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ts-wicked-wonders · 3 months

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Black History Month: African American history you probably weren't taught in school

CR Patterson & Sons was the first and only African American-owned and operated automobile company.

The company was founded by Charles Richard Patterson, a man born into slavery in Virginia in 1833. Between 1841 and 1843, the Patterson family relocated and settled down in Greenfield, Ohio, where Patterson became skilled in blacksmithing and found working making high-quality carriages.

By 1873, he formed a business partnership with a white man named J.P. Lowe, and just two decades later he became the sole owner of CR Patterson & Sons. From 1893 to 1910, the company listed around 28 models of buggies and carriages.

After Patterson died in 1910, his son, Frederick Patterson, took over the company and transitioned it to horseless carriages, and eventually to the Patterson-Greenfield automobile. Frederick was a leading figure of his own — he was the first black man to play football for The Ohio State University. The company gained success and great pride with its automobile model, which was originally listed at $675.

To this day, C.R. Patterson & Sons remains the only Black-owned and operated automobile company in American history, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Read more: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/only-african-american-automobile-company

(photo)Fred Patterson. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Greenfield, Ohio

#black excellence #black pioneers #black history matters #black and proud #african america history #african american history #black history #black history month #black tumblr #black americans

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afrotumble · 8 months

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Siya Kolisi, the first black South African national rugby team (the Springboks) captain - a world cup winning captain in 2019.

#black pioneers #rugby #south africa #siya kolisi #captain

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longlistshort · 1 year

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Pictured above- Call Me Mrs. Mary E. Pleasant: The Midas Touch by L'Merchie Frazier- a portrait of entrepreneur, civil rights activist and benefactor, Mary Ellen Pleasant who made a name and a fortune for herself in Gold Rush era San Francisco. Her timeline from 1814 to 1904 begins in racial slavery as an indentured servant girl with no formal education. She ascended to a self-made millionaire, amassing a fortune in her lifetime of over $30 million, ($900 million today).

The second image is A Good Soldier: Thomas C. Fleming, America's Longest Serving Black Journalist by Rosy Petri- At the time of his retirement in 1997, California journalist Thomas C. Fleming was the nation's oldest Black journalist with the longest consecutive period of publication.

Both of these quilts are from Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West at The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art. Organized by historian, artist, and curator Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, it includes 50 pictorial quilts created by members of Women of Color Quilters Network, a group founded by Mazloomi in 1985.

Mazloomi's statement at the exhibition entrance-

American history is incomplete without the stories of African American men and women, from our enslaved ancestors to our societal challenges. The role of African Americans in the movement toward westward expansion has been largely overlooked. This exhibition of original pictorial quilts brings into focus the rich and diverse stories and achievements of Blacks in American western history. The timeline begins with Esteban's 1528 arrival in the West and continues through the Civil Rights Movement.

At the end of Reconstruction in the South, discrimination and segregation caused African Americans to seek opportunities where there was less prejudice. In the 1800s, they moved by the thousands to the American West. Some went West as slaves, while free African American men joined the United States Army or became ranch hands, fur traders, cowboys, or miners.

Why quilts? Quilts and quilt making are important to American, and Black culture in particular. The art form was historically one of the few mediums accessible to marginalized groups to tell their own story, to provide warmth for their families, and to empower them with a voice through cloth. Using quilts to tell these stories accentuates the intersections of African Americans in the Western frontier while at once informing about the art form and its role in Black history. It is this often unknown and underappreciated shared reality that must be voiced if we are ever to truly value the unique contributions diverse groups make to the fabric of our nation.

The impressive quilts on view educate viewers with stories of individuals and events in African American history that may not have previously been familiar, and present new perspectives on those that are. It's a wonderful way to utilize a visual medium to captivate, inform, and often inspire.

This exhibition closes on 1/8/2023.

#the james museum #dr. carolyn mazloomi #women of color quilters network #quilts #fiber arts #l'merchie frazier #rosy petri #black history #black pioneers #art #florida art shows #st pete art shows #art shows #quilt art #mary ellen pleasant #thomas c fleming

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marcusbelafonte · 1 year

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March 1st, 1927 - April 25, 2023

RIP to the great Harry Belafonte.

What a life.

Daylight come and me wan’ go home.

#Harry Belafonte #RIP #Black Culture #Civil Rights #MLK #Jamaican #Heart Failure #Banana Boat #Day-O #Music #Pioneer #Video #Inspiration #Activist

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monstroso · 6 months

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Hey everyone, and happy happy holidays to you all! For the occasion, @djangodurango and I got you a pair of cozy diesel engines and a pretty extensive update to The Future Is Still Silver And Black.

This update includes: New graphics! A guestbook! A searchable timeline! Art by the incredible @ferlost! And an all new set of letters! (As well as some edits to the old ones, shh!)

As always, thank you so much for your continued interest and support! We've been working really hard on this for a good few months and we're so excited to share our progress with you to close out 2023!

#the future is still silver and black #silver pilot #pioneer zephyr #my art #ray plays trains #cb&q 9911a #cb&q 9900 #hibernal salutations everyone!

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kojiarakiartworks · 6 months

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November 2003 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A.

This photo was taken in 2003.This year, the 39th ceremony will be held.

■2023 39th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony

https://www.thesquarepdx.org/event/39th-annual-tree-lighting-ceremony/

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

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sovietpostcards · 1 year

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Grandfather and grandson read in the park. Photo by Pyotr Nosov (Moscow, 1964).

#family #1960s #reading #soviet #ussr #russia #history #photography #black and white #pioneers

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wallyhastoomanynuzlockes · 2 months

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I am very afraid.

This is a physical cartridge. This isn't the first time something inexplicable and weird happened. Though it hasn't happened often.

#tales of abyss #tales of the abyss #tales of series #tales of #tota #tales series #video games #video #I had the game crash on me once too to a black screen in some way nobody else had ever mentioned. in the mines #triggering the Set Oil Buckets On Fire dialogue #it never happened again #is my cartridge mildly cursed #I would expect this from a dragon age game! but this isn't even an open world game!#this exact same glitch happened to my dog in pioneers of olive town but i dont understand how the human man got on the ground #glitch

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johnslittlespoon · 1 month

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hey, how do we feel about ken and brady? because:

thinking about brady getting up early to go spend time with his little mechanic before everyone else is awake, his version of courting ken being sitting on the tailgate of a truck to watch him do his routine checks, fond smile playing at his lips, a softness so evident that it'd be useless to deny it if anyone pointed it out, but he'd still try.

ken following him around base like a lovesick puppy after the morning's mission, hanging off his every word, looking at him like he's the coolest ever, and to ken he is. eagerly leaning forward in his seat, chin in hand when brady relents and tells him about his flight in the mess hall later, shooting question after question at him until brady quiets him with the suggestion that they go on a walk, "so we don't drive the others mad with your yapping."

ken grows more shy when it's just the two of them, hands in his pockets as they walk off base to stroll down a quiet country trail, fighting off a dopey grin every time brady purposefully bumps against him. the rush of developing feelings, every interaction feeling so fresh and exciting, pure young summer love.

a drawled out "enough about the mission– what'd my pretty handyman get up to while i was gone?" as brady slings an arm around his waist when they're far enough off the road to not worry. light pink blooming on ken's cheeks at his words, smiling bashfully as he tells him about the little things that happened throughout the morning.

the two of them end up in some open field as they often do, sweaty in the sun, cargo pants on but shirts discarded in the grass. brady's laid out on his back with sweet angel ken on top of him, hands cupping ken's face as his boy leans down to kiss him all smiley and giggly and flushed, curls messy from the summer heat and roaming hands.

all of their days off spent in that field, a summer full of lazy make–outs and secret glances and careful brushes of hands, growingly increasingly fonder of each other's company and navigating the feelings that come with that. evenings spent up on the wing of whatever plane ken's spent the day working on, laying his head in brady's lap as the sun goes down, resting his eyes while brady reads his book out loud to him, or while they both talk about their days.

innocent first–love surviving the summer, stretching into fall and then winter, romps in fields turning into cold evenings under blankets when they can sneak into unoccupied barracks. the light small talk and nervous kisses and hand holding of the sunny season morph into late night conversations over the howling wind outside about what will happen after the war, fantasizing about a cozy apartment and a bed for two and quiet mornings and a future together.

#i don't think i've ever thought of this pairing or seen anyone else talk about it so i might be alone in this one lmk #but this vision of sweet wholesome summertime love popped into my head i think i'm kinda fond of them sigh #they'd be such a sight together and so so endearing #literally the black cat bf and golden retriever bf combo #something about pilot x mechanic itches my brain #i'm tired is this anything????#i don't think there's even a ship tag for them oh god this is so much pressure #i'll pioneer this pairing if i gotta. i volunteer as tribute #ken x brady #?#krady #hehe #reminds me of kraft dinner idk #WAIT i like:#blemmons #i think that's cute :-) let's go with that #johnslittlespoon brainrot

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pissditching · 1 year

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God I KNEW this was gonna happen. If you're excited about fob returning to a more punk/emo sound that's wonderful but if you knock their rnb/blues/electronic/hip hop influenced sound in that excitement then you fundamentally misunderstood the message of mania and need to take a look at why you view those genres and that sound as "pedestrian" and of lesser value.

#fob #fob has always had blues/rnb/hip hop influences and so does lftos #black artists have always been deeply involved with fall out boy as collaborators and influences and producers #pete wentz himself is a black artist #to knock sounds and genres pioneered by black artists (INCLUDING ROCK AND PUNK ROCK BTW) is directly disrespectful on so many levels #it's disrespectful to the music the people who make the music and fall out boy itself #also it's racist so. there's that. sorry

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ts-wicked-wonders · 3 months

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Black History Month: African American history you probably weren't taught in school

Katherine Johnson was a mathematician for NASA whose work was critical to sending astronauts into orbit and landing a man on the moon.

Katherine Johnson was born in Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1918 and excelled in mathematics from a young age. After skipping several grades throughout primary school, Johnson attended West Virginia University, and was handpicked as one of three Black students — and the only Black woman — to attend WVU's graduate program.

In 1952 she began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which slowly transitioned into the program we know today as NASA. There, she worked on an investigation of a plane crash and analyzed date from flight tests.

When the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik in 1957, Johnson transitioned into mathematics for space travel and became a part of the Space Task Force, which was the first official move into space exploration. Johnson co-authored a report laying out equations needed for orbital space flight and became the first woman credited as a research author for the team.

Johnson's orbital calculations became seminal, and she conducted, by hand, one of the final tests before successfully sending John Glenn into space. Following that success, Johnson's calculations were used to send a man to the moon, marking a historic moment in US space flight.

In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom to honor her contributions, and she was the subject of the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," which dramatized her work at the space agency.

Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/katherine-johnson-biography/

(Photo) Katherine Johnson. Wikimedia Commons

#black americans #black history matters #black pioneers #black excellence #black history #black history month #black tumblr #black and proud #african america history #african american history

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afrotumble · 1 month

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8 Black Pioneers in Medicine and Healthcare You Should Know | American College of Healthcare Executives

#black pioneers #medicine #healthcare

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longlistshort · 1 year

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Stagecoach Mary by Dorothy Burge is one of the many incredible quilts in The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art ‘s exhibition “Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West” organized by historian, artist, and curator Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi.

From the museum’s wall information about the work-

Mary Fields- also known as Stagecoach Mary, Black Mary and White Crow-became a Wild West legend because she was the second woman and the first African American woman star route mail carrier in the United States.

Born into slavery and freed after the Civil War, she worked as a servant and laundress for families on riverboats before moving to Montana in 1885. A decade later she became a star route carrier, delivering mail using a stagecoach. She drove the 15-mile route from Cascade to Saint Peter’s Mission, Montana, from 1895 to 1903. Nicknamed Stagecoach Mary, she was known for her reliability and speed.

The six-foot-tall Fields was a quick-shooting and hard drinking mail carrier who wore men’s clothing and flaunted a revolver and a rifle. Locals praised her kindness and generosity, and schools in the town of Cascade were closed each year to celebrate her birthday. Cascade’s mayor granted her an exemption to enter saloons after Montana passed a law forbidding women from entering these establishments.

This exhibition closes 1/8/23.

#dorothy burge #the james museum #the james museum of western and wildlife art #dr. carolyn mazloomi #st pete art shows #florida art shows #art shows #art #quilts #fiber art #stagecoach mary #black history #black pioneers

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streetplaya · 1 year

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Michael Jackson on the Triumph Tour, 1981.

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monstroso · 8 months

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Traintober Day 1: Free Day!

Decided to lean into the autumn theme for this one. If I manifest it with sweater vests and turtlenecks, surely the weather will start to feel like fall any day now.

#traintober #traintober 2023 #pioneer zephyr #silver pilot #my art #the future is still silver and black

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kojiarakiartworks · 1 month

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December 2003 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A.

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

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