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Actually, it was the first time that I had been to the friggin’ Stonewall. The Stonewall wasn’t a bar for drag queens. Everybody keeps saying it was. The drag queen spot was the Washington Square Bar, at Third Street and Broadway. This is where I get into arguments with people. They say, “Oh, no, it was a drag queen bar, it was a black bar.” No, Washington Square Bar was the drag queen bar.
If you were a drag queen, you could get into the Stonewall if they knew you. And only a certain number of drag queens were allowed into the Stonewall at that time. I wasn’t in full drag that night anyway. I was dressed very pleasantly. When I dressed up, I always tried to pretend that I was a white woman. I always like to say that, but really I’m Puerto Rican and Venezuelan.
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I don’t know if it was the customers or if it was the police, but that night everything just clicked. Everybody was like, “Why the fuck are we doing all this for? Why should be chastised? Why do we have to pay the Mafia all this kind of money to drink in a lousy fuckin’ bar? And still be harassed by the police?” It didn’t make any sense. The people at them bars, especially at the Stonewall, were involved in other movements. And everybody was like, “We got to do our thing. We’re gonna go for it!”
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Suddenly, the nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters started flying. I threw quarters, and pennies, and whatnot. “You already got the payoff, and here’s some more!”
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From African Heritage City:
Three women from Guadeloupe, on Ellis Island, about 1910, by Augustus Sherman — with Lily Diane Robinson-Mann and Rose Cannon.(Source)
The next time you see someone with jewelry that says “trust no man,” don’t judge them for their “man hating” or “bougie” ways. Rather, commend them for their superb taste in music.
“Trust no man” is actually a reference to a reference to a 1926 song of the same name by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, a Georgian and African-American pioneer of blues music.
I want all you women to listen to me
Don’t trust your man no further than your eyes can see
I trusted my man with my best friend
But that was a bad bargain in the end
A feminist before there was really a term for it, Rainey was also notorious for getting into trouble with small-town authorities over her “women-only parties.” She was a brazen lady-lovin’ badass well-worthy of a 21st century signal boost.
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.
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Representative Carrie Meek’s shirt reads: “A women’s place is in the House and the Senate.”
Carrie Meek (b. April 29, 1926) wore this prophetic T-shirt in the Florida House chamber in 1980, where she served from 1978 to 1983. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Senate. Meek later served in the United States Congress (1992-2001). Prior to her career in politics, she taught at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
Meek’s son, Kendrick Meek (b. September 6, 1966), was the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 17th congressional district from 2003 to 2011. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2010 Senate election for the seat of Mel Martinez, but he and Independent Charlie Crist lost in a three-way race to Republican Marco Rubio.
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On January 17th, 1938, Chicana feminist writer and activist Martha Cotera was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. Educated in Texas, Cortera began her career as a librarian in El Paso and quickly became involved with organizing in the Latino community, including the farmworkers movement. She was a pivotal figure in the Raza Unida Party that formed in Texas and she is one of the founders of the Texas Women’s Political Caucus. Cotera also wrote two books, Diosa y Hembra: The History and Heritage of Chicanas in the U.S and The Chicana Feminist, focusing on the history and role of women inside Chicano culture, including activism, and their contributions to and struggles within the US women’s movement of the 1970’s.
For more on Cotera, check out this interview she gave to the University of Michigan about her life as a Chicana feminist on the frontlines on social justice movements.
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March 31, 1927: Cesar Chavez is Born.
On this date the Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez was born. Together with Dolores Huerta, Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (today known as the United Farm Workers), which represented about 50,000 laborers during the 1970’s.
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”
Cesar Chavez, March 31, 1927 - April 23, 1993.
Para todos los Latinos, nunca devemos olvidarnos que con esfuerzo y valentia todo es possible. Oh en las palabras del gran Cesar Chavez, “Si se Puede!”
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