Good morning POU Family! The morning open threads will continue discussing the Women's Club Movement. Lydia Flood Jackson (June 6, 1862 – July 8, 1963) was an American businesswoman, suffragist, and clubwoman. Lydia Flood was born in Brooklyn, California now annexed to Oakland, California. Her mother was Elizabeth Thorn Scott and her … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Women’s Club Movement
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Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Centenarians
Good morning POU family! This week's threads will celebrate black folks who live to be 100 years old and their lifetime accomplishments. Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 – August 11, 2005) was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who lived past their 100th … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Centenarians
Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Painters
Good morning POU! It's Wednesday. This week's theme is about African-American painters. Enjoy! Rose Theodora Piper (October 7, 1917 – May 11, 2005) was an American painter best known for her semi-abstract, blues-inspired paintings of the 1940s. In the 1950s, out of financial necessity, she became a textile designer. For nearly thirty years, she worked as Rose Ransier, … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Painters
Wednesday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Chester Commodore (August 22, 1914 – April 10, 2004) was an African-American cartoonist, both of political cartoons and comic strips. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Commodore was always interested in drawing. His parents and sisters moved to Chicago in 1923, but Chester and his older brother stayed in Racine with his maternal grandmother in her boarding house until he moved to … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.[ He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. In August 2011, writing in his blog, Dean stated that he now … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators