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Happy Black History Month!! This year we decided to cover 100 years of black history, highlighting melanated people, places, and events from all over the world. In this episode, we discuss the early 1900s to the 1940s. We examine a variety of topics including  the Harlem Renaissance, the Pan-African Conference, the wealthiest Black athlete of the early 1900s, the Spanish Civil War and so much more! Let us take you on an informational yet entertaining walk through melanated history by clicking on this episode!

Sources referenced in this episode

History Timeline Sites

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/jul/11/black-history-timeline

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history-timeline/

Early 1900s

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/pan-african-congresses-1900-1945/

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/kingdom-ashanti-formally-annexed-great-britain#:~:text=On%2025%20September%201901%2C%20the,Gold%20Coast%20management%20in%201897

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-unknown-story-of-the-black-cyclone-the-cycling-champion-who-broke-the-color-barrier-33465698/

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/fuller-meta-warrick-1877-1968/

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/haiti

1920s

https://www.cortland.edu/cgis/suzman/sa_timeline.html

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/rand-rebellion-1922

https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/articles-and-essays/timeline-of-african-american-history/1901-to-1925/

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/rand-rebellion-1922

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Rebellion

1940s

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/they-treated-us-royally-the-experiences-of-black-americans-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war