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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

Her Green Belt Movement has planted more than 30 million trees in Africa and has helped nearly 900,000 women, according to the United Nations.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

Her efforts were the foundation for her Green Belt Movement, founded in 1977, with a mission to plant trees across Kenya to fight erosion and to create firewood for fuel and jobs for women.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

2004 - Kenyan ecologist Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

1992 - Sir Derek Walcott, a poet and playwright in St. Lucia, won the Nobel Prize in literature. In 2010, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

There was also a significant increase in political power for Black Chicagoans. The first Black person, John Jones, elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners just months after the fire.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

The fire destroyed a predominantly Black neighborhood, and many moved further south, leading to the formation of the city's Black Belt. This area became a vital center for Black culture and institutions

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

Following the fire, Chicago established Engine Company 21, a company of Black firefighters.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

Joseph’s wife, Anna Elizabeth Hudlin, was called the "Angel of the Fire" by the Chicago Tribune for opening their home to five white and Black families displaced by the blaze.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

Joseph Hudlin, a former slave who had moved to Chicago, was a hero of the fire, rushing into the burning Board of Trade building to save crucial documents, which helped the institution reopen quickly.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 14h

1871 - 37 separate fires broke out in the Great Lakes region, three were massive. The Great Chicago fire killed 300, the Great Michigan fire 300-500, and the Wisconsin Peshtigo fire - history's deadliest - killed least 1,200.

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 15h

1775 - The council of general officers decided to bar slaves and free Blacks from Continental Army.

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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 15h

Oct. 8:

Alt: “Black history is not a month it's a lifetime,” written on a yellow background

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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 1d

The daughters of the American Revolution?

Reposted by Alt_Bartender

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

Very true, and a very great opportunity to remember that Black Americans were amongst the first and most extensively targeted victims of this country's history of labor exploitation.

We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 1d

Oct. 7:

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

media.tenor.com

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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 1d

1993 - Writer Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, for her novels “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon,” and “Jazz.”

Authors do not get the Nobel Prize for one book, but rather for a collection of their books.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 1d

When a group of organizers tried to give them food and water, the state police stepped in and beat and shocked the organizers with cattle prods.

The registrations of the few people who did manage were denied.