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1958 US Nat'l Championship NY. USIA records, NARA ID 58260.

#OTD 1957: Althea Gibson Wins Wimbledon! 1st Black Tennis Player to win a Grand Slam! By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

See DocsTeach: Althea Gibson Wins the US Nat'l Championships.

Gibson, L, on the Wheaties box in 2001. Serena Williams, R, in 2019.

"In 2001, Wheaties paid homage to a true champion and an icon by putting her on the cover of a Wheaties Box. Althea Gibson was the FIRST Black Woman tennis player to be on the box. Today, I am honored to be the second."

"I have dreamt of this since I was a young woman and it’s an honor to join the ranks of some of America’s most decorated athletes. I hope my image on this iconic orange box will inspire the next generation of girls and athletes to dream big." ---Serena Williams.

From Harlem, Gibson became a champion of the very segregated sport of tennis. She was the first Black tennis player to compete and win at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (Arthur Ashe was the first Black man to win at Wimbledon 8 years later, in 1975).

#BLM #black women #african american history #tennis #wimbledon #althea gibson #blackgirlmagic #herstory #black lives matter #civil rights #womenshistory #tennishalloffame #grandsllam #sporthistory #women in sports #blackwomen #blackgirlsrock #archivesblackeducation #Youtube #docsteach #serena williams #wheaties

[pogphotoarchives]

Valdera Elvira Roberts, daughter of William and Mary Slaughter, Santa Fe, New Mexico. First African American graduate of Santa Fe High School, class of 1902.

Date: 1934 Negative Number 111081

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[steamship-historical-society]

Learn about racial tensions in Detroit, the fight to desegregate the SS Columbia, and how this episode in history paves the way for Thurgood Marshall’s victory in Brown vs. Board of Education: https://shiphistory.org/2020/06/19/desegregating-the-ss-columbia/ Image: The SS Columbia logbook for the day Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Ray was asked to leave the boat because of the color of her skin, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesBlackEducation #BlackHistoryMonth #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7BxpDHHOD/?igshid=1gg0nagn85eir

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[kheelcenter]

To celebrate #ArchivesBlackEducation we wanted to highlight the work of organizer, educator, and international labor advocate Maida Springer Kemp of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Kemp started working as a finisher with Local 22 of the Dressmakers’ Union in NYC and moved up in the union becoming executive board member, chairman of the education committee and shop representative. In 1942, Kemp was appointed as education director of Local 132, the Plastic Button and Novelty Workers’ Union focusing on educating new membership of mostly refugee, recently released prisoners, women and minority union members. Kemp became the first black woman to represent American labor abroad when the AFL sent her to England in 1945 and the first black business agent of Local 22 in 1947. Through her international work, she developed training programs for girls, designed leadership workshops for trade unionists, studied workers’ education in Sweden and Denmark, and secured funds for labor centers including the Solidarity House in Nairobi. Kemp received many awards and honors during her lifetime and was a member of numerous organizations including the NAACP, National Organization of Women (NOW), the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the National Council of Negro Women, and the Urban League. Kemp speaking during a Dress Strike, 1958. Kemp studying production methods at the Cooperative Wholesale Society’s clothing factory in Bristol, England, undated. Kemp meeting with Japanese Trade Unionists, undated. Kemp meeting at the African American Labor Center highlighting their work with trade unions in thirty-five African countries. Manager William Ross of the Philadelphia Dress Joint Board hands Kemp a check for $10,000 to help finance a training school for garment workers. [#6199005p #5780P #5780102P #5780PN45 #ILGWU #UniteHere Photographs #KheelCenter, #ILR, #Cornell #ArchivesHashtagParty] #blackhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CK6l9RQJwIx/?igshid=1j202lw6wj1ab

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[riversidearchives]

Teacher standing at the chalk board [Jan. 1954].

#ArchivesBlackEducation

Photograph by Milton Snow. Part of a series of photos taken at Navajo schools, Winter 1953-54.  

Series: Central Classified Files, 1924 - 1954. Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999. (National Archives Identifier 295145). 

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[steamship-historical-society]

Learn about the difference between primary and secondary sources using the case study of the first black owned and operated steamship company the Black Star Line. This lesson, for grades 6-12 and college level, can be used in the classroom or at home for remote learning. Check it out here: https://shiphistory.org/2020/01/20/the-black-star-line/ or click the link in our bio for lessons. This lesson was written in conjunction with North Central Texas College History Professor Brittany Hancock based on her article, “Marcus Garvey’s The Black Star Line: Hopes, Dreams, and The S.S. Yarmouth,” which appeared in the Journal of Caribbean History 52, vol. 1. Images: The S.S. Yarmouth, renamed Frederick Douglass, was the Black Star Line’s first ship. From the R. Loren Graham Collection, SSHSA Archives. Scrapbook entry, dated May 12, 1920, Lochhead Collection, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesBlackEducation #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistory #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFc9NNHRMW/?igshid=edysq57cysxp

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[steamship-historical-society]

The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. When the line went out of business in 1962 after 122 years of existence, it was the last surviving overnight steamship passenger service in the United States. In addition to regularly calling on Baltimore and Norfolk, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company at various times provided freight, passenger and vehicle transport to Washington, D.C., Old Point Comfort, and Richmond, Virginia. Images: Longshoremen working for the Old Bay Line, c. 1947, SSHSA Archives. #BlackHistoryMonth #ArchivesBlackEducation #blackshiphistory (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMvG3KnDeq/?igshid=1tpo218saait9

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