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Launched in 2015, Black Mail is your source for lesser-known black history facts. We celebrate history makers, movements, and moments that have shaped our world.
Last One Standing: Black History Trivia
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Test your knowledge! Take our "Last One Standing" Black History Trivia Quiz. No Googling or surfing the web! Click the…
Confronting Environmental Injustice: Pahokee Florida’s Battle For Equity
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The environmental injustice plaguing the predominately Black and Latinx residents of Pahokee, Florida, is alarming and brings us to the…
Prathia Hall: Where MLK First Heard “I Have A Dream”
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Black History: Special Delivery!! In 1962 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was visiting Terrell County, Georgia to speak at Mt.…
Angela Davis: Quote
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Malcolm X: Quote
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Integration Ruled Illegal: Berea College v. Kentucky Supreme Court Case
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Black History: Special Delivery!! Some may be familiar with the Plessey v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision that made “segregation” of…
Angela Davis Quote
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Charlie Wiggins: Pioneer of Race Car Driving
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Black History: Special Delivery!! Charlie Wiggins was born in 1897 in Evansville, Indiana. He spent his youth shining shoes on in front of…
C.R. Patterson Auto Company; 1st Black Owned Auto Company
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Black Mail: Special Delivery!! Born into slavery on a West Virginia plantation in April 1833, C.R. Patterson escaped to…
Malcom X Quote
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Albert Cleage: Founder The Shrine of The Black Madonna
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Black History: Special Delivery!! Rev. Albert B. Cleage 1911-2000 (later changed his name to Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) was a theologian,…
Dr. Charles H. Wright: Physician With A Passion for African American History
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Black History: Special Delivery!! Dr. Charles Howard Wright (1918 – 2002) was an African-American physician. He founded the Charles H.…