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# ![@AfricanArchives Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::808806102.png) @AfricanArchives AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY posts on X about united states, south african, south africa, mali the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[united states](/topic/united-states) 0.89%, [south african](/topic/south-african) #116, [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #977, [mali](/topic/mali) 0.35%, [madagascar](/topic/madagascar) #426, [zulu](/topic/zulu) 0.35%, [lds](/topic/lds) 0.35%, [south carolina](/topic/south-carolina) #7, [morgan](/topic/morgan) 0.18%, [signals](/topic/signals) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::808806102/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"A man rides a bus in Durban meant for white passengers only in resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975509034640822683) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.7M engagements


"On this day in 1914 Garrett T Morgan patented his invention the Gas Mask. His invention saved countless lives. He also invented the automated electric traffic light signals 🚦 an improved sewing machine and a hair-straightening product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977713538543014111) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T12:30Z 1.1M followers, 130.3K engagements


"Difference Between How The East and The West Depicted Black People in Animation History"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1945129979320152074) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-07-15T14:35Z 1.1M followers, 5.3M engagements


"Africans around the world fought in both World Wars only to return home to colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean and Jim Crow in America. Throughout history weve been enlisted to fights and die in wars instigated by our oppressors; wars which had nothing to do with us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1968389630673227819) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-17T19:00Z 1.1M followers, 41.1K engagements


"The House Negro Malcolm X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976294077441397234) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 152.4K engagements


"John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War X earned XX degrees and practiced law until he was XXX years old. He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. John Morton-Finney (June XX 1889 - January XX 1998) was an American civil rights activist lawyer and educator who earned XX academic degrees including X law degrees. He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment better known as the Buffalo soldiers and with the American Expeditionary Forces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977117120975478795) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 101K engagements


"Notwithstanding the social services the FBI declared the group a communist organization and an enemy of the government. The measures employed were so extreme that years later when they were revealed the director of the FBI publicly apologized for wrongful uses of power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978521457652052226) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 7839 engagements


"Martin Lawrence on Star Search 1987"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978611957683913140) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T00:00Z 1.1M followers, 24.9K engagements


"In 1967 the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia striking down laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978779047069925377) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T11:04Z 1.1M followers, 51.9K engagements


"Others have stated that the term comes from the earliest settlers of the region being a tribe called the 'Nuba' or ' Noba'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626083287343116) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1401 engagements


"Did you know Cornrows were used to help enslaved people escape slavery They used cornrows to create maps to leave plantations. Its most documented in Colombia where Benkos Bioho came up with the idea to have women create maps & deliver messages through cornrows. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1961847725906907428) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-30T17:45Z 1.1M followers, 254.8K engagements


"The Slave Bible How The Bible was Selectively Edited to Instill Obedience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1964335277700501860) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 60.2K engagements


"Philip Downing patented his invention the street letter box the predecessor of todays mailbox in 1891. 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 XX 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is the predecessor of today's mailbox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1971906768151199853) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-27T11:56Z 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements


"The Battle of Bamber Bridge 1943. Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil. US military authorities demanded the towns pubs impose a colour bar the local landlords responded with signs that read Black Troops Only which pissed them off. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974540376078745648) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T18:21Z 1.1M followers, 80.4K engagements


"In 1944 The United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman the first Liberty ship ever named for a Black woman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975305174764650881) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 50.6K engagements


"The Mali kingdom at one point accounted for half of the world's gold supply; and housed over a million manuscripts so you could argue academia in the continent really began here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626069802729935) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1614 engagements


"THE KINGDOM OF KUSH Kush was a part of Nubia ancient Nubian cultures were sophisticated and cosmopolitan as the region served as a major trading center for goods from the African interior Arabian desert and Mediterranean basin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626077088129120) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1707 engagements


"THE KINGDOM OF WAGADU (GHANA) This kingdom was an important stop along the trans-Saharan trade route which connected African societies in the Sahel to the markets found along the coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea and the trans-Saharan gold trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626091835375927) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 1942 engagements


"He commanded 4700 highly-trained soldiers equipped with the latest Martini-Henry rifles assisted by armed colonial volunteers and many field guns of the Royal Artillery. He attacked the kingdom on three fronts expecting an easy victory and national fame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978159250263154931) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 1.1M followers, XXX 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1935759602659852735) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-06-19T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 385.3K engagements


"Two wealthy women of Madagascar 1900s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1958476792580264183) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-21T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 164.9K engagements


"Former Sharecroppers Talk About Life On The Field And Picking Cotton 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1963611532308221958) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-04T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 8M engagements


"Did you know The real Betty Boop was inspired by a Black Harlem jazz singer named Esther Jones. Ever heard of Baby Esther She later sued the cartoonist but the court threw out the case and she was never compensated A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1966924954361868752) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-13T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 228.6K engagements


"Lonnie Johnson NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun. He turns XX today. Happy Birthday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975263641948627021) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements


"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James Baldwin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975754719277560164) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T02:46Z 1.1M followers, 147.4K engagements


"63 years ago today Uganda was proclaimed independent from the British with Milton Obote as the first prime minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976233680868634685) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 18.8K engagements


"On this day in 1806 Benjamin Banneker died. In 1753 he created the first functioning clock in the U.S entirely out of wood it was so advanced it kept accurate time for over XX years. During his funeral all his belongings including the clock were destroyed in a mysterious house fire. He also helped survey and design Washington D.C. Benjamin Banneker. A Mathematician and astronomer who planned all the construction of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. Benjamin Banneker is known for The first African American To create a scientific book an almanac published in 1791. Bannekers book contained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976350806086422975) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 90.9K engagements


"A lone Black man attends a Klan rally in Jackson Mississippi 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976392337765913039) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 151.3K engagements


"In Louisiana black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state At XX years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977075569037566394) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 194.9K engagements


"Godfather and godmother of Rock N Roll Chuck Berry and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Chuck Berry once said his entire career was "one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977479739112624158) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T21:01Z 1.1M followers, 58.2K engagements


"On this day in 1964 Martin Luther King Jr became the youngest man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize at that time. He later donated the prize money of $54123 to furthering the civil rights movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978053287162106061) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 56.1K engagements


"History books say slaves were brought to America but no one ever asked the free Africans if they wanted to leave their homeland. They were stolen shackled crammed head-to-toe in slave ships traded for goods or sold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978083722852192583) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T13:01Z 1.1M followers, 35K engagements


"Facing him on the vast baking-hot plain at Isandlwana was a Zulu army of 350000 warriors wielding deadly spears and an assortment of ancient muzzle-loading firearms divided into XX regiments of which XX were made of married men and XX of unmarried ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978159255854158115) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 1010 engagements


"I Too BY LANGSTON HUGHES I too sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes But I laugh And eat well And grow strong. Tomorrow Ill be at the table When company comes. Nobodyll dare Say to me Eat in the kitchen Then. Besides Theyll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed I too am America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978204288884019561) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 91.4K engagements


"Africas wealth was stolen for centuries now they call it foreign aid when they return XXX% of it. Africa's stolen wealth was used to stimulate the economies of many Western nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978468610348658917) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 39.7K engagements


"On this day In 1966 The Black Panther Party for Self Defence was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally founded to fight police racism they were dedicated to liberating people from white supremacism and also fed the hungry and mentored youth. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978521364253249816) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 60.7K engagements


"30 Years Ago Today was the historic Million Man March in Washington D.C. It was a day of Atonement led by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. On October XX 1995 an estimated 850000 black American men from across the United States gathered together at the National Mall in Washington D.C. to rally in one of largest demonstrations in Washington history. This assembly of black men was organized and hosted by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who called for all able-bodied Black American men to come to the nations capital to address the ills of black communities and call for unity and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978796925852807172) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 41.4K engagements


"The players protested playing a game with Brigham Young University (BYU) because of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS ban on black men holding the priesthood in the church and other racial restrictions. Mormons believe black people are cursed with the mark of Cain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193286100230204) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1082 engagements


"In response a number of athletes of all races wore black armbands in support including the entire San Jose State Team. The protest of the Fourteen eventually sparked nationwide focus on LDS church practices and other protests by student athletes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193335039336646) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements


"Job Maseko a WW2 hero sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration due to his race. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979611032822669721) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-18T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 36.1K engagements


"Maseko was working as a delivery driver when he volunteered for service in the South African Native Military Corps during WWII (NMC). Later he was sent to the 2nd South African Infantry Division after finishing basic training in North Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979611041567764915) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-18T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 1139 engagements


"Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1714115335345864970) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2023-10-17T03:05Z 1.1M followers, 37.3M engagements


"Black Students Asked Why They Chose To Attend a HBCU 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1951652457236619651) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-02T14:33Z 1.1M followers, 101.1K engagements


"63 years ago today Jamaica gained its independence from British after over XXX years of slavery and exploitation. It remains as an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth and the King remains the Head of State. THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1953101369470021884) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 61.8K engagements


"Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1956725365642076367) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 2.4M engagements


"Queen Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the kingdom of Madagascar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1957021942864654402) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-17T10:09Z 1.1M followers, 81.3K engagements


"Portrait of a bisharin girl with braided hair beads and long tunic in Egypt 1910"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1958114415137493131) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-08-20T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 149K engagements


"Mother Daughter and Maid Johannesburg South Africa 1977"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1964277494648823841) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-06T10:40Z 1.1M followers, 6.9M engagements


"On this day in 1963 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](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1967596886702878809) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-15T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1.1M engagements


"A lady preparing gravy in the kitchen Missouri 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1971320414178529781) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-09-25T21:06Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements


"A photograph of Malcolm X's mother Louise Norton Little (1897-1989). Louise Little was a brilliant woman speaking multiple languages and for years along with her husband Earl Little a dedicated activist of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League). Louise Norton Little (1897-1989) was a Grenadian-born American activist and the mother of Malcolm X. Here are some key facts about her life. - Born in Grenada to a former slave from Nigeria and a Scotsman - Raised by her grandparents in Grenada - Immigrated to Canada in 1917 and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1973855643372024148) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-02T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 153.6K engagements


"No other race is told to forget their history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974119860964618351) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-03T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 6.8M engagements


"October X 1951 Henrietta Lacks dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of XX. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine cloning gene mapping in vitro fertilization & more. Henrietta Lacks was black woman who unknowingly was the source of cells (from her cancerous tumor) which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the 1st known human immortal cell line for medical research. The Diagnosis: On January XX 1951 Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974448274913276220) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 198.8K engagements


"Ray Charles Explaining Why He Wasn't Impressed With Elvis Presley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974482137983434755) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-04T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 145.9K engagements


"Slavery was Legal. Colonialism was Legal. Jim Crow was Legal. Apartheid was Legal. Legality is a matter of Power NOT Justice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1974897491595182580) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-05T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 888.8K engagements


"On this day in 1966 Botswana formerly Bechuanaland gained independence from Britain with Seretse Khama as its first president. This marked the establishment of a stable democratic state in Southern Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975142854155436136) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T10:15Z 1.1M followers, 30K engagements


"Happy Birthday to the late Great Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer. Nobodys free until everybodys free Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On June X 1963 Hamer was on her way back from Charleston South Carolina with other activists from a literacy workshop. Stopping in Winona Mississippi the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed. Once in jail Hamer and her colleagues were beaten savagely by the police almost to the point of death. Released on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975173053093925233) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 66.9K engagements


"The Nazis were not the only ones who operated concentration camps. Britain used them in South Africa and Kenya. In Kenya the camps were sites for random executions and Interrogation involved stuffing detainees mouth with mud and stomping their throats till they passed out. Before the British fought the Nazis they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War. These camps were built by British soldiers amid the Boer War during which the British rounded up Dutch Boers and native South Africans and locked them into cramped camps where they died off by the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975207042596888865) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-06T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 77.9K engagements


"Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe Americas and Asia. Some of the world's great civilisations such as Mali flourished in Africa. A THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975626035212288011) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-07T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 81.9K engagements


"Sarah Boone invented the modern ironing board streamlining the ironing process for women's clothing. Her patented design awarded in 1892 made her one of the first black women to receive a patent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975897822282080751) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 252.4K engagements


"The first and only black-owned automobile in history was the Patterson-Greenfield Automobile Company pioneered by Frederick Patterson and his father Charles R. Patterson. Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. His father Charles Rich Patterson created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company located in Greenfield Ohio. Beginning in 1865 the company built fashionable carriages. Frederick Patterson inherited the company upon the death of his father in 1910 and began building motorized vehicles. The first Patterson automobile the Patterson-Greenfield rolled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1975931828444733647) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-08T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 50.1K engagements


"In 1942 the Tuskegee Airmen became the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military and fought in World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen epitomized courage and heroism. 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976260220796961073) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-09T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 39.4K engagements


"Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. She was the first black woman employed as a mail carrier in the US and the second woman to work for the US Postal Service. Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895 Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman and only the second woman to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1976656580079673368) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-10T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 52.7K engagements


"Maya Angelou Speaks On The Difference Between Black Vs. White Womanhood 1973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977018852262527463) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-11T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 115.6K engagements


"On this day in 1932 Comedian actor writer social critic and activist Dick Gregory was born"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977347379452838317) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 64.7K engagements


"Thomas W. Stewart was a black inventor from Kalamazoo Michigan. He patented a new type of mop in 1893. His mop was special because the head could be replaced by unclamping the old mop head and clamping on a new one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977381342674338091) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-12T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 42.3K engagements


"we've come a long way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977746927706866075) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T14:43Z 1.1M followers, 229.7K engagements


"Rosa Ingram and her teen sons were sentenced to death in 1948 after they murdered a white neighbor who attempted to sexually assault their mother. Thanks to civil rights activists the story gained national press. They were later released on parole for being "model prisoners." In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram a sharecropper and widowed Mother of four boys was the center of one of the most-explosive capital punishment cases in history. In 1948 in a one-day trial Ingram and two of her teenage boys were sentenced to die by electric chair after an altercation with a White landowner in the state of Georgia."  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977800341459509382) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 133.2K engagements


"In 1960 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1977841876645421444) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-13T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 88.6K engagements


"is the sheep preaching hate when he says that im not going to let the wolf eat me anymore Denzel Washington speaking on Malcolm X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978106159929168340) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 112.6K engagements


"When the Zulu People of South Africa defeated the British A THREAD In 1879 the British army invaded the independent & previously friendly Zulu kingdom which had been founded by the formidable Nguni warrior Shaka Zulu in 1818"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978159225109876762) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 1.1M followers, 31.4K engagements


"38 years ago today Thomas Sankara a revolutionary African leader was assassinated by French imperialists. Rest In Power Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid. He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally Blaise Compaor supported by French imperialists As far as African leadership goes Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth. Here are some of his accomplishments ONLY X YEARS in power (1983-87): He vaccinated XXX million children against meningitis yellow fever and measles in a matter of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978415658992840822) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-15T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 95K engagements


"On this day in 1986 Desmond Tutu Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid. This global recognition boosted the international anti-apartheid movement and highlighted South Africas racial injustices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978770481596526785) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 25.8K engagements


"June XX 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. Loving v. Virginia XXX U.S. X (1967) was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.The case was brought by Mildred Loving a black woman and Richard Loving a white man who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which prohibited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978779051574579623) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T11:04Z 1.1M followers, 8690 engagements


"Interviewer asking Miles Davis if black musicians are genetically better than white musicians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978830922800669080) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 116.4K engagements


"57 years ago today Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute at the Olympics that outraged millions of white Americans. The was an act of protest by the U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. As they turned to face their flags and hear the American national anthem (The Star-Spangled Banner) they each raised a Black-gloved fist and kept them raised until the anthem had finished. Smith Carlos and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all wore human rights badges on their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978891269259632720) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T18:30Z 1.1M followers, 105.1K engagements


"On this day in 1901 Booker T. Washington became the first Black American to dine at the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt sparking controversy in the segregated South"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1978929045065641986) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-16T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 35.6K engagements


"Happy 68th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison She was the first black woman in space. She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 working on experiments including bone cell research. Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief general practice Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985-1987 when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times including as an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979159275088789701) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 525.3K engagements


"On this day in 1969 the Historic Wyoming Black XX Protests Began. XX black football players at the University of Wyoming were kicked off the team for trying to protest against Brigham Young University because of the Mormon Church ban on Black men in the priesthood THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193281654169637) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 54.4K engagements


"The Wyoming Cowboys had won three consecutive Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championships and they were considered as the best football team to ever play for the university in 1969"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193292467134873) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 1116 engagements


"First the UW Student Senate passed a resolution which said in part The actions of coach Eaton and the Board of Trustees were not only uncompromising but unjust and wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979193331692232716) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T14:30Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements


"In 1946 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 1942 at Fort Jackson in Columbia S.C and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February 1946 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 XX to travel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979249909845852466) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T18:15Z 1.1M followers, 273.4K engagements


"Photo taken over XX years ago and were still dealing with the same struggles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979291439126184210) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-17T21:00Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements


"On this day in 1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines a leader of the Haitian Revolution and later Emperor of Haiti was assassinated. He led armies to defeat France to become the first free colonial society. It was the greatest slave uprising since Spartacus. It was a powerful reminder that Black liberation Could be achieved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979495262130249997) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-18T10:30Z 1.1M followers, 49.8K engagements


"Happy birthday to the Father of Rock N' Roll the legendary Chuck Berry He would have been XX today Chuck Berry is perhaps the defining musician of the early rock & roll era the one figure responsible for the music's sound style and sensibility that created the blueprint for the generations that followed. A guitarist who wanted to play like T-Bone Walker and croon like Nat King Cole Berry married these two styles to a swinging beat that spliced jump blues with juke joint R&B and hillbilly boogie -- a blend that arrived nearly fully realized with his 1955 debut single "Maybellene" a record that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979517920972509236) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-18T12:00Z 1.1M followers, 40K engagements


"Due to South African race regulations at the time they were unable to carry firearms. They were only allowed traditional weapons such as spears for guard and ceremonial duty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1979611051806060594) [@AfricanArchives](/creator/x/AfricanArchives) 2025-10-18T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 1057 engagements