Homosexuality and the Left Before 1960
Political activism of queer people in the United States started long before the Stonewall riots in 1969. One surprising place that queer people found a home for their activism was in the Communist Par...
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Sophonisba Breckinridge
Sophonisba “Nisba” Preston Breckinridge, born April 1, 1866, was a woman of firsts. Breckinridge was the first woman admitted to the Kentucky bar to practice law in 1895; the first woman to earn a PhD...
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Susie King Taylor
usie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of family members, she was educated and escaped, joining the Union army at the age of 14, to serve ostensibly as a laundress, b...
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The Jackson State Shootings in May 1970
Just after midnight on May 15, 1970, officers opened fire on a group of unarmed students milling in front of a dorm on the campus of Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi, killing two and woun...
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Knitting Brigades of World War I
Between America’s entry into World War I and the end of the war less than two years later, Americans knit 23 million articles of clothing and bandages for soldiers overseas, directed by the American R...
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Introducing Unsung History
A podcast about the people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet. With host Kelly Therese Pollock.In each episode of Unsung History I’ll start us out with a short narrative a...
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