the bit i told the other day about my neighbor and his fellow #LandscapeDesign students started with the information that the project with the #LosAngeles river included that they were remaking #JohnnyCarson park
he was the only one of the group who knew who johnny carson was.
and i guess also the habits of fish.
#HistoryIsImportant #AccuracyMatters

the bit i told the other day about my neighbor and his fellow #LandscapeDesign students started with the information that the project with the #LosAngeles river included that they were remaking #JohnnyCarson park
he was the only one of the group who knew who was johnny carson.
and i guess also the habits of fish.
#HistoryIsImportant #AccuracyMatters

Cont w. Miss Beasley, the 1st black woman to have a column in a Nat. Paper Oakland Tribune, discusses suffrage, anti-slavery. At a convention Sojourner Truth: "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women altogether," and as she glanced over platform, "ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again. And now that they are asking to do it the men better let them."
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Apr_25%2C_1926

#History #historyisimportant

Continuing with Delilah Beasley, the first African American in the US to have a weekly column in a newspaper, the Oakland Tribune. She addresses the "Elaine Massacre of 1919" in Phillips County, Arkansas. A racially motivated brutal event in United States history. It's a story of the relentless search for justice by three men: a black attorney, a white founding president of the NAACP, and an Arkansas former Atty General.

#NAACP #history #historyisimportant

https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Sep_28%2C_1924

Continuing with the series from Delilah L. Beasley, the first African American to have a weekly column in the Oakland Tribune. On January 12, 1930, her column notes the awards given out by the Harmon Foundation for notable achievements in African American Art, Business, Ed, Music, Science. She also notes social services efforts from the Armstrong Association of Philadelphia.

#historyisimportant #history #Beasley

https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Jan_12%2C_1930

Continuing with the series from Delilah L. Beasley, the first African American to have a weekly column in the Oakland Tribune. On January 12, 1930, her column notes the awards given out by the Harmon Foundation for notable achievements in African American Art, Business, Ed, Music, Science. She also notes social services efforts from the Armstrong Association of Philadelphia.

#historyisimportant #history #Beasley

https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Jan_12%2C_1930

Continuing with the columns of Delilah L. Beasley, the first African American to have a weekly column in a widely distributed newspaper, the Oakland Tribune. In her first column dated Sep 2, 1923, she discusses the presentation of the Spingarn Medal to George W. Carver. Mr. Carver, born into slavery, became the head of the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee University, formally known as Tuskegee Institute. #historyisimportant #Beasley. #spingarnmedal #naacp

https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Sep_02%2C_1923

On March 23, 1924 Delilah Beasley wrote in her weekly Oakland Tribune column about a letter sent to Pres. Coolidge from Noah Thompson, a noted writer, civil rights leader, which is titled, “Peace for Negroes and Whites.” She includes the president’s response. Also she notes, as she does in many columns, the tireless work of African American women/women’s clubs fighting for civil rights and voting rights.
#history #Beasley #historyisimportant
More to come.

https://localwiki.org/oakland/Activities_Among_Negroes/Sun%2C_Mar_23%2C_1924

In Sept 1923, Delilah L. Beasley began writing a column for the Oakland Tribune. A history making event, she was the first African American in the US to have such a column. She wrote about local CA events, but equally or more imp, she chronicled in real time, the national struggle for equal rights, voting rights and injustices of the gov. She highlighted contributions of Black and White legislators, historians, leaders of the day. More to come.
#history #Beasley #media #historyisimportant