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Hey Pandas, Who Was Your Favorite Black History Month Icon You Learned About This BHM? (Closed)

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#1

We dont have BHM in Australia but the curriculum has changed significantly since I was a kid at school. They now learn about Aboriginal heroes and freedom fighters. My favourite historical figures would be a toss up between Pemulway, Truganini or Windarine

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6points

Kevin Christoffel 1 year ago

And really, isn't EVERY month Aboriginal/African/marginalized people's month? They've been shaping our world the whole time, too!

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#2

Wilma Rudolph: Olympic medal winning track athlete who, as a childhood polio survivor, had been told she would never walk again.

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5points

Mini the Angel 1 year ago

I learned about her too! She was the fastest person in the world!

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#3

Martin Luther King Jr

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4points

Funny Trolling related name

#4

Bass reeves the original lone ranger

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4points

Monica Michelle

Martin Kaine 1 year ago

One of my favorite "Wild West" figures! Former slave who became a US Marshal. Three thousand arrests, many in Oklahoma (where white men feared to tread). Absolute bad*ss.

2points

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#5

Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

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4points

Monica Michelle

#6

Ola Hudson. She was an American fashion designer and costumier. She designed costumes for several famous musicians, including the Pointer Sisters, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, David Bowie, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. She is the mother of Saul Hudson, known professionally as Slash, of Guns N' Roses

Final score:

3points

whalien 1 year ago

I love Ola Hudson!!! Her designs are 💅beautiful

1point

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#7

Angela Davis...

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3points

Edgar (Submission author) 1 year ago

Sorry, I forgot to add : ... and her slaves owner ancestors.

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#8

Alice Ball
She was a chemist who very early in her career pioneered a treatment for Hansen's Disease, known also as leprosy, which became known as the 'Ball Method. ' She was an African-American and made a technique that used a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy.

Final score:

3points

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#9

Nobody. I already knew them. Chadwick Boseman. Obviously.

Final score:

2points

#10

Robert Smalls. We need a movie about him. Stole a confederate ship took it north and became a senator

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2points

Monica Michelle

THE BIGGEST O 1 year ago

FR

2points

#11

Bars Fight

August, twas the twenty-fifth,
Seventeen houndred forty-six,
The Indians did in ambush lay,
Some very valiant men to slay
Twas nigh unto Sam Dickinson's mill,
The Indians there five men did kill.
The names of whom I'll not leave out,
Samuel Allen like a hero foute,
And though he was so brave and bold,
His face no more shall we behold.
Eleazer Hawks was killed outright,
Before he had time to fight,
Before he did the Indians see,
Was shot and killed immediately.
Oliver Amsden he was slain,
Which caused his friends much grief pain.
Simeon Amsden they found dead
Not many rods from Oliver's head.
Adonijah Gillett, we do hear,
Did lose his life which was so dear.
John Sadler fled across the water,
And thus escaped the dreadful slaughter.
Eunice Allen see the Indians comeing
And hoped to save herself by running:
And had not her petticoats stopt her,
The awful creatures had not cotched her,
Not tommyhawked her on the head,
And left her on the ground for dead.
Young Samuel Allen, Oh! lack-a-day!
Was taken and carried to Canada.

-Lucy Terry Prince

First known poem written by a Black American!

Final score:

2points

Kevin the Manager

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#12

Helen Lacks - without knowledge of what her doctor did back in the 1940s, her cancer cells were harvested and are still used today for any and almost all medical cellular and cancer experiments.

Final score:

2points

whalien 1 year ago

HeLa cells (Henrietta?)! It's horrible what they did to her, but it is pretty cool how her cells are just immortal.

1point

#13

Rosa Parks

Final score:

1point

Mini is gone(???)

#14

Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

Final score:

1point

Monica Michelle

#15

Bass reeves the original lone ranger

Final score:

0points

Monica Michelle

#16

Bessie Coleman became a beautician and learned french all to put herself through aviation school in France to become one of the best aviatrixes

Final score:

0points

Monica Michelle

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Hello Pandas! My name is Ieva, though it's often mistaken for the word 'Leva,' and in Lithuanian, it means 'loser' (insert the pain emoji). While I don't take offense if you accidentally call me a loser, I thought I'd share something interesting with you, which I also do professionally at work.Anywayyy, my favorite part here is introducing you to creative people who deserve just as much recognition as famous celebrities. Besides that, I also enjoy memes and funny, lighthearted posts, and occasionally, I find myself drawn to a bit of internet drama.

Hello Pandas! My name is Ieva, though it's often mistaken for the word 'Leva,' and in Lithuanian, it means 'loser' (insert the pain emoji). While I don't take offense if you accidentally call me a loser, I thought I'd share something interesting with you, which I also do professionally at work.Anywayyy, my favorite part here is introducing you to creative people who deserve just as much recognition as famous celebrities. Besides that, I also enjoy memes and funny, lighthearted posts, and occasionally, I find myself drawn to a bit of internet drama.

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Han Yunli 1 year ago

Elon Musk, the richest African American man in the world.

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Max M 1 year ago

Noone

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Han Yunli 1 year ago

Elon Musk, the richest African American man in the world.

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Max M 1 year ago

Noone

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