Hoskins broke barriers in Texas League Right-hander continued integration of Minor League Baseball Photo: Dave Hoskins led the Texas League with 22 wins and ranked fifth with a 2.12 ERA for the Dallas Eagles in 1952. (Texas League) (MILB.com) April 15, 1947 might be baseball's moment to cherish, but the historical significance of that [...]
The Heroines of America’s Black Press Image: A collage of the art commissioned for this article; from top left, by Johnalynn Holland, Andrea Pippins, Erin Robinson, Elise R. Peterson, Adriana Bellet, and Xia Gordon (The New York Review of Books) How many black women journalists from the nineteenth century can you name? For many, [...]
Willis, Texas native The Black Businessman Who Built an Empire Despite Jim Crow Oppression Using white colleagues as front men, Bernard Garrett bought real estate, made millions and uplifted fellow blacks in pursuit of the American dream. (History.com) During the 1950s and ‘60s, the civil rights movement dominated the political landscape. But for Bernard [...]
How the Black Power Movement Influenced the Civil Rights Movement With a focus on racial pride and self-determination, leaders of the Black Power movement argued that civil rights activism did not go far enough. Image: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (History.com) By 1966, the civil rights movement had been gaining momentum for more than a decade, [...]
How an African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox. Image: A Boston advertisement for a cargo of about 250 slaves recently arrived from Africa circa 1700, particularly stressing that the slaves are free of smallpox, having been quarantined on their [...]
Newly Found Letters Show How Texas Longhorns Delayed Integration Photo: The University of Texas football program has a storied history. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) (WBUR) Asher Price was one of approximately 97,000 fans in the stadium when the University of Texas played Kansas in October of last year. "The crowd was overflowing with burnt orange [...]
One of my fondest memories from childhood is Saturday morning cartoons. That was the only time of the week I gladly woke up at 7 a.m. I remember rushing in my pajamas to that big(?) 19” TV to watch Bugs Bunny and Super Friends. Sometimes my mother would sit with me. But I remember [...]
How Martin Luther King Jr. and Motown Saved the Sound of the Civil Rights Movement Photo: Martin Luther King, Jr. with Berry Gordy, actress Lena Horne, and musician Billy Taylor, in August 1963 at a Southern Christian Leadership Conference benefit program in Atlanta, Georgia. (Courtesy Motown Museum) (Time.com) You know Martin Luther King Jr.’s [...]
Descendants -- A Washington Post original series Image: “The Principal Varieties of Mankind,” drawn by British artist John Emslie in the mid-19th century. (Science Museum Group Collection) (The Washington Post) For many Americans, blended ancestry is an integral part of their identity. The mosaic of hyphenated heritages preserves cultural connections beyond the United States, [...]
Save the date, call for presentations! 2020 Aya Symposium at PVAMU K-12 Texas educators attending the event will receive 7 CPE credits! Following on the success of last year's event, the 2020 Aya Symposium, in association with the Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival, is set for Friday, June 5, at Prairie View A&M University. [...]
