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thepittsburghhistoryjournal:

National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]
Watch the WQED-TV feature here.

National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]

Watch the WQED-TV feature here.

thepittsburghhistoryjournal:

National Negro Opera Company, America’s first black opera company, founded by Mary Cardwell Dawson in 1941 [Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh via WQED]

Watch the WQED-TV feature here.

likeofthedayorg:

In August of 1864, President Lincoln met with Frederick Douglass and asked him to help draw up a plan to help the slaves escape from the Confederate States. A few days after their second meeting, Douglass wrote back to Lincoln.
“I have freely conversed with several trustworthy and Patriotic Colored men concerning your suggestion that something should be speedily done to inform the slaves in the Rebel states of the true state of affairs in relation to them and to warn them as to what will be the probable condition should peace be concluded while they remain within the rebel lines: and more especially to urge upon them the necessity of making their escape.”
He continued…
“…Every slave who escapes from the Rebel states is a loss to the rebellion and a gain to the Loyal Cause, I need not stop to argue the proposition is self-evident. The negro is the stomach of the rebellion. I will therefore briefly submit at once…the ways and means by which many such persons may be wrested from the enemy and brought within our lines.”

You can read Douglass’ letter to Lincoln in its entirety (and review many other items on Douglass) by going to the Library of Congress’ website on Frederick Douglass. See: www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/douglass

burnedshoes:

© Gordon Parks, 1963, ‘Malcolm X selling newspaper’

“If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”
(Malcolm X aka Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, May 19, 1925 – Feb. 21, 1965)

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