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@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:27 AM

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Today in history, 1977: A millionaire Harvard lawyer spends eight hours shoveling horse manure in Ocala, Fla. He called it a campaign strategy. Floridians called him their next Governor. His name was Bob Graham, and he soon became one of the nation’s most respected politicians. /1

Florida State Senator Bob Graham works as a “pooper scooper” at Ocala Breeders’ Sales, Oct. 9, 1977. Graham worked for 100 days at different jobs around the state during his first campaign for Governor. The Workdays concept began by chance in 1974 while Graham was serving in the Florida State Senate. As Chairman of the Education Committee, he openly criticized the quality of civic education in Florida schools. A frustrated high school teacher, Sue Reilly, dared him to try teaching a class himself. Graham accepted the challenge and spent a semester teaching civics at Carol City High School. He later designated this experience as his official “Workday #1,” and used it to make funding for school construction a top legislative priority. He realized that immersion was the most effective way to understand the reality of his constituents’ lives and translate that into political action. The Workdays program became a signature strategy throughout Graham’s political career.

@gentlystream.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:28 AM

Thank you @bambooshooti.bsky.social for highlighting the contributions of visionary women. #ResistanceRoots

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:31 AM

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Mary Engle Pennington was born on this day in 1872 in Nashville, Tenn. She was a pioneering bacteriological chemist, food scientist and refrigeration engineer who developed the “cold chain” of food safety. Every time you buy fresh food or open your fridge, thank Dr. Pennington. /1

Mary Engle Pennington in 1940. Dr. Pennington’s legacy is woven into the fabric of modern food systems and public health. As a chemist and engineer, she took a chaotic, unregulated and often lethal food supply network and engineered it into a secure, predictable system. Every time we open a modern home refrigerator, buy a fresh carton of milk or eat frozen foods shipped across continents, we are benefiting from her research and development. Before her work, bacterial contaminants in unrefrigerated food were a death sentence for American children. With the distribution of 1.5 million free domestic safety bulletins, she taught an entire nation how to properly cool and zone food. Pennington also battled systemic gender discrimination, not with loud protests, but with bulletproof, undeniably superior empirical data. We owe a debt of gratitude to this brilliant, soft-spoken Quaker who quietly saved millions of lives by keeping food cool. Photo credit: Smithsonian Institution.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:49 AM

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Archibald Motley was born on this day in 1891 in New Orleans. He was a visual artist, modernist painter and a giant of the Chicago Black Renaissance. His diverse body of work carries a common theme: forcing the world to view people of color with dignity, nuance and respect. /1

Archibald Motley Jr. in 1929. Motley was a trailblazing visual storyteller who revolutionized how the global Black diaspora is represented in fine art. He mastered European classical techniques to uplift Black bodies, and helped the world “hear” jazz on canvas. He refused contentment and stood for uncompromising visibility. Whether documenting the working class of Chicago’s Bronzeville, the marginalized communities of Mexico or the harrowing racial traumas of the Civil Rights Movement, Motley’s brush always fought for human empathy. He rejected abstract art — even when it cost him his financial stability — because he refused to abandon his mission to celebrate the Black body. Today, Motley is recognized not just as a regional chronicler, but as an architect of 20th-century American modernism. His work continues to influence generations of contemporary artists. Photo credit: Collection of Dr. Mara Motley and Valerie Gerrard Browne / Chicago History Museum.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:47 AM

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Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura was born on this day in 1925 in Gallup, N.M. He is known for being the only soldier whose Medal of Honor was classified Top Secret while he was held as a POW. His story is one of patriotism, bravery, loyalty and humble service against incredible odds. /1

Hiroshi Miyamura was a Staff Sergeant. This photo was taken after Miyamura’s repatriation during Operation Big Switch in August 1953. After spending 28 months as a prisoner of war, he crossed the Demilitarized Zone into the U.N. command center at Panmunjom’s Freedom Village for medical processing, debriefings and transition out of the theater as a newly released POW. Miyamura’s Medal of Honor citation does not adequately express his dedication and self-sacrifice. His acts of courage were focused entirely on protecting his men. During his 28 months as a POW, he grieved over those he believed were lost and felt guilt for failing to protect them. After receiving the Medal of Honor, he viewed himself as its custodian, stating that he wore it not for himself, but on behalf of all the men who never made it home. When he died in November 2022, he was buried with full military honors next to his beloved wife, Terry, leaving behind a legacy of humility and quiet citizenship.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:37 AM

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Today in history, 1945: A strike by some 10,500 craft workers in the Conference of Studio Unions turns bloody when strikers battle police, studio guards and replacement workers. The conflict directly contributed to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Hollywood Blacklist. /1

Warner Bros. Studio firefighters turn high-pressure hoses on picketers on Hollywood Bloody Friday (also called “Black Friday”), Oct. 5, 1945. Studio police on studio rooftops also dropped tear gas canisters on the striking workers. Bloody Friday didn’t just crush the Conference of Studio Unions. It demonstrated that the fear of communism could be used to silence dissent and neutralize organized labor. By framing a dispute over wages and working conditions as a “Soviet plot,” studio executives wrote the playbook used by the House Un-American Activities Committee and paved the way for the Hollywood Blacklist. It helped corporate lobbying groups convince Congress that unions had grown too powerful, violent and radical. This accelerated the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which permanently weakened the legal power of organized labor. Ultimately, a two-hour violent confrontation created the blueprint for corporate dominance that still influences American labor today.

@resiztersband.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:56 AM

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@williamhaugh.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:12 AM

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@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:20 PM

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Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1

Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:30 PM

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“What the people want is very simple — they want an America as good as its promise.”
— Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan, ca. 1972-78. She spoke these words during a commencement address to graduating students at Harvard on June 16, 1977, focusing on civic life, ethical leadership and democratic responsibility.

@eddsmitty.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:12 AM

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🧵 In July 1967, 19-year-old PFC Robert L. Hunt Jr. (below) returned home on leave to Cairo, IL. Hours after being arrested, he was found hanged in a jail cell.

The ruling: suicide.

Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont)

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@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:46 AM

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Today in history, 1949: WERD, the first Black-owned radio station in the U.S., opens in Atlanta. Launched to give Black citizens a dedicated, independent voice in a segregated media landscape, the station became a vital command center for the growing Civil Rights Movement. /1

Jesse Blayton Jr., General Manager of WERD, in the station’s studio, 1949. WERD became the accidental blueprint for modern Black media, proving that financial independence and cultural fluency are tools for social liberation. The station’s DJs pioneered fast-talking, rhythmic, rhyming “patter” over musical tracks. This style redefined the disc jockey profession and was later adopted by mainstream white radio. By sharing a physical building with the SCLC, WERD provided MLK with a direct, unfiltered pipeline to the public. The station circumvented hostile white corporate media and kept the community safe, unified and organized. WERD’s financial success proved that a Black-owned enterprise could thrive in the heart of Jim Crow segregation without relying on white institutional approval. It forced the corporate white establishment to respect and reckon with the economic and political power of Black consumers and creators.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:52 AM

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Margaret Chung was born on this day in 1889 in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was a medical doctor and philanthropist who shattered racial, gender and social norms in the first half of the 20th century. Her life was defined by her unique role as a military recruiter during WWII. /1

Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung. Chung rewrote the rules of what an Asian American woman, a physician and a civilian could achieve in 20th-century America. She broke institutional barriers in education and medicine, revolutionized healthcare access for marginalized women, and bridged the divide between Western medicine and traditional Chinatown cultures. Operating outside formal government channels, she built a massive, cross-branch network of military personnel, Hollywood icons and politicians. She served as a clandestine recruitment and vetting resource for the U.S. military. Her behind-the-scenes lobbying helped expand women’s right to serve in the U.S. armed forces. She was also a trailblazing queer icon who proved that strategic brilliance and unwavering patriotism could force even most conservative systems of her era to honor her.

@eddsmitty.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 1:30 AM

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🧵 Nov. 11, 1909, Cairo, Illinois was the site of one of the most violent lynchings in American history. A mob not only lynched William James—a White man was lynched as well.

Yep. A double lynching.

Pull up a seat🪑.(cont)
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@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:44 AM

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Today in history, 1904: A train filled with white, Catholic orphans pulls into Clifton, Ariz. Enraged that the children are being adopted by Mexican American families, a white mob abducts the children from their new homes at gunpoint and redistributes them to white families. /1

Some of the Irish Catholic orphans who arrived by train in Clifton, Ariz., in 1904. The Arizona Orphan Abduction of 1904 remains one of the most explosive and revealing chapters in the history of race relations and family law. The aftermath permanently altered the trajectory of child welfare. The Supreme Court ruling codified race as the most critical factor in child placement, cementing the doctrine that non-white parents had no legal right to raise a white child. The case normalized a practice in which social workers matched children to parents based on racial categories, a standard that lasted into the late 20th century. Eastern charities drastically scaled back sending children to western territories, shifting instead to localized, legally sterile foster systems. The children stolen in Arizona never returned to New York and never saw their Mexican mothers again. They grew up as white Protestants, their identities rewritten by a flashpoint of frontier racial panic.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:04 AM

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Ann Jarvis was born on this day in 1832 in Culpeper, Va. She was a social activist who became a driving force for public health and community reconciliation during and after the Civil War. Her work inspired her daughter to create Mother’s Day, although she later opposed it. /1

Ann Jarvis. Jarvis’s activism was driven by civic and religious duty and personal tragedy. Several of her children died in early infancy, largely due to the preventable diseases that ran rampant through Appalachian border towns. Rather than retreating into despair, Jarvis channeled her loss into a determination to ensure other mothers would not have to endure the same heartbreak. Her work began as a public health education effort that transitioned to caring for sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War. After the war, she focused on community reconciliation driven by a maternal desire to stop the cycle of violence. (Editorial note: It was difficult to find a photo of Ann Jarvis. There are many pictures of her daughter Anna, and many are mislabeled. However, I traced this one to a German-language Wikipedia page and to a History of American Women page that shows pictures of Ann and Anna side by side. I’m fairly certain this is legit.)

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 12:37 AM

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Today in history, 1951: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice begin a three-day assembly in Washington, D.C., with a march and silent vigil on the White House lawn. More than 132 Black women from 14 states arrived in the capital to demand federal action against racial terror. /1

Members of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gather during their initial mobilization, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, 1951. More than 132 African American women from 14 states descended on the nation’s capital to demand an end to racial violence, Jim Crow laws and the systemic oppression of Black women. While the poor quality of the photo makes it difficult to pinpoint every face from left to right, several core organizers and notable figures are prominent in the center-front cluster: Louise Thompson Patterson, Charlotta Bass, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Other trailblazing figures who participated in the Washington, D.C., delegation included legendary activist Mary Church Terrell, journalist Claudia Jones and a young Lorraine Hansberry, who read the group’s manifesto aloud during the convention.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:41 AM

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The fight for universal healthcare may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from President Truman’s failed proposal for a national, publicly funded health insurance system in 1945. However, the fight goes back to the 1910s, and it’s linked to anti-labor forces. /1

President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress. On Nov. 19, 1945, Truman sent a groundbreaking Special Message to Congress recommending a comprehensive national health program. His five-part strategy included constructing hospitals and health centers, expanding public health services, investing in medical research and education, providing cash benefits and disability insurance to workers, and prepaid national health insurance. The American Medical Association launched a campaign against it, condemning the plan as “socialized medicine” and comparing it to communism during the early years of the Cold War. By 1946, “conservative” Repubs controlled both houses of Congress and blocked the bill. Truman tried again with subsequent messages to Congress, but the legislative effort ultimately failed. Truman later called this defeat the most troubling disappointment of his presidency. Photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 11:46 PM

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Joseph Henry Sharp was born on this day in 1859 in Bridgeport, Ohio. A classically trained painter, he was captivated by the Southwest and focused on documenting tribal cultures and individual personalities. He became known as the Spiritual Father of the Taos Society of Artists. /1

Joseph Henry Sharp, ca. 1900. Sharp was a masterful visual historian and the visionary catalyst for New Mexico’s global art standing. His deafness, which began in childhood, became a professional asset, allowing him to bypass linguistic barriers to earn the trust of Indigenous models who rejected other white portraitists. Operating with a sense of urgency, yet treating his subjects with patience and respect, Sharp preserved the faces of a generation of Native Americans whose ways of life were under assault. His collection of more than 7,000 Western works, including his portraits of Little Bighorn survivors, stands as an irreplaceable historical archive. Sharp also set off the chain of events that birthed the Taos Society of Artists, transforming an isolated mountain village into an international powerhouse of American fine art.

@bambooshooti.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:37 PM

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“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”
— Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow, 1954. Murrow made this statement during his See It Now television broadcast on Senator Joseph McCarthy, March 9, 1954. Murrow’s decision to confront McCarthy on national television took immense journalistic courage at a time when fear was the dominant social currency. Photo credit: UPI / Bettmann / Corbis.