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Dreamland Park offered fun and recreation to Black community from 1921 to 1938
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“To my way of thinking, the colored people should at least have a place where they can congregate...
Historic mistake? White bricks have many in downtown Fort Myers seeing red
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWithout permission and despite a stop-work order, the historic red-brick building that once housed...
Black History Month: Ernest Tidrington 'boss' of Bapttistown in Evansville
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoEditor's note: The Courier & Press and The Gleaner are marking Black History Month with a collection...
Historic marker celebrating area's first African American USO Club installed in Lebanon
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA historical marker placed last week in Lebanon celebrates the contributions of an African American...
Righting the past: Walker W. Thomas, national newspaper correspondent and veteran, dead at 28
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor’s note: This is the ninth in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men...
Righting the past: Ella L. Jordan, civic leader, dead at 75
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoElla L. Jordan, a devoted community leader, educator and political activist who founded the...
Righting the Past: James Goldstucker, famed baseball manager and businessman, dead at 75
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor's note: This is the third in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men...
In segregated Chicago, black and tans provided lively nightlife in the early 20th century
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She...
How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPortrait of Betty and Willis Coles by William Bullard from about 1902. Courtesy of Frank Morrill,...
Four Kokomo houses were listed in the Green Book, three still standing
Kokomo Tribune, Ind. via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFeb. 28—The Supreme Court created a legal precedent to divide Americans by race with its 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Coupled with discriminatory Jim Crow laws and violently enforced segregation ...