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NATURAL BORN KILLAZ
shoutout @natureboimusic and @__bornsupreme__ for the project! Gave me some inspiration to do the cover art !
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#spraypaint #art #graffiti #naturalbornkillaz taken in Graffiti Alley by @gardensofbrick

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I’m gonna make you stand on what you say about me..knowing I’m a BAD MUTHAFUCKER!!!

#BMF coming soon!!
S/O @millyz taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @gardensofbrick

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Alexander Twilight

Born September 23, 1795 in Corinth, Vermont. Starting around 1802, he started working at an early age. For the next 12 years he read, studied, and learned mathematics while working in various farm labor positions. Twilight enrolled in Randolph’s Orange County Grammar School in 1815 at the age of 20. From 1815 to 1821, he completed all the institution’s secondary school courses as well as the first two years of a college level curriculum. He enrolled in Middlebury College in 1821, when he graduated in 1823 with a Bachelors of Arts degree. He was the first known African American to receiver a degree from an American institution of higher learning. This did not became widely known until 1826, when Amherst College awarded a bachelor’s degree to Edward Jones and claimed he was first African American graduate, which prompted Middlebury to publicize Twilight’s earlier graduation. In 1836, Twilight was elected to the newly established Vermont House of Representatives, becoming the first African American to be elected to a state legislature.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #legislation
28/28 taken in East Corinth, Vermont by @gardensofbrick

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Sarah Jane Woodson Early

Born November 15, 1825 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Her parents moved from Virginia to Ohio had purchased freedom for their family 5 years before Sarah was born. In 1852 Sarah enrolled in Oberlin College. She graduated with a degree in Classical Studies, among the first African American women to do so at the school. After graduation she went back home and taught in black ‘common schools’ as soon as Ohio opened them. In 1858 she was hired by Wilberforce University, Woodson became the first African American woman college instructor. She was also the first black American to teach at a HBCU and the only black American woman to teach at a college or university before the Civil War.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #teacher
27/28 taken in Chillicothe, Ohio by @gardensofbrick

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Juanita Hall

Born November 6, 1901 in Keyport, New Jersey. After high school Hall worked in the Lincoln settlement house in East Orange, New Jersey, teaching music to children during the day and to an adult chorus at night. She received classical training at the Juilliard School. By the 1930s, she was a special soloist and assistant dies for for the Hall Johnson Choir. She was on Broadway from 1949 until 1962. In 1950, she became the first African American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Bloody Mary in “South Pacific”. She also won a Donaldson Award for that role. She played the role for 1,925 performances on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre. She also was cast in 5 films and was a regular at clubs in Greenwich Village doing her renditions of classic songs of the time.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #theatre #actress
26/28 taken in Keyport, New Jersey by @gardensofbrick

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Jane Ellen McAllister

Born October 24, 1899 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Both her parents graduated of Jackson State University, some of her schooling growing up was I’ll-equipped so her parents helped her along the way. Jane graduated high school at 15. She enrolled in Talladega College in Alabama, graduating with honors in 1919. She went on to University of Michigan and earned her M.A. in 1921. In 1929, she earned her doctorate of Edication from Columbia University. She was the first African American woman in the United States to earn her doctorate in education. During her career, she worked to help enhance teacher education programs for African American teachers at HBCUs. During her time she taught at Talladega College, Emerson College (Mobile), Straight University, Jackson State University, Southern, Grambling State, Fisk, Dillard, Virginia State University, and many more universities until her retirement in 1970.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #educator #professor
25/28 by @gardensofbrick

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Val James

Born on February 14, 1957 in Ocala, Florida and raised in Hauppauge, New York. He began skating and playing hockey in Commack, New York where his father was employed as the manager of an ice rink. James was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 16th round, 184th overall in the 1977 NHL draft. He played a couple years in the minors in Canada. In July of 1981 he signed with the Buffalo Sabres, making his debut later in the 1981-82 season. James became the first Black American to play in the NHL. James was the first native-born Floridian to play in the NHL. After 10 years in the pros he retired and settled in the Niagara Region. His autobiography “Black Ice: The Val James Story” which released worldwide in 2015.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #nhl #hockey taken in Ocala, Florida by @gardensofbrick

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Crystal Bird Fauset

Born June 27, 1893 in Princess Anne, Maryland. Fauset was raised in Boston where she started her professional career being a teacher. She would go on and work for the Young Women’s Christian Association and the American Friends Service Committee. In 1935, she became assistant to the director of Philadelphia’s Works Progress Administration and also began organizing for the Democratic National Committee. In 1938, Fauset ran and was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature. Fauset was the first female African American state legislator elected in the United States. She served for a year as a state representative in which she introduced nine bills and three amendments on issues ranging from affordable housing projects to fair employment legislation.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #statelegislature #politics
23/28 taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @gardensofbrick

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William Grant Still Jr.

Born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895. Still was a composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music and solo works. Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. He is known for his first symphony, “Afro-American Symphony” (1930), which until 1950, was the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. In 1934, Still moved to Los Angeles after receiving his first of three Guggenheim Fellowship, allowing him to work on the first on his nine operas “Blue Steel” Two years later he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra in a performance of his own works. In 1955, he became the first African American to conduct a major orchestra in the Deep South, where he conducted the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1981, three years after his death, one of his works “A Bayou Legend” became the first opera by an African American composer to be performed on national television.

Guggenheim Fellowhips in music composition (1934, 1935, 1938)

One Rosenwald Fellowship

My Phi Epsilon Cotation of merit

Citation for Outstanding Service to American Music from the National Association for the American Composers and Conductors
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #composer #music
22/28 taken in Woodville, Mississippi by @gardensofbrick

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Jackie Ormes

Born August 1, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ormes drew and wrote throughout high school, even covering boxing for the Pittsburgh Courier ( a weekly African American paper that published on Saturdays). She would later go on and get her first comic strip, “Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem” oublished in the Pittsburg Courier on May 1, 1937. Ormes became the first African American woman to produce a nationally appearing comic strip. Her second comic strip called “Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger” which ran for 11 years, ending on September 22, 1956. Ormes is also responsible for getting the Terri Lee doll company to make Patty-Jo dolls and it was the first time black dolls had an extensive upscale wardrobe. She was also on the founding board of the directors of the DuSable Museum of African American History

National Assoc. of Black Journalist Hall of Fame
C/O 2014

Will Eisner Comic Industry Eisner Award Hall of Fame
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #comicstrips #dolls
21/28 taken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by @gardensofbrick

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Wentworth Cheswill

Born on April 11, 1746 in Newmarket, New Hampshire. Cheswill was an assessor, auditor, Justice of the Peace, teacher and Revolutionary War veteran. From 1768 until his death in 1817, he served in local government every year but one. Widely considered the first African American elected to public office in the history of the US, as well as the first African American judicial officer.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #justiceofthepeace
20/28 taken in Newmarket, New Hampshire by @gardensofbrick

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Tidye Pickett

Born November 3, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois. She took up running as a schoolgirl; after competing in some local meets she caught some attention nationally. In 1932 Pickett was named to the American Olympic team as part of the eight-woman 4x100 meter relay pool. Pickett and her teammate Louise Stokes became the first African American women to be selected for the Olympic Games, but both of them were left out of the final four-woman relay lineup that ran at the Olympics. In 1936 at the US Olympic Trials she competed in the 80 meter hurdles, placing second and qualifying for the Olympics in Berlin. Pickett made it to the semifinals before falling at the second hurdle and injuring herself. She was the first African American woman, as well as the first Illinois State University athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.
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#bhm #blackhistorymonth #hurdles #olympian
19/28 taken in Chicago, Illinois by @gardensofbrick

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