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@eddsmitty.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 10:43 AM

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🧵 The Catcher Race Riot of 1923 began and ended the same as they all did—a Black man accused of a crime and all hell breaks loose.

Many of you—including myself, never heard of this one. Pull up a 🪑my friends. (cont)

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@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 12:43 AM

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Claude McKay was born on this day in 1890 in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. His literature defied Black intellectual ideology by depicting the realities of working-class Black life. He was also a political radical who ultimately found his home in Catholic social justice movements. /1

Claude McKay. McKay was a quadruple outsider whose journey spanned rural Jamaica to the heights of the Harlem Renaissance, across the Soviet Union, Europe and North Africa, and finally to the Catholic Worker houses of Chicago. He was an immigrant, a realist, a political radical and a bisexual who refused to conform to anyone else’s expectations. He rejected capitalist inequality but later became disillusioned by Soviet totalitarianism, spending his later years combining his radical, pro-labor beliefs with his conversion to Catholicism. Today, McKay is celebrated as an uncompromising pioneer of Black literature and social realism. By centering his novels on waiters, dockworkers and vagabonds, he broke the mold of “respectability politics” and laid the groundwork for future generations of realistic Black storytelling.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 12:42 AM

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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was born on this day in 1941 in Washington, D.C. One of the most courageous white allies of the Civil Rights Movement, she participated in more than 50 sit-ins and demonstrations at great risk. At 85, she continues to support modern civil rights causes. /1

Joan Traupauer Mulholland. Mulholland’s life embodies the power of moral courage, relentless allyship and quiet humility. She was a tireless activist who faced death threats and incarceration for standing up for civil rights. Her worldview is anchored in her deep Christian faith and her recognition of the glaring hypocrisy of a segregated society that claimed to share that faith. She believed that those with societal privilege have a moral obligation to risk it to stand in solidarity with the oppressed. Her enduring legacy is that of an “ordinary hero” who proved that physical stature and background do not limit one’s capacity to change history.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 11:43 PM

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Today in history, 1964: MLK visits West Berlin to deliver a message of unity and human rights to a massive crowd. He then broke protocol and passed through the Berlin Wall to speak in East Germany. His message proved that the struggle against oppression is the same everywhere. /1

MLK speaks to some 20,000 West Berliners at the Waldbühne, Sept. 13, 1964. When MLK stood before an enormous, emotionally charged crowd at the outdoor Waldbühne amphitheater, his sermon served as a sweeping philosophical indictment of the Berlin Wall. He condemned it as a “symbol of the divisions of mankind on the face of the Earth.” During his sermon, MLK drew parallels between the segregation struggles in the U.S. and the geopolitical divisions in Germany. He declared: “For here on either side of the wall are God’s children, and no manmade barrier can obliterate that fact.” Photo credit: Ullstein bild – dpa.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 3:35 PM

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“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”
— Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton. Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, shared this perspective during a 1973 interview on the PBS program Firing Line. When looking at social revolutions or civil rights movements from the outside, it is easy for observers to assume that the driving force is anger or hatred toward an oppressive system. However, Newton argued that true, sustained community activism comes from a place of deep devotion and love for the people being protected. By focusing on love rather than malice, the objective shifts from merely destroying an enemy to actively building, supporting and uplifting a community.
@eddsmitty.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 10:25 AM

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🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army.

Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont)

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@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 12:42 AM

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Nellie Wong was born on this day in 1934 in Oakland, Calif. She was a poet, feminist and socialist activist who fought against intersecting systems of oppression. Her poetry and lectures challenged activist spaces that demanded people “leave parts of themselves at the door.” /1

Nellie Wong. Wong’s life and art were dedicated to the liberation of working-class people, women and marginalized communities. Over a 50-year career, she declared herself a “Chinese American revolutionary feminist” and proved that poetry and political organizing are two halves of the same revolutionary act. Unlike theorists who analyzed oppression from academic towers, Wong’s politics were forged by decades of manual and corporate labor. She walked her talk on the pavement, leading historic defense campaigns, walking union picket lines and traveling on international solidarity tours. She spent her later years writing bilingual poetry to preserve the dying immigrant dialect of Hoisan-wa. She died in January 2026 at the age of 91, proving that a long, joyful life is driven by the continuous flow of radical hope and collective resistance.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 12:36 AM

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Mary Watson Whitney was born on this day in 1847 in Waltham, Mass. She went around societal barriers to become an astronomer and help other women enter the field. On her deathbed in 1921, she said, “I hope when I get to Heaven, I shall not find the women playing second fiddle.” /1

Mary Watson Whitney. was a pioneering American astronomer, mathematician, and educator who served as the director of the Vassar College Observatory for over two decades. As the protégée and successor of trailblazing astronomer Maria Mitchell, Whitney published more than 100 scientific papers and dedicated her life to proving that women could excel in the upper echelons of professional science. Her activism was rooted in achieving gender equality through professional excellence and financial independence. Because she spent much of her early adulthood fighting institutional barriers, she devoted her career to dismantling the prejudice that women lacked the physical or mental stamina for rigorous academic and research work. When she died of pneumonia on Jan. 21, 1921, she did so knowing that she had built an unbroken lineage of female scientific authority that would endure for generations. Photo credit: Vassar University.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 12:47 AM

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Today in history, 1897: Sheriff’s deputies open fire on a peaceful march of unarmed striking coal miners, killing 19 and wounding dozens more. Many were shot in the back. Most of the workers were immigrants, murdered for daring to protest long hours and economic exploitation. /1

Illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper depicting sheriff’s deputies preparing to fire at striking miners. The Lattimer Massacre remains one of the darkest chapters in American labor history, defining the brutal extremes of industrial capitalism. The event was defined by unchecked corporate violence self-justified through anti-immigrant prejudice. Perhaps the most tragic element of Lattimer is the collective amnesia that followed. The coal barons kept the Lattimer Massacre out of the history books, but they did not crush the workers. In the immediate aftermath, more than 10,000 immigrant miners flooded into the United Mine Workers of America. They created a unified, multi-ethnic labor force that would soon shift the balance of power between corporations and the working class. Image credit: Library of Congress.
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@804thepeople.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 11:58 AM

Eye-opening🧵 about 🇺🇸 Western hero, #MaryHunterAustin
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@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 12:42 AM

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Mary Hunter Austin was born on this day in 1868 in Carlinville, Ill. She was a writer, feminist, environmental conservationist and champion of Indigenous rights. Her life was shaped by the high desert landscapes she loved and battles over our most precious resource: water. /1

Mary Hunter Austin, by Charles F. Lummis, ca. 1900. Austin’s early writing is celebrated for its rich, mystical prose documenting the flora, fauna and Indigenous people of the high desert. Her environmental activism and Indigenous rights advocacy were driven by a mix of personal isolation, a lifelong rebellion against social conformity, and deep immersion in the landscapes and cultures of the American West. Rather than viewing issues in isolation, she developed a unified philosophy that rejected human dominance over both nature and women. Today, she is recognized as a pioneer of ecofeminism, nearly a century ahead of her time. Her later work explores how the exploitation of nature and the marginalization of women are rooted in the same societal power structures.
@eddsmitty.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 11:51 PM

Well, one thing you can say about "Tapdancin' Tim Scott": he never turns down a chance to perform.

I mean, listen to him.

Some serious shuckin' & jivin' going on.

Dude's working hard for that butter biscuit. 🦝

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@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 12:37 AM

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Today in history, 1971: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts officially opens its doors and is inaugurated, culminating an initiative that began … in the 1950s? Yes, you read that right. The Kennedy Center got its start during the Eisenhower administration. /1

Rose Kennedy (left) and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (center right) stand in the presidential box alongside family members at the inaugural gala of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Sept. 8, 1971. The Center’s Opera House was filled to capacity, with 2,200 attendees. The high-profile guest list included three of President Kennedy’s sisters (Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith), alongside a crowd of prominent Washington politicians, international diplomats and cultural elites who paid up to $250 per ticket (roughly $1,900 today) to witness the historic premiere. A separate preview performance had been held three days prior on Sept. 5, where an additional 2,200 members of the general public were invited to see the dress rehearsal of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS so that everyday citizens could experience the venue before the formal gala crowd arrived.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 12:34 AM

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Today in history, 1916: President Wilson signs the Kern-McGillicuddy Act, giving federal employees workers’ compensation insurance. It established a comprehensive, no-fault federal program, leading the Supreme Court to greenlight state-level workers’ compensation systems. /1

President Woodrow Wilson signing a bill, 1916. The Kern-McGillicuddy Act of 1916 — officially known as the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act — is a landmark U.S. federal law enacted on Sept. 7, 1916. It established a comprehensive system of workers’ compensation for federal civil service employees who suffered wage loss due to job-related injuries or fatalities. The law was a cornerstone of Wilson’s progressive “New Freedom” domestic agenda, which aimed to support open competition and protect the rights of workers. It was named after its congressional sponsors: Senator John W. Kern (D-IN) and Rep. Daniel J. McGillicuddy (D-ME). Originally overseen by the independent Federal Employees’ Compensation Commission, the administration of the law was eventually transferred to the U.S. Department of Labor, where it remains active today. Photo credit: Alamy.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 6:32 PM

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Today in history, 1936: The last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) dies at the Beaumaris Zoo (Hobart Zoo) in Tasmania, Australia. Well, that history turns out to be a smidge inaccurate. Nevertheless, the thylacine went extinct 90 years ago. /1

Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1936. He had no way of knowing he was the one of the last two of his kind.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 11:36 PM

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Today in history, 1988: Lee Roy Young is sworn in as the first Black Texas Ranger. The Texas Rangers weren’t just segregated within their ranks. They had a history of enforcing white racial hegemony across the state. Young’s appointment altered the course of the agency’s history.

Lee Roy Young. Young Jr. was uniquely qualified to become the first African American Texas Ranger. As a direct descendant of the legendary Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, he carried the DNA of renowned frontier trackers. He grew up in segregated Brackettville, Texas, and learned to speak fluent Spanish — a skill that later proved invaluable in his work along the border. He mastered every tier of state policing — serving in Capitol Security, patrolling the border as a State Trooper and executing undercover operations in the Intelligence Division. Holding degrees in sociology and criminology, Young passed the rigorous written exams and oral boards multiple times, proving his placement was based on merit. Stepping into a 94-man force amid intense legal friction between the state and the NAACP, he resisted political distractions and let an unvarnished record prove his worth.
@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 3:53 PM

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“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. A movement is only people moving.”
— Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem. For more than half a century, she challenged entrenched systems of gender and power, bringing the fight for reproductive freedom, workplace equality and women’s rights into the American mainstream. Steinem linked the struggles of women with those of Black and Indigenous communities, emphasizing unity across the civil rights and feminist movements. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her lifelong dedication to human rights and equality. When she died on Sept. 2, 2026, at age 92, we lost not only a feminist icon but a tireless warrior for social justice.
@eddsmitty.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 11:21 AM

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🧵 The 1930 Watsonville Anti‑Filipino Riots is another forgotten chapter of American history. The violence that took place was disgusting. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont)

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calendar.eji.orgJan. 19, 1930 | White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, CaliforniaLearn more about our history of racial injustice.
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@bambooshooti.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 12:22 AM

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Amy Beach was born on this day in 1867 in Henniker, N.H. A pioneering composer and virtuoso pianist, she was the first American woman to compose and publish a large-scale symphony. Her work represents a triumph of talent over the oppression of marriage and Victorian society. /1

Amy Beach. Beach’s life was a masterclass in navigating the rigid boundaries of Victorian-era gender and social norms. Rather than rebelling openly, she strategically used the constraints placed upon her by her family, her husband and society to carve out a historic career. From her earliest years, Beach’s remarkable musical talents were met with deep parental anxiety rather than uncomplicated pride. In 1885, her marriage to Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach brought another set of strict mandates. Even after achieving technical mastery, Beach faced a musical world that was hostile to women creators. Through it all, she maintained a highly prolific output by channelizing her creative energy into composition, working through intense self-education, and capitalizing on a pivotal shift later in her life. Thanks to renewed appreciation for her work, Beach has successfully transitioned from a forgotten footnote in history back to her rightful title: the Dean of American Women Composers.