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CuriPowThe Inspiration for CuriPowToday I'm going to do something a little different. I wanted to share with you all my inspiration for starting CuriPow...2018-08-0206 minCuriPowAngel IslandAngel Island Immigration Station, formerly the United States Immigration Station an Angel Island, was the principal immigration facility on the West Coast...2018-07-2802 minCuriPowFor Display OnlyInformation about the first Chinese immigrants to the United States is generally difficult to acquire...2018-07-2802 minCuriPowSeismic ActivityIn 1977 veteran geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person became the fir black director of NEIC...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowMicroscopic DiscoveriesAlbert Baez immigrated from Mexico to the United States when he was still a child...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowFlying First ClassIn 1958 Ruth Carol Taylor became the first black flight attendant...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowI Am A Anarchist And A RadicalLucy Parsons was an early socialist activist of color...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowBefore Modern PesticidesTo combat insects such as lice, the Paiute and Shoshone of the Great Basin, washed their hair in a hot infusion...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowThe Motorcycle Queen of MiamiBessie Stringfield was the first Jamaican American woman to ride across the United States solo...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowShining StarAs the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong used her fame to challenge racism and stereotypes...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowRecognition For Saving LivesCarlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban American epidemiologist discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by mosquito...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowThe Philippine Independence ActThe Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called the Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act, was a U.S. statute that provided for Philippine Independence...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowBlack GoldNative Americans were known to have sunk pits into the ground to extract oil more than 400 years before Edwin Drake drilled and oil well in 1859...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowAir EngagementIn 1917, Eugene Bullard became the first and only black combat pilot to fly during WWI...2018-07-2800 minCuriPowUnited States v. Wong Kim ArkIn 1898, Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese American, won a landmark Supreme Court case...2018-07-2801 minCuriPowTwenty One Black WomenIn 1821 21 black women met in New York to draw up plans for the African Dorcas Society...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowBusiness MogulIn 1846 William Leidesdorff opened the first hotel in San Francisco...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowMen Of SteelIn 1863, construction began on the transcontinental railroad-1,776 miles of tracks...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowAhead Of Its TimeThough Scotsman Alexander Wood is credited with inventing the syringe in 1873...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowCaribbean RecruitmentBetween 1881 and the beginning of WW I, the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowIntellectually SpeakingIn 1897 The American Negro Academy was founded...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowThe Language Lives OnFar from being a dead or obscure language, Garifuna is a living, vibrant and growing language...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowWindy CityJean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, born in St. Marc, Sainte-Dominique (now Haiti) was a black pioneer trader...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowThe Foreign Miner TaxIn addition to prospecting for gold in California, many Chinese also came as contract laborers to Hawaii...2018-06-2101 minCuriPowChanging Hearts and MindsIn 1820, The Emancipator was the first anti-slavery magazine...2018-06-2100 minCuriPowTurtle IslandNorth America (the United States and Canada) was originally known as Turtle Island...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowThe Niagara MovementIn 1905 Twenty-nine black intellectuals and activist from fourteen states met near Niagara Falls, New York...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowThe Jones-Shafroth ActIn 1917, President Woodrow Wilson sign the Jones-Shafroth Act which made the residents of Puerto Rico American citizens...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowSikkarOn a 1,000-year-old pottery vessel found in Guatemala, a Maya man is shown smoking a roll of tobacco leaves tied with a string...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowThe Apostle of The Cuban RevolutionSometimes called the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution, José Martí was born in Havana...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowThe First WaveOn April 18, 1975, less than two weeks before the fall of Saigon, President Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowTaking FlightIn 1933 Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round trip transcontinental flight...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowThe Few, The ProudIn 1942 black Marines were first enlisted but were placed on inactive status...2018-06-1601 minCuriPowBefore The PillRecorded instances of Native American women taking contraceptives dates back to the 1700's...2018-06-1100 minCuriPowIn Rain, Sleet or SnowIn 1891 Minnie Geddings Cox was the first black postmistress in the United States...2018-06-1101 minCuriPowGold MountainThe first Asian immigrants to come to the U.S. in significant numbers were the Chinese in the middle of the 19th century...2018-06-1101 minCuriPowThe Real McCoyIn 1872 Elijah McCoy patented the first version of his lubricator for steam engines...2018-06-1100 minCuriPowLights, Camera, ActionIn 1916 The Lincoln Motion Picture company was the first movie company organized by black filmmakers...2018-06-1100 minCuriPowEarly PioneerPhilip Jaisohn arrived in the U.S. in 1885 as a political exile...2018-06-1101 minCuriPowChocolate ERIn 1891 Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois was the first African American hospital owned and operated in the US...2018-06-1000 minCuriPowRed light, Green lightGarrett Morgan, a brilliant inventor, and business man was the first to patent a 3-way automatic traffic signal...2018-06-1000 minCuriPowThe Forgotten SamuraiYasuke was Japan's first samurai of black African origin...2018-06-1001 minCuriPowThe 6888thIn 1945 more than seven hundred enlisted members of the 6888th Women's Army Corps Battalion were sent to England...2018-06-1001 minCuriPowThe Chinese Exclusion ActIn 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only US law to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race...2018-06-1001 minCuriPowPea IslandIn 1880 The Pea Island, North Carolina Lifesaving Station was the first and only all black Coast Guard facility...2018-06-1000 minCuriPowWave RunnerDuke Kahanamoku came to be known as the father of international surfing...2018-06-1001 minCuriPowIntellectually SpeakingIn 1895 W.E.B. Dubois was the first black to receive a doctorate from Harvard University...2018-06-0700 minCuriPowInto The StarsEllen Ochoa made history in 1993 when she boarded the space shuttle Discovery...2018-06-0700 minCuriPowFighting For Your RightsPatsy Takemoto Mink was the first women of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...2018-06-0701 minCuriPowBefore Tucker There Was PattersonIn 1915 Frederick D Patterson was the first black man to build cars between 1915 - 1919...2018-06-0701 minCuriPowNo Glass CeilingsIn 1922 Bessie Coleman was the first black woman to earn a pilot's license...2018-06-0701 minCuriPowUnknown HeroDr. Feng Ho single-handedly saved thousands of Austrian Jews during the Holocaust...2018-06-0601 minCuriPowAcross The Finish LineLatest episode of CuriPow2018-06-0601 minCuriPowWorld TravelerMirza Mohammad Ali was a famous Iranian American world traveler and political activists...2018-06-0601 minCuriPowChinatownBecause they were forbidden from integrating into mainstream society, the first Chinatown's were born out of necessity...2018-06-0601 minCuriPow"Si se puede"In 1962, the union leader and activist co-founded the first successful farm workers union...2018-06-0601 minCuriPowStagecoach MaryIn 1885 Mary Fields also known as "Stagecoach Mary", was the first African-American woman star route mail carrier...2018-06-0501 minCuriPowBy Any MeansIn 1886, Cathay Williams, who later altered her name to William Cathay...2018-06-0500 minCuriPowPolitical PioneerDalip Singh Saund made history in 1956 when he became the first Asian elected to Congress...2018-06-0501 minCuriPowThe Tide of the TurbansSouth Asian Indian immigrants also entered the United States as laborers, following Chinese exclusion Act of 1882...2018-06-0501 minCuriPowLeading The WayAnandi Gopal Joshi was a pioneer who graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the class of 1886...2018-06-0501 min