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May 29, 2023

The FORGOTTEN History of Memorial Day

Freed African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, conducted the earliest recorded Memorial Day observance in the country. This celebration, occurring in 1865 and at the time it was dubbed "Decoration Day" Audio Onemichistory.com Follow me on...

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May 8, 2023

Why did Civil Rights Leader wear Suits?

Why did Civil Rights Leader wear Suits? wouldnt jeans have been more comfortable? Listen and enjoy while I explain the history of the fashion of the unheard. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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April 24, 2023

Why do Black People love Cadillacs?

Why Do Black Folks love Cadillacs? When Cadillac was at their worse they turned to affluent African Americans for help, Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being fans of Cadillacs. Audio: …

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April 10, 2023

Why do Black Folks Vote Democrat?

Why are so many black voters democrats, is their a historical reason behind this? Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being democrats. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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March 27, 2023

How Did Watermelons Become Racist?

How are watermelons racist, doesn't everyone enjoy watermelons, Secondly, we have the short story of DeeDee Chandler the man who gave birth to the modern Drum set Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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March 13, 2023

Why do Black People love Hennessy?

Why Do Black Folks love Congac? The story once again dates back to Black GIs and the World Wars. Audio: Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m...

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Feb. 27, 2023

The Ugly Side of Coca Cola (The History of Racism and Soft Drinks)

Did you know that Coke heavily influenced by racism and marketed to premaitly to whites, while Pepsi established a division dedicated to targeting African American customers? Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Feb. 20, 2023

Reclaiming Lost Black Communities (The Stories of 3 Lost Black Towns)

The short stories of the displacment of African Americans of three communities; Seneca Village, Mill Creek Valley and Bruce's Beach. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee...

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Feb. 13, 2023

Why Don't Black Folks eat Pumpkin Pie?

Why Don't Black Folks eat Pumpkin Pie? How did we start eating Sweet Potato Pie? Join us while we detail the answer to this puzzling questions. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a...

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Feb. 6, 2023

Why is Oregon so White? (The History of Black Exclusion Laws in Orego…

Oregon once had a set of laws in place that legally prohibited African Americans from entering the state. Although these laws were not actively enforced, they were incredibly effective in preventing Black people from settling in Oregon. Audio...

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Feb. 2, 2023

The Other KFC (The History of Korean Fried Chicken and Black GIs)

As Black GIs were stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, they were able to introduce the Korean people to American Fried Chicken. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee...

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Jan. 23, 2023

A Hero's Journey (The Murder of Medger Evers)

Medgar Evers was Civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. When he was assassinated outside of his Mississippi home in 1963. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Jan. 9, 2023

The Dangerous Ride Towards Freedom (The Story of the Freedom Riders)

Freedom Riders were a group of activists who rode interstate buses to challenge the enforcement of two Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Dec. 26, 2022

The SNCC and Student Civil Rights Activism

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal method for student involvement in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the sit-ins movement at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina....

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Dec. 12, 2022

How Four Black Students Changed the World (The Story of the Greensbor…

On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments...

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Nov. 28, 2022

Ruby Bridges goes to School (The Story of Ruby Bridges)

Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Nov. 14, 2022

The Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education Audio Onemichistory.com...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Brown v Board II: The Massive Resistance

Following the 1954 Brown ruling,, Southerners responded angrily soon a Massive Resistance campaign began an attempt to block integration at every level of government. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Oct. 17, 2022

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Civil rights org, established by the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 to assist and coordinate with local organizations in their fight for full equality of African Americans in America. Audio...

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Oct. 3, 2022

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against...

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Sept. 19, 2022

The Life of Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights movement

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave …

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Sept. 5, 2022

Lost in the Movement: The Story of Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, …

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June 27, 2022

The Murder of Emmett Till

Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were …

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June 19, 2022

Bonus - The History of Juneteenth (Remastered)

Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States,...

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