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On this day in 1920, the Negro National League was formed.

"Baseball gave you a sense of belonging. The umpire ain’t white. It’s a black umpire. The owner ain’t white. Nobody’s white. This is our thing … and we have our everything – until integration, and then we don’t have our nothing."

Here's a 2020 article celebrating its 100th anniversary: https://daily.jstor.org/100th-anniversary-negro-leagues-look-back-what-was-lost/

More about NNL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_National_League_(1920%E2%80%931931)

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #OnThisDay #OTD #sports #baseball #NegroNationalLeague

"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."

https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

#music #history #MusicHistory #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #InternetUndergroundMusicArchive #IUMA

From @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social's archives: a collection of typographic posters where characters are made up of people posing as letters.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-human-alphabet/

#typography #fonts #design #letters #history

A list of inclusive holidays to remember, commemorate, and celebrate our diverse culture and history.

https://holidays.stefanbohacek.com/

#holidays #diversity #culture #history #celebration

Also #OTD:

"The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike, also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, or the great GM sit-down strike, was a sitdown strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, United States. It changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated local unions on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union, and led to the unionization of the domestic automobile industry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_sit-down_strike

#labor #LaborHistory #unions #workers #WorkersRights #history #OnThisDay

On this day in 1938, BBC Television aired the first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.. This play is also famous for coining the term "robot" from the word "labour".

Article from 2016: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/

More about the play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #scifi #robots

#TIL about Dandara dos Palmares, an Afro-Brazilian warrior queen of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil.

Much of her life is shrouded in mystery, but her tributes include appearance in at least two videogames, including Civilization VI.

https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-92877/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandara_dos_Palmares

#history #Dandara #DandaraDosPalmares #Brazil

Happy birthday to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who was born on this day in 1913 ✊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

#RosaParks #CivilRights #OTD #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

#history

On this day in 1969, The Beatles played their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert was eventually broken up by the police.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NCtzkaL2t_Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%27_rooftop_concert

#OTD #OnThisDay #music #MusicHistory #history #TheBeatles

Today in 1996, Germany first observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"The essence of the text lies in its twofold approach: one that deals with the memory and remembrance of those who were massacred during the Holocaust and the other with educating future generations of its horrors."

It's truly disappointing that we need this reminder today more than ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #holocaust #HolocaustRemembranceDay #FightFascism

The two landmark cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were decided on this day in 1973, protecting the right to have an abortion.

Today, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and the new administration made it very clear that they will continue their war against reproductive rights.

But we keep on fighting. Support an abortion fund today:

https://abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

✊

#history #OTD #OnThisDay #ReproductiveRights #RoeVWade #DoeVBolton #abortion

Ah, well, in less important news, apparently today in 1981, the DMC DeLorean went into production.

"Though its production was short-lived, the DeLorean became widely known after it was featured as the time machine in the Back to the Future films."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #delorean #BackToTheFuture