Wait, I thought Eli Whitney who made the Cotton Gin was black? That was my first thought of BHM. Googled an imaged...its a fucking mayonnaise boy. Then this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/3hvp0r/anyone_else_remember_being_taught_that_eli/ Is this a case of the Berenstein/Bernstein Bears again? Alternate universe.
seriously, what the fuck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi127.htm
Whitney went to England and memorized, and essentially stole the plans and brought them back to the US. That doesn't sound like mobility a black man had in the 18th century.
I always though Langston Hughes had such an impact on the English language we speak today..great playwriter, poet..
This guy was the guy on Google window today in the search bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Fred Hampton doesn't get much press but he did a lot for Chicago's poor and was killed senselessly...RIP Fred!
York (1770–1822) was an African-American slave best known for his participation with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Enslaved by William Clark, he performed hard manual labor without pay, but participated as a full member of the expedition. Like many other expedition members, his ultimate fate is unclear. There is evidence that after the expedition's return, Clark had difficulty compelling York to resume his former status, and York may have later escaped or been freed, but nothing is entirely clear on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_(explorer)
