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11/06/2024
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11/04/2024

AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTORS - HENRY E. BAKER (1857-1928)
Born on September 1, 1857 in Columbus, Mississippi, Henry E. Baker was remarkable for being the first author to explore and record the work of African American inventors. He began his education at the United States Naval Academy in 1874 where he was only the third African American to enter the institution. During his time at the Naval Academy, Baker experienced discrimination as few cadets would have social interactions with him and instructors and supervisors refused to address him by name. His tenure was also compromised by hazing and damage to his personal property. In response to this treatment, he left the Academy and completed his education at the Ben-Hyde Benton School of Technology in Washington, D.C, graduating in 1879.
In 1881, the future chronicler then attended and graduated from the Howard University School of Law. During his time at Howard, Baker secured a job at the United States Patent Office where he worked as a copyist. When Baker noticed the lack of published information regarding African American inventors and innovators, he took the initiative and began to publicize their work. This became a passion project that would last a lifetime.
In 1902 Baker, now promoted to Second Assistant at the Patent Office, continued to his work to illuminate the little-known contributions of black inventors by sending letters to patent attorneys, newspapers, company executives, and others asking for the names of African American innovators. He sent out thousands of letters and as a result of his efforts recognized 1,200 little known inventors. Sadly, some African American inventors feared that once their identity was revealed, their sales and business would suffer. This caused the names of only 800 African American creators to be published.
After years of searching and compiling lists of inventors, Baker authored several publications. In 1902, Baker published The Negro as an Inventor. In 1913, Baker published The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years. The pamphlet was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Negro in the Field of Innovation followed four years later in 1917. Collectively, these books gave African American inventors the opportunity to showcase their contributions to society. Unfortunately, little is known about Baker’s life after he published the third book. Despite his withdrawal from public life, Baker had a tremendous impact on minority innovators by highlighting their creativity. Without his tireless work, the names of these inventors might not be known today.
Henry E. Baker died on April 27, 1928 in Washington, D.C. At the time of death, he was 70 years old and did not have a wife or children.

11/01/2024

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10/30/2024
10/27/2024
10/27/2024

Conquistadores Hernando de Pizarro and Sebastián de Benalcázar figure prominently in the history of Latin America, including of the conquest of Peru and present Nicaragua, Ecuador and Columbia. Both were active in the trafficking of Indigenous people, as reflected in documents that will be included in Native Bound Unbound.

In their encounter with Atahualpa Inka, both are illustrated in this drawing from Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.

10/25/2024

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
https://indigenoustore.com/poster
By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours for you to erase or destroy.🤩
Order today to own a poster that will warm your heart and celebrate the living heritage of Native American culture!
https://indigenoustore.com/poster

10/24/2024

Want to explore Whitney Plantation from the classroom or home? Our app offers an audio tour that brings the plantation's history to life. 📱

Just search "Whitney Plantation" in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and download the app to learn about the enslaved people who worked on this land from 1752 to 1865.

It’s the perfect way to understand this crucial chapter of American history, whenever and wherever you are. 🌿

10/22/2024

In 1795, Antoine Morin, a free person of color from St. Domingue (Haiti), taught Étienne de Boré the process of granulating cane syrup at his plantation, now the site of Tulane University and Audubon Park.

This sparked a boom for “white gold” along the Mississippi River, fueled by the forced labor of nearly 1 million enslaved African-descended people.

By the mid-19th century, Louisiana produced a quarter of the world's cane-sugar supply, making it one of the wealthiest states in the U.S.

This wealth, however, was built upon immense human suffering.

At Whitney Plantation, sugar mills operated around the clock from October to December, with cane being cut by day and processed by candlelight into the night.
The labor-intensive process relied on the dangerous and exhausting skilled labor of enslaved men, women, and children.

📷: Enslaved Peoples' Cabins and Sugarcane Boiling Kettles at Whitney Plantation (2021) by Carol M. Highsmith ()

10/22/2024

The Far Side Of The Day

10/20/2024

𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐣𝐨𝐬 - 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠

This is an invitation for descendants of 𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐣𝐨𝐬 and followers of Native Bound Unbound to participate in the first virtual gathering to discuss, learn, share, and honor her as one of our early colonial period grandmothers of Zuni origin, who became a matriarch and common female ancestor to innumerable descendants of New Mexican descent.

WHEN: Tuesday October 29, 2024 - 6 PM MDT to 7:30 PM MDT

WHERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88281095341?pwd=O0Re7mtiNtiePGbmqe6s2zcevSXgSC.1 or scan QR code

Presented and facilitated by Daria Celeste Landress

10/19/2024

Exciting news! This Indigenous People’s Day marks one year since we published our Turtle Island Decolonized map, created over 9 years with the help of hundreds of elders and language-keepers to accurately document Indigenous place names for major cities and historical sites across “North America”. You can now order a 19”x21” poster online for only $8 + shipping, thanks to The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island. Visit mapcenter.com/store/p/turtle-island-decolonized to get yours. The map is still free to download on our site: decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized.

12/09/2022

Interior today announced that the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names will hold its inaugural public meeting on December 7 and 8.

08/09/2022
08/05/2022

On 4th August 1958 at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Ebbw Vale, Paul Robeson delivered an address to the people of Wales.

Paul Robeson was a distinguished singer and actor and also a leading civil rights activist. He is regarded as one of the most respected African-Americans of the twentieth century.

Robeson’s association with Wales began in 1928 when, whilst starring in ‘Show Boat’ in London’s West End, he met a group of South Wales miners, who had walked to London to draw attention to the hardship and suffering being endured by thousands of unemployed miners and their families. Robeson, subsequently, visited and performed in South Wales many times between 1929 and 1939. Then in 1939, he starred in The Proud Valley, a film about a mining community in the Rhondda.

In 1957, Robeson participated in the Miners’ Eisteddfod in Porthcawl by means of a transatlantic telephone link to a secret recording studio in New York. He had been unable to travel because his passport had been withdrawn by the US Government because of his outspoken left wing and anti-racist views. The South Wales miners added their voice and signatures to the international petitions that eventually forced the US Supreme Court to reinstate his passport in 1958. This allowed him to attend the 1958 Eisteddfod, where he sat alongside Aneurin Bevan.

07/15/2022

A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol, making her the first Black American in the Capitol's National Statuary Hall collection. The Library's National Audio-Video Conservation Center is home to historic film, video and audio highlights featuring Bethune, and they provide a wonderful glimpse into the life of an extraordinary woman, educator and civic leader.
https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2022/07/from-our-collection-celebrating-mary-mcleod-bethune/?loclr=fbloc

Thais Sena writes Friends Reach Out, where she outlines the struggle for Afro-Brazilians and how friends are the lifelin...
02/28/2022

Thais Sena writes Friends Reach Out, where she outlines the struggle for Afro-Brazilians and how friends are the lifeline to our survival.

https://arpj.hkspublications.org/2022/02/27/friends-reach-out/

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