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This #JuneteenthDay, I wanted to call out some of awesome work @ExtraCreditz has done in history content shining a light on African American history so often overlooked. I know my education missed a lot of these, so here are some episodes that struck me in particular. 👇
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Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Massacre. A terrorist attack which destroyed one of the wealthiest black communities in the US. (That opening scene of the #Watchmen show is *a lot* more historically accurate than you might realize.) youtu.be/nc7lXBL9mng
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Redlining. The practice whereby Black Americans were (legally) discriminated against for affordable housing, leading to further segregated communities and zoning requirements which still exist to this day. youtu.be/vyiwk3D-3ag
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Interstate displacement. How the political power of white Americans pushed necessary but undesirable infrastructure like freeways into the homes and communities of black Americans with less political support to fight against it. youtu.be/LmC5T-2d6Xw
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. How Black Americans were used as human experiments without their consent. Even today, the effects of this are still felt in the Black community as distrust of doctors and vaccine hesitancy. youtu.be/m63NDZVZRXc
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The Cotton Gin. How a mechanism designed to *help* southern slaves actually made their lives even worse. youtu.be/3IqNot1lxTM
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Billie Holiday. One singer's fight to stand against lynching and the government's efforts to stop her. youtu.be/bg9uCnCwGsM
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The Harlem Renaissance. An explosion of art and culture in Harlem from the Black community and it's influence on the broader American culture. youtu.be/8kZ0gZMCx9U
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Black Boxing Heavyweights. The slave-based roots of American boxing and the lives of it's most prominent figures. youtu.be/iuJCtSI_8ts
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As a good student with a love of history growing up in a mostly white neighborhood, these are just a few where I asked "why have I never heard of this before"? @ExtraCreditz has a whole playlist with even more great content and I highly recommend it. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AlikBYiNGc5yXmuiF8QPc8