Thread by @Cajsa

Last year for #BlackHistoryMonth I tweeted about current history makers. Recently I have read about people who I have never heard of before and I majored in history. So I am going to spend the month talking about the forgotten history. #BlackHistoryMonth2020

Georgia Gilmore is shown here at Holt Street Baptist Church. She was fired from her job at the National Lunch Company for supporting the bus boycott. Big mistake! It freed her up to do more.

She founded the Club from Nowhere, a group of women who cooked and sold their sandwiches, chicken dinners, pound cake, and sweet tea to fund the Montgomery Improvement Association (the Montgomery Boycott) She was the only named officer to protect the other members.

The work of women who raised money to sustain the Civil Rights Movement is not very well-known, but Eyes on The Prize did an interview so you can hear and see this unsung hero
repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos…

Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;
Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing,
Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.

The second published woman poet in America was Black. Her name was Phillis Wheatley.
#BlackHistoryMonth

I'll be honest and confess she's not my favorite poet, I prefer blank verse and sonnets to couplets, but that's just me. Her poems show her strong classical education and her creativity, elements most people did not believe possible in the pre-revolutionary colonies

Her poem on being brought from Africa to America sucks, but I don't suppose she would have been published if she said it was a bad thing, After all, she was still enslaved when her poems were published, so it's not like she could write about the pain
poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-…