cut shoe prices dramatically meaning more people could afford them" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-11 14:30:30 UTC 1.1M followers, 33.7K engagements
"Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. Is this America the land of the free and the home of the brave where our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. Hamer had arrived in Atlantic City on a bus from Mississippi with more than XX sharecroppers farmers housewives teachers maids deacons" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 15:20:02 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.7K engagements
"if proper education was given to black and white people" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-12 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 47.7K engagements
"Diplomatic talks and pressure from many quarters would later lead Leopold II to renounce his rule over the Free State of the Congo and then hand it over to the Belgian Government and then the Congo to be named the Belgian Congo" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:42 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.3K engagements
"The burning of their villages was one of the painful accounts of the genocide of the Congolese. The commissioners and their officers also gave a certain quota to a whole village to fulfill and if they failed their villages and inhabitants were burnt down" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.4K engagements
"After the Berlin conference of 1884-1885 ( conference where European nations established the 'legal' claim that all of Africa could be occupied by whomever could take it) different European nations set out to mount their flags all over Africa" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 18.2K engagements
"On this day in 1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela a revolutionary leader was born. Gone but not forgotten" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 03:48:16 UTC 1.1M followers, 63.9K engagements
"Henrietta Smith Bowers Duterte was the first female undertaker in the United States. She Used Coffins to Help Free Enslaved People. Henrietta was born free in Philadelphia Pa. in 1817. One of XX children she went on to become the first practicing female mortician in the United States if not in the entire world. As many African American women did in her day Duterte worked as her husband's partner ensuring that the business would survive were he to die before his time. As it turned out Henrietta who married Haitian-born coffin maker Francis Duterte when she was XX assumed complete control over" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-21 12:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 45.3K engagements
"Young men pose in "zoot suits" taken from a formalwear shop during the Harlem riot of August 1943" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-21 21:00:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 58.7K engagements
""If you stick a knife in my back X inches and pull it out X 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" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-06-24 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 215.3K engagements
""You Have Been Misinformed As Much As We've Been Misinformed."" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-08 14:35:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 143.1K engagements
"When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-09 12:30:22 UTC 1.1M followers, 219.7K engagements
"The nations set out murdering africans and then taking their wealth to make Europe wealthier. King Leopold II set out for the Congo and declared it his territory proclaiming it his property the people and the land quickly turning the land into a money-making enterprise" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 17.4K engagements
"Dorothy Dandridge was a rising star in the 40s but her stardom was in the 1950s. Her first leading role was in "Bright Road" (1953) with Harry Belafonte. Her signature film was "Carmen Jones" (1954) where she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actresses" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-15 18:21:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 4093 engagements
"A Civil Wr Veteran poses with his grandchildren 1900" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 04:04:58 UTC 1.1M followers, 195.6K engagements
"Inventions that would not exist without Black Women. A THREAD Valerie Thomas NASA physicist invented 3D Movies In 1977 she began to develop the illusion transmitter the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-08 18:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 194.7K engagements
"Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President. Kenya gained indepedence in 1963" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 14:30:54 UTC 1.1M followers, 8640 engagements
"On this day in 1941 the First U.S. Army flying school for Black cadets dedicated at Tuskegee Alabama. The first unit the 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated at Chanute Field in Rantoul Illinois on March XX 1941 nine months before the United States officially entered World War II. Over the past seven decades the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen have been celebrated occasionally mythologized and used as a recent reminder of the patriotism and heroism of African Americans in times of national crisis. Mounting pressure by black leaders such as union activist A Philip Randolph NAACP chief executive" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 34.9K engagements
"Two black students are harassed by classmates on their way to school Little Rock Arkansas (1957)" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-22 21:01:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 31.7K engagements
"In order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-18 14:30:01 UTC 1.1M followers, 34.6K engagements
"On this day in 1944 Lieutenant and baseball legend Jackie Robinson boarded an Army bus and refused to sit at the back of the bus because of his race. This led to a court martial & he was prohibited from being deployed overseas thus he never saw combat action. THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-07 14:30:20 UTC 1.1M followers, 96.2K engagements
"11 years ago today Eric Garner XX was executed by the NYPD. His final words "I Can't Breathe."" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 13:00:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 185.2K engagements
"In 1898 Lyda A. Newman a black hairdresser patented a hair brush with synthetic bristles. It was specifically made for Black hair because the previous animal hair brushes were too soft. It also permitted easy cleaning because it had detachable units. Lyda D. Newman born in 1865 (no exact date known) was a patented inventor and involved activist for women's suffrage. She is known for the invention of the first synthetic hairbrush. Lyda spent the majority of her life living and working in New York City. Newman's primary occupation was hair care as she listed hair specialist or hairdresser in" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-22 12:30:30 UTC 1.1M followers, 25.5K engagements
"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. Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March XX 1915 October X 1973) was an innovative gospel singer widely recognized today as the godmother of rock and roll. Tharpe is the first known artist not only to use an electric guitar in gospel music but to give the instrument a melodic role as important as the voices role. During her musical bridges Tharpe would give free" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-06-26 14:45:14 UTC 1.1M followers, 224.9K engagements
"These are actresses from the 1950s. Hollywood started to adapt to the changing times and social narratives and Black actors were earning better roles than the stereotypical ones that plagued them in previous decades. A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-15 18:21:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 188.9K engagements
"The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public. Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women who dressed too elegantly. Resembling todays West African Gele a tignon is a type of head-covering. It is a large piece of material wrapped or tied around the head to form a kind of turban concealing the hair. Tignons were worn by free and slave Creole women of African descent in Louisiana from 1786. Historically their prevalence was as a result" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-16 16:05:01 UTC 1.1M followers, 109.3K engagements
"Who is Assata Shakur Assata Shakur also known as Joanne Chesimard was a black activist a member of the Black Liberation Army & the Black Panthers. She is the godmother of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 18:00:35 UTC 1.1M followers, 17.5K engagements
"51 years ago today Martin Luther Kings mother Alberta King was assassinated while in church. X years after her son was gunned down in Memphis. Alfred Daniel King brother to MLK mysteriously died in a swimming pool XX months after his brothers assassination" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-06-30 14:30:22 UTC 1.1M followers, 364.2K engagements
"On this day in 1899 XX year old Frank Embree was tortured castrated skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd for a crime he didnt commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants no one was ever arrested. A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-22 17:30:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 48.1K engagements
"Sabrina Chebichi a Kenyan athlete who won a marathon in 1973 barefoot and wearing a dress" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-20 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 201K engagements
"On this day in 1944 Irene Morgan refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Greyhound bus in Gloucester County VA. She was charged with violating Virginia Jim Crow laws. In 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor striking down Virginias law in Morgan v. Virginia case" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-16 12:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 96.5K engagements
"Leopold II had an army which consisted of about 19000 european mercenaries called Publique Force. The military aggressively recruited Africans into its lower ranks as well. These Africans were press-ganged into service and they were executed if they resisted" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:36 UTC 1.1M followers, 13.7K engagements
"Sharecroppers Living On Eastland Mississippi Plantation Discussing How They Lived 1964" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-10 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 138.6K engagements
"Matzeliger was born in 1852. He was a black inventor best known for his shoe-lasting machine that mechanically shaped the upper portions of shoes. Born in Paramaribo Dutch Guiana now Suriname the son of a Dutch father and a black Surinamese mother Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of XX. After about six years settled in Lynn where he found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine. Working alone and at night for six months he produced a model in wood and on March XX 1883 received a patent. His invention" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-11 14:30:33 UTC 1.1M followers, 9727 engagements
"Later after they pulled over both Zayd Malik Shakur & Trooper Foerster were dead and Assata and Trooper Harper were shot and wounded. Assata and Sundiata ended up arrested and sentenced with murdering a state trooper" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 18:00:47 UTC 1.1M followers, 14.5K engagements
"A sundown or sunset town was a town city or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark. The term sundown came from the signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-10 18:04:34 UTC 1.1M followers, 275.9K engagements
"Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just XX years old. She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person. A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-05 17:45:26 UTC 1.1M followers, 710K engagements
"You can read more about this on 'Yellow Wife' a novel based on Mary Lumpkin" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-12 17:56:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.9K engagements
"On this day in 1943 The George Washington Carver National Monument the first monument for a Black American was dedicated" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-14 14:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 53.8K engagements
"On this day in 1975 Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win Wimbledon singles title. He was the first black man to win Wimbledon the US Open and the Australian Open" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-05 12:30:23 UTC 1.1M followers, 181.4K engagements
"White Rhodesian Students Sharing their thoughts on Black Zimbabwean Students Rhodesia Zimbabwe 1971" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-20 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 35.5K engagements
"Dorothy Counts being jeered and taunted by her white peers. She was one of X Black students to integrate Charlotte NC schools in 1957. Due to violence from white students she left the school X days later" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-15 12:30:27 UTC 1.1M followers, 385.5K engagements
"The first day of class after federal courts mandated busing to end de-facto segregation in Boston's public school system. Valerie Banks was the only student to show up for her geography class Boston Massachusetts September 1974" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-20 02:15:26 UTC 1.1M followers, 37.9K engagements
"Did you know the desire to escape slavery was once classified as a mental illness called Drapetomania in 1851. Black people were considered mentally ill for refusing to live in bondage" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-11 18:21:24 UTC 1.1M followers, 347.9K engagements
"Black soldiers share their racism experience in Vietnam in the 1970s. It shows how the white supremacists taught the Vietnamese people to hate them" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-06-19 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 374.1K engagements
"On this day in 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black American Presidential nominee from one of the two major parties" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-13 14:30:00 UTC 1.1M followers, 117.1K engagements
"However this did not make the Belgians stop. For the commercial benefit of their resources they continued the slavery and enslavement of the people of the Congo" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:41 UTC 1.1M followers, 11.8K engagements
"Pearl Bailey first appeared in movies in the late 40s but her shining moment in film was in "Carmen Jones." Bailey was an excellent singer and actress appearing in four films during the 50s including "St. Louis Blues" (1958) and "Porgy & Bess" (1959)" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-15 18:21:38 UTC 1.1M followers, 3817 engagements
"Watched the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the black pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes. After X days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart 1st Lieutenant James Harvey and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. The official results for first place were recorded as unknown for nearly XX years. There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-21 15:01:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 65.3K engagements
"In addition to the shooting and maiming disease was another factor that caused millions to die. The wellbeing of the workers was not taken into account by the Belgians who fed them with unhealthy meat and vegetables and starved them most of the time" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:40 UTC 1.1M followers, 12.4K engagements
"On May 2nd 1973 she was unfairly convicted of shooting and murdering State Trooper Werner Foester in New Jersey" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 18:00:40 UTC 1.1M followers, 15.9K engagements
"On this day in 1865 enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was XXX years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. #Juneteenth But Slavery continued A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-06-19 18:00:28 UTC 1.1M followers, 364.1K engagements
"Congo was rich in many minerals but at the time it was richer in ivory and rubber. He set up a system that was extremely harsh on the people a system that if they did not reach regular rubber collection quotas he murdered and mutilated the indigenous people" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:31 UTC 1.1M followers, 16.8K 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 X million Jews.. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over XX million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others. A THREAD" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-19 17:30:25 UTC 1.1M followers, 529.7K engagements
"Little kids in Harlem NYC April XX 1977. Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-18 02:02:29 UTC 1.1M followers, 69.1K engagements
"On that fateful morning Assata and her fellow Black Liberation Army (BLA) members Sundiata Acoli and Zayd Malik Shakur were stopped by NJ state troopers for a broken taillight that ended in a shootout" @AfricanArchives on X 2025-07-17 18:00:46 UTC 1.1M followers, 15.8K engagements