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In the era, the Fort Wayne minor league teams shared league Park with the Fort Wayne Colored Giants of the Negro Leagues, who began play in 1907. [24] [25] Today, there is a baseball historical marker at the League Park site. [26] The League Park site between South Clinton Street and South Calhoun Street is known today as Headwaters Park. [27]
Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in February of 1926.
On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs is a non-fiction book by Dorothy Scarborough. It was first published in 1925. The book, a survey of African American folk songs, has been reprinted several times. The book focuses on secular songs, that is, songs without any kind of religious message or origin.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...
Kristian Lin of the Fort Worth Weekly wrote that, though the song had initially been used by black slaves to encourage escapees and warn them of the dangers involved, when performed by the character of Tibeats it became a taunt, "like a prison guard who jingles the keys for the prisoners to hear, reminding them of what they don't have".
The first edition was illustrated by Raymond Lufkin and published in 1948 by Knopf. [4] Of the first edition Bontemps related "I would have given my eye teeth to know when I was a high school boy in California—the story that my history books barely mentioned(...)I tried to make clear how American slavery came about and what causes lay behind the present attitudes toward Negroes on the part ...
A silent short shot in 1898, “Something Good – Negro Kiss” is the first film featuring footage of African Americans […] The post Watch: The first ‘Negro Kiss’ on film and its impact in ...
Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...