Daily Archives: February 10, 2019
To kick off a little Black History Month section – Harry Belafonte
Lena Horne doing a broadcast for Voice of America
An all-Black women battalion, US forces, who worked at a military postal sorting facility in England during WWII
Whites pulling a Black man off a public bus to beat him up during the 1943 race riots in Detroit
Segregation in the US, 1950s- Back door entrance and crappy seating for African-Americans at a movie theatre in the South
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing The Civil Rights Act into law, 1964
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis just a moment before being murdered
Sylvester as Coretta Scott King in “Tricia’s Wedding”, 1971
I came across this yesterday. Had no idea that Sylvester, gay male disco star and sometimes drag queen of the 70s and 80s, played Coretta Scott King in a movie. Have to see if I can find it somewhere!
MATTHEW'S ISLAND 