One Mic Black History

George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy, who at the age of 14 was convicted, and executed, for the murders of June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7 in March 1944. Audio Onemichistory.com Follow me on Instagram: @onemic_history Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/onemichistory Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Onemichistory Please support our Patreon:...

Juneteenth foods, are deeply rooted in the African-American experience. foods like Barbecue pork, watermelon, and collard greens are all traditional dishes that reflect the resilience of the African-American people. These dishes not only provide sustenance, but also serve as symbols of African-American pride, representing the strength, courage, and perseverance of African-Americans in the face of...

In 1939, as Europe was engulfed in war, Jacques Abtey, the Chief of France’s military intelligence service, went against the grain and recruited a highly unexpected spy – the American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker. Follow me on Instagram: @onemic_history Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/onemichistory Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Onemichistory Audio Onemichistor...

Freed African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, conducted the earliest recorded Memorial Day observance in the country. This celebration, occurring in 1865 and at the time it was dubbed "Decoration Day" Audio Onemichistory.com Follow me on Instagram: @onemic_history Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/onemichistory Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Onemichistory Please s...

Why did Civil Rights Leader wear Suits? wouldnt jeans have been more comfortable? Listen and enjoy while I explain the history of the fashion of the unheard. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m Sources: https://www.vogue.com/article/rosa-parks-civil-rights-angela-davis-coretta-scott-k...

Why Do Black Folks love Cadillacs? When Cadillac was at their worse they turned to affluent African Americans for help, Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being fans of Cadillacs. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.washingtonpost...

Why are so many black voters democrats, is their a historical reason behind this? Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being democrats. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/why-are-blacks-democrats https://www.w...

How are watermelons racist, doesn't everyone enjoy watermelons, Second we have the short story of DeeDee Chandler the man who gave birth to the modern Drum set. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/how-watermelons-became-a-racist-trop...

Why Do Black Folks love Cognac? Have you ever wondered why Hennessy has a stranglehold on the Black community or how Woke became a curse word? Listen. enjoy and we will give the answers to both these burning questions. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://slate.com/human-intere...

Did you know that Coke heavily influenced by racism and marketed to premaitly to whites, while Pepsi established a division dedicated to targeting African American customers? Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/brief-history-racist-s...

The short stories of the displacement of African Americans of three communities; Seneca Village, Mill Creek Valley and Bruce's Beach. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/seneca-village https://www.nps.gov/articles/seneca-village-new-york-city.htm...

Why Don't Black Folks eat Pumpkin Pie? How did we start eating Sweet Potato Pie? Join us while we detail the answer to these puzzling questions. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/how-sweet-potato-pie-became-african-americans-favorite-dess...

Oregon once had a set of laws in place that legally prohibited African Americans from entering the state. Although these laws were not actively enforced, they were incredibly effective in preventing Black people from settling in Oregon. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.o...

As Black GIs were stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, they were able to introduce the Korean people to American Fried Chicken. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.mashed.com/899880/the-untold-truth-of-korean-fried-chicken/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_fr...

Medgar Evers was Civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. When he was assassinated outside of his Mississippi home in 1963. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers https://naacp.org/find-resources/hist...

Freedom Riders were a group of activists who rode interstate buses to challenge the enforcement of two Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m In struggle : SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s by...

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal method for student involvement in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 after the sit-ins movement at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m In s...

On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee...

Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m Through My Eyes By Ruby Bridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges https://www.britannica...

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://www.history.com/topics/black...

Following the 1954 Brown ruling, Southerners responded angrily soon a Massive Resistance campaign began an attempt to block integration at every level of government. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m https://eji.org/reports/segregation-in-america/ https://www.history.com/topics/black...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Civil rights org, established by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 to assist and coordinate with local organizations in their fight for full equality of African Americans in America. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m To redeem th...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the United States. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buym...

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave of protests that reverberated throughout the United States and redirected the course of Black history. #blackhistory #civilrights #rosaparks Audio Onemichistory.com Pleas...

Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m Claudette Colvin: Twice Tow...