#African American museum

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The east side needs help restoring the African American museum!!!

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Benjamin F. Hardy (July 25, 1921-1994) was an African-American custom motorcycle builder who made the Captain America and Billy choppers for the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie Easy Rider.

The Captain America bike, made from a then 20-year-old, heavily customized Harley-Davidson panhead is considered one of the most iconic motorcycles ever built.

Working with another African motorcycle builder, coordinator Cliff Vaughs, Hardy built two 'Billy' bikes and three 'Captain Americas', one of which was destroyed in the making of the movie, the rest of which were stolen. Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. The 'Billy' bike was typical of the custom motorcycles Black bikers were riding at the time.

Hardy and Vaughs remained largely unknown and uncredited for 25 years as they were not accepted due to being African-Americans, and were not welcomed into the mainstream motorcycle world in the USA.

Known locally as "Benny" and "King of Bikes" Ben Hardy's Motorcycle Service was located at 1168 E. Florence in Los Angeles. He was a mentor to many of the local motorcyclists in South Central, Los Angeles.

His work was featured in the “Black Chrome” exhibition at the California African American Museum

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Today was a Good day …

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The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM), central New Jersey's first and only Black history museum, is thrilled to welcome three leading African American women to its Board of Trustees this year.

[huntingtonnow]

Fundraiser to Benefit Huntington's African American Museum

A fundraiser set for Saturday will benefit the nascent Huntington African American Museum. Panelists, including Denice Evans-Sheppard, director of the Oyster Bay Historical Society; Dr. Jermaine Archer, professor of African American studies at SUNY Old Westbury; and Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, director of the Eastville Historical Society, will discuss African American history on Long Island. Joye…

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When you do a 30 plus teams tour of Washington DC, aka "The District", visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture

[alwaysbewoke]

Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro" He married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit. In the late 1700's, Jean-Baptiste was the first person to establish an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what would become the city of Chicago. Historic documents confirm that his property was right at the mouth of the Chicago River. Many people, however, believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago, and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. But the truth is that the Kinzie family purchased their property from a French trader who had purchased it from Jean-Baptiste. He died in August 1818, and because he was a Black man, many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in 1912, after the Great Migration, a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home. Later in 1913, a white historian named Dr. Milo Milton Quaife also recognized Jean-Baptiste as the founder of Chicago. And as the years went by, more and more Black notables such as Carter G. Woodson and Langston Hughes began to include Jean-Baptiste in their writings as "the brownskin pioneer who founded the Windy City." In 2009, a bronze bust of Jean-Baptiste was designed and placed in Pioneer Square in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile. There is also a popular museum in Chicago named after him called the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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Mars Dust, Alma Thomas, 1972

Acrylic on canvas 69 ¼ × 57 ⅛ in. (175.9 × 145.1 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

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Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Autumn Landscape" (1890-1891) Oil on canvas Located in the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

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National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

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Wedding Dress of Lollaretta Pemberton Allen 

Pictured with her groom, Grover Allen

1939

National Museum of African American History & Culture

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Lt. Uhura’s Starfleet uniform, worn by Nichelle Nichols

Afrofuturism exhibit, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Georgetown Corner in the Rain, Bernice Cross, 1934

Photo credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WorldOkapiDay :

Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917–2017) Okapi, 1991 Cotton, wool, buttons, wire, Kapok batting 14 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. Portland Art Museum 1993.26

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When Frustration Threatens Desire (1990). Kerry James Marshall.