I recorded this 9 years ago. “The citizens of the Southern states were willing to fight and die to preserve a morally repugnant institution.” Slavery. Shout out to the US Army (with 179k Black soldiers) for destroying slavery, freeing 4m from bondage, and saving the USA! Huzzah!
On this day in 1944, General Anthony McAuliffe of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division gives a famously succinct reply to a German ultimatum demanding the surrender of Bastogne: "Nuts!"
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Also, at the same @ABWHTruth 2022 symposium, I went to reintroduce myself to Debra Grey White because I fan girl everytime I see her, she simply laughed and said, "I know who you are Le'Trice." That made my whole life! #abwh2022 symposium was just life changing.
For today’s Saturday Showcase, we celebrate ABWH’s National Membership Director, @eboninerd! Donaldson’s University of Akron lecture, “Soldier, Diplomat, and Civil Rights Leader Charles Young,” recently aired on @cspanhistory! Congratulations!
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In October, I had the absolute pleasure to give University of Akron 's Knepper Distinguished Lecture in History. Today it airs on C-Span2's American History Lecture series. am so geeked at having one of my childhood dreams coming true. #SBMS#ABWH@cspanhistory@uakron@HNetWar
It is still mindblowing to me that I created and I now the series co-editor of this series. The goal is to change the narrative and push the boundaries of our traditional understandings of what it means to be a soldier in the Black Diaspora.
We are accepting proposals
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Today in 1918, at Bailleul in France, British troops of the Middlesex Regiment man a barricade in the face of German troops advancing during the Battle of the Lys. #OnThisDay#WW1@I_W_M Q 6531 / https://t.co/xQI6bUfZIe
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