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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Feb 5, 2020, 10:50 AM Feb 2020

From the U.S. Army’s 1st & only ever bicycle division, the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps in 1897

To the shoe-shine boy’ who left America in the 1930s to become the Commander of the Ethiopian Air Force

Some outstanding and memorable moments in Black history and LGBT history:

http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/13-Things-I-Found-on-the-Internet-Today-Vol.-CDLXXXVIII.html

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13 Things to kick off Black History Month and LGBT History Month (Original Post) packman Feb 2020 OP

Really enjoyed the older pictures from early to mid 20th century. Fla Dem Feb 2020 #1

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1. Really enjoyed the older pictures from early to mid 20th century.

Wed Feb 5, 2020, 11:41 AM

Feb 2020

Gives a different perspective to the Black history of that period.