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The Inspiration for CuriPow
Today I'm going to do something a little different. I wanted to share with you all my inspiration for starting CuriPow...
Aug 02, 201806:28
Angel Island
Angel Island Immigration Station, formerly the United States Immigration Station an Angel Island, was the principal immigration facility on the West Coast...
Jul 28, 201802:05
For Display Only
Information about the first Chinese immigrants to the United States is generally difficult to acquire...
Jul 28, 201802:21
Seismic Activity
In 1977 veteran geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person became the fir black director of NEIC...
Jul 28, 201801:14
Microscopic Discoveries
Albert Baez immigrated from Mexico to the United States when he was still a child...
Jul 28, 201801:32
Flying First Class
In 1958 Ruth Carol Taylor became the first black flight attendant...
Jul 28, 201801:13
I Am A Anarchist And A Radical
Lucy Parsons was an early socialist activist of color...
Jul 28, 201801:37
Before Modern Pesticides
To combat insects such as lice, the Paiute and Shoshone of the Great Basin, washed their hair in a hot infusion...
Jul 28, 201801:27
The Motorcycle Queen of Miami
Bessie Stringfield was the first Jamaican American woman to ride across the United States solo...
Jul 28, 201801:27
Shining Star
As the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong used her fame to challenge racism and stereotypes...
Jul 28, 201801:45
Recognition For Saving Lives
Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban American epidemiologist discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by mosquito...
Jul 28, 201801:45
The Philippine Independence Act
The Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called the Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act, was a U.S. statute that provided for Philippine Independence...
Jul 28, 201801:35
Black Gold
Native 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...
Jul 28, 201801:27
Air Engagement
In 1917, Eugene Bullard became the first and only black combat pilot to fly during WWI...
Jul 28, 201800:53
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
In 1898, Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese American, won a landmark Supreme Court case...
Jul 28, 201801:21
Twenty One Black Women
In 1821 21 black women met in New York to draw up plans for the African Dorcas Society...
Jun 21, 201801:03
Business Mogul
In 1846 William Leidesdorff opened the first hotel in San Francisco...
Jun 21, 201801:03
Men Of Steel
In 1863, construction began on the transcontinental railroad-1,776 miles of tracks...
Jun 21, 201801:35
Ahead Of Its Time
Though Scotsman Alexander Wood is credited with inventing the syringe in 1873...
Jun 21, 201801:08
Caribbean Recruitment
Between 1881 and the beginning of WW I, the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean...
Jun 21, 201801:01
Intellectually Speaking
In 1897 The American Negro Academy was founded...
Jun 21, 201801:03
The Language Lives On
Far from being a dead or obscure language, Garifuna is a living, vibrant and growing language...
Jun 21, 201801:05
Windy City
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, born in St. Marc, Sainte-Dominique (now Haiti) was a black pioneer trader...
Jun 21, 201801:32
The Foreign Miner Tax
In addition to prospecting for gold in California, many Chinese also came as contract laborers to Hawaii...
Jun 21, 201801:07
Changing Hearts and Minds
In 1820, The Emancipator was the first anti-slavery magazine...
Jun 21, 201800:50
Turtle Island
North America (the United States and Canada) was originally known as Turtle Island...
Jun 15, 201801:19
The Niagara Movement
In 1905 Twenty-nine black intellectuals and activist from fourteen states met near Niagara Falls, New York...
Jun 15, 201801:07
The Jones-Shafroth Act
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson sign the Jones-Shafroth Act which made the residents of Puerto Rico American citizens...
Jun 15, 201801:54
Sikkar
On 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...
Jun 15, 201801:15
The Apostle of The Cuban Revolution
Sometimes called the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution, José Martí was born in Havana...
Jun 15, 201801:51
The First Wave
On April 18, 1975, less than two weeks before the fall of Saigon, President Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees...
Jun 15, 201801:57
Taking Flight
In 1933 Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round trip transcontinental flight...
Jun 15, 201801:10
The Few, The Proud
In 1942 black Marines were first enlisted but were placed on inactive status...
Jun 15, 201801:07
Before The Pill
Recorded instances of Native American women taking contraceptives dates back to the 1700's...
Jun 11, 201800:57
In Rain, Sleet or Snow
In 1891 Minnie Geddings Cox was the first black postmistress in the United States...
Jun 11, 201801:05
Gold Mountain
The first Asian immigrants to come to the U.S. in significant numbers were the Chinese in the middle of the 19th century...
Jun 11, 201801:55
The Real McCoy
In 1872 Elijah McCoy patented the first version of his lubricator for steam engines...
Jun 11, 201800:54
Lights, Camera, Action
In 1916 The Lincoln Motion Picture company was the first movie company organized by black filmmakers...
Jun 11, 201800:53
Early Pioneer
Philip Jaisohn arrived in the U.S. in 1885 as a political exile...
Jun 11, 201801:20
Chocolate ER
In 1891 Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois was the first African American hospital owned and operated in the US...
Jun 10, 201800:59
Red light, Green light
Garrett Morgan, a brilliant inventor, and business man was the first to patent a 3-way automatic traffic signal...
Jun 10, 201800:54
The Forgotten Samurai
Yasuke was Japan's first samurai of black African origin...
Jun 10, 201801:15
The 6888th
In 1945 more than seven hundred enlisted members of the 6888th Women's Army Corps Battalion were sent to England...
Jun 10, 201801:02
The Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only US law to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race...
Jun 10, 201801:06
Pea Island
In 1880 The Pea Island, North Carolina Lifesaving Station was the first and only all black Coast Guard facility...
Jun 10, 201800:55
Wave Runner
Duke Kahanamoku came to be known as the father of international surfing...
Jun 10, 201801:44
Intellectually Speaking
In 1895 W.E.B. Dubois was the first black to receive a doctorate from Harvard University...
Jun 07, 201800:50
Into The Stars
Ellen Ochoa made history in 1993 when she boarded the space shuttle Discovery...
Jun 07, 201800:57
Fighting For Your Rights
Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first women of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...
Jun 07, 201801:07
Before Tucker There Was Patterson
In 1915 Frederick D Patterson was the first black man to build cars between 1915 - 1919...
Jun 07, 201801:26