Looking toward the past to make sense of the present.
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After Vinegar Hill was demolished, the shiny new stores and apartments that were supposed to be built never materialized, and the once thriving black neighborhood remained empty for years buff.ly/2GTXcyP
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Turns out that whole work from home no security gig economy thing ain't new. timeline.com/how-nyc-tenemen…
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Thanks to @timeline_now for giving me the platform to share my mother’s early workplace snapshots. Link in bio if you want to see/read! #womenintheworkplace #woc #wocintheworkplace #timeline #vintagenyc #9to5life #9to5movie #ninetofive #officeculture #bl… ift.tt/2MFrhWb
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What if there was a remake of the #9to5Movie with all #WOC? Towards a history of women of color in the office – @Timeline_Now bit.ly/2sY074y
All hail the "Sun Queen!" She was a leader of sustainable technology starting in the 1930s. #womenintech timeline.com/woman-solar-pow…
Have any old photos of your mom at work? Send 'em our way! timeline.com/women-of-color-…
“We want to be in Atlantic City at the same time the hypocritical Miss America contest is being held. Theirs will be lily white and ours will be black.”
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"I didn’t concern myself that there weren’t any women in the game."
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"It is impossible to describe the U.S. as having been a full democracy for any more than five decades." timeline.com/white-politicia…
It's estimated that 5,000 people died building the Panama Canal. The reality is probably much higher. timeline.com/panama-canal-hu…
These immigrant workers were seen as "hotheaded, knife-wielding, overdressed, sex-hungry young men." Really, they just wanted fair pay for their back-breaking labor. timeline.com/filipino-worker…
The story of Central Park reminds us of why we should know the history of the places we love. What other much-loved spots have troubling origin stories? timeline.com/black-village-d…
100 years later, Johnson was pardoned for the "crime" of traveling across state lines with his soon-to-be (white) wife. Read his story here: timeline.com/when-a-black-fi…
He was the first black man in the NFL—which is now almost 70 percent black. Why doesn't he have a bust in the NFL Hall of Fame? timeline.com/kenny-washingto…
These photos of L.A. smog look a lot more like the apocalypse than pollution timeline.com/la-smog-polluti…
“We expected nothing from Republicans. We expected everything from Democrats.” But when anti-war protesters took on the Democratic establishment, blood ran in the streets of Chicago. timeline.com/when-the-resist…
The zoot suit was a direct rejection of the austerity and misery of the Great Depression, and became the target of thinly veiled racist attacks. buff.ly/2k4luME