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Official 2024 FA/Trades Thread - IN: TE Ertz, DE Armstrong, C Biadasz, LB Luvu, RB Ekeler, K McManus, LG Allegretti, DE Ferrell, QB Mariota, DE Fowler Jr., LS Ott, S Chinn, LB Wagner, ST/LB Pittman, ST/CB Igbinoghene, CB Davis BACK: Reaves, Crowder, Obada
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Official 2024 FA/Trades Thread - IN: TE Ertz, DE Armstrong, C Biadasz, LB Luvu, RB Ekeler, K McManus, LG Allegretti, DE Ferrell, QB Mariota, DE Fowler Jr., LS Ott, S Chinn, LB Wagner, ST/LB Pittman, ST/CB Igbinoghene, CB Davis BACK: Reaves, Crowder, Obada
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Woke has been commercialized…Target will be selling t-shirts soon. Stolen legacy again….dang! Liberals hijacked the message.
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Fritz Pollard: the First Black Professional Football Quarterback and Coach If you think Marlin Briscoe, in 1968, as the first Black quarterback in the American Football League, think what it must have been like for Frederick Douglass “Fritz” Pollard. In 1920, he was one of only two Black players in the inaugural season of the American Professional Football Association (It became the NFL in 1922). He went on to become the league’s first Black coach and Black quarterback. https://www.communityvoiceks.com/2019/01/30/fritz-pollard-the-first-black-professional-football-quarterback-and-coach/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fritz-Pollard
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African Americans in the Revolutionary War During the American Revolution African American men, both enslaved and free fought in the Continental Army. Black soldiers served in mostly integrated units at this time. The First Rhode Island Regiment is the most famous regiment that included African Americans during the American Revolution. In 1778 the Rhode Island Assembly voted to allow “every able-bodied negro, mulatto, or Indian man slave in this state to enlist into either of the Continental Battalions being raised. https://www.nps.gov/chyo/learn/historyculture/african-americans-in-the-revolutionary-war.htm
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The plaque of FDR by Selma Burke on which the dime is based. The Roosevelt Dime President Roosevelt died in early 1945, about five months before Burke's sculpture was officially unveiled to the public. After his passing, the U.S. Mint proposed replacing the image of Lady Liberty on the dime with Roosevelt, who founded the March of Dimes in 1938 as a fundraiser for polio research. They assigned the task to John Sinnock, an assistant engraver at the Philadelphia mint, who said he worked from photographs of Roosevelt as well as two unknown relief sculptures. After these Roosevelt dimes began circulating, Burke and her supporters voiced their immediate criticism of Sinnock's design, claiming he plagiarized her sculpture and demanding an investigation. Instead, Burke found herself under investigation by the F.B.I. Sinnock vehemently denied the allegations, and few in government were inclined to look too deeply into a black woman's claims against a white man. Incidentally, Sinnock was later accused of stealing another artist's design for the Sesquicentennial of Independence half dollar, but his initials remain on the dime to this day while Burke's contributions often go overlooked. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/selma-burke
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Black Men Were Cowboys Before It Was Cool In 1830, 1840, the 1850s and '60s, there was nothing but Black cowboys," Callies says. "You wanna know why? In Texas, 'cowboy' was a slave name. The white man didn't want to work horses and work cows. He refused to be called a cowboy. He wanted to be a cowhand or a cow puncher. https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/black-cowboys.htm
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How Elijah McCoy Invented ‘The Real McCoy’ The automatic engine lubricator invented by National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee® (NIHF) Elijah McCoy, steam-powered trains no longer had to stop during travel in order to lubricate. McCoy patented his invention, known as an “oil-drip cup,” in 1872, and the device was an instant success. However, due to its ingeniously simple design, other railroads began creating similar versions. Historians believe that because McCoy’s version of the “oil-drip cup” was the most effective, engineers began asking for “the real McCoy.” https://www.invent.org/inductees/elijah-mccoy
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I know that some of you have been here. Florida Avenue Grill Billed as the oldest soul food restaurant in the world, Florida Avenue Grillopened its doors in 1944 and has been treating customers with kindness and lovingly prepared food ever since. Owned and managed by the Wilson family for years. http://www.floridaavenuegrill.com/history.html Thanks….funny thing about so called black history is that if Americans just told the whole truth, we probably wouldn’t need black history. It is the story of all Americans.
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I did and then @Jumbo came to mind. 😂 African American Roots and Influences in Country Music Country music’s earliest instruments were the fiddle and the banjo. Early immigrants brought the fiddle to America, while the banjo was brought by enslaved Africans. https://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/african-american-roots-influences-video-gallery/ken-burns-country-music/
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Jackson Ward & Richmond's Pre-Eminent Black History By now, many people have heard Jackson Ward was also described as “Black Wall Street,” and the “cradle of Black capitalism; these monikers point to the community’s reputation as a hotbed of Black business in the late 19th century through the first half of the following century. Jackson Ward was home to more than 100 businesses owned by African Americans. The late 1950s would have a devastating effect on the unity of Jackson Ward. City and state officials designed the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike (now part of I-95) to pass through Jackson Ward, bisecting the neighborhood and tearing down many structures. At the same time, desegregation and white flight were opening other neighborhoods to blacks, beginning a scattering that gradually left more and more of Jackson Ward in the possession of absentee landlords and real estate speculators. As buildings began to deteriorate, the area was further targeted for new development such as federal housing projects, the City Coliseum that opened in 1970, and the building of additional administrative buildings by the city, state, and VCU. A number of the buildings pictured here have been demolished in the thirty years since these photographs were taken. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/jackson-ward-and-its-black-wall-street.htm